Practical AI services for business program leaders.
Diffusion Higher Ed helps deans and academic chairs develop useful tools, anticipate implementation hurdles, and equip their faculty and leadership teams to continue independently.
AI Strategy & Readiness
Clarify priorities, anticipate stakeholder concerns, and define a practical path forward.
Who it’s for: Deans, provosts, and business department chairs who need a focused roadmap before committing resources.
Delivered remotely through structured working sessions with your academic leadership team.
Potential deliverables (scoped to your institution):
Specific tools and deliverables are agreed upon during initial scoping based on your program’s needs.
- Priority business program use cases and pilot candidate identification
- Faculty readiness analysis and student adoption considerations
- Governance questions and documentation preparation for institutional review
- Phased implementation roadmap with designated institutional owners and milestones
Intended Outcome
A clear, practical strategy tailored to your business school's mission, with immediate next steps your leadership can act on.
AI Toolkit & Capability Engagement
Develop reusable tools with your team and equip them to adapt and extend them independently.
Who it’s for: Business program leaders, curriculum committees, and faculty leads ready to build hands-on capabilities.
Hands-on collaboration: we build the tools together and train your faculty and leads to continue without us.
Potential deliverables (selected and tailored during scoping):
Specific tools and deliverables are agreed upon during initial scoping based on your program’s needs.
- Assignment-design tools and prompt frameworks for core business disciplines
- Rubric and assessment templates with visible-thinking checkpoints
- Curriculum-mapping tools aligned with business learning outcomes
- Faculty guidance resources, sample course policies, and classroom guardrails
- Implementation trackers, documentation, and recorded walkthrough demonstrations
- Hands-on remote working sessions teaching your team to adapt and build new tools with AI
Intended Outcome
Your team leaves with practical tools tailored to your workflows and the skills to create, refine, and maintain them independently.
Launch Advisory
Targeted remote guidance during early rollout to review progress and refine tools.
Who it’s for: Institutions rolling out their redesigned business tools who want experienced oversight during rollout.
Specific session count, turnaround expectations, and fixed end date agreed in advance (no open-ended retainers).
What is included:
Specific tools and deliverables are agreed upon during initial scoping based on your program’s needs.
- Scheduled remote working sessions with Dr. Blake Wettstein to review early implementation
- Direct troubleshooting for faculty adoption hurdles and student integrity questions
- Iterative refinement of your assignments, rubrics, and assessment instruments
- Preparation of documentation and evidence for ongoing institutional review
Intended Outcome
Experienced guidance during the critical early semester of implementation, keeping your timeline and academic standards on track.
Tangible assets and independent skills
Every engagement is bounded by a defined scope and clear handoff. Your institution receives concrete materials tailored to your curriculum:
A practical implementation plan
Tied directly to your business program's strategic priorities, course inventory, and accreditation timeline.
Selected tools tailored to your workflows
Assignment templates, rubrics, and curriculum trackers built specifically for your faculty's teaching context.
Training to adapt and extend with AI
Hands-on instruction so designated faculty and leaders know how to prompt, build, and evaluate new materials themselves.
Documentation for institutional use
Clean guides, recorded demonstrations, and review frameworks that support ongoing faculty onboarding and institutional review.
A defined handoff to your team
A clean conclusion where your institution takes full ownership of the materials and leads ongoing rollout independently.
Partnership expectations
Lasting capability requires institution-led ownership. Participating business programs commit to:
Designate an internal lead
An academic chair, program director, or faculty lead who acts as the primary contact and project owner.
Provide relevant materials and feedback
Share existing course outlines, learning objectives, and timely feedback on draft tools.
Make policy and approval decisions
Internal governance, syllabus policies, and curriculum committee approvals remain solely your institution's authority.
Lead faculty participation and implementation
Engage your faculty in working sessions and coordinate classroom rollout across your course sections.
Maintain tools after handoff
Your team owns the continued use, iteration, and local maintenance of the delivered tools and documentation.
Keynotes & Executive Briefings
A grounded, dean-led perspective on AI capability building for academic audiences.
Conferences, academic retreats, faculty development days, and trustee briefings.
Included elements
- Keynote address or remote executive briefing tailored to business education
- Practical lessons from real-world business program AI integration
- Interactive Q&A on faculty adoption, academic integrity, and employer expectations
- Optional follow-on breakout discussion with academic leadership
Session outcome
A candid, hype-free perspective that cuts through the noise and provides academic leaders with actionable orientation.
Ready to explore an engagement fit?
Let’s discuss your business program’s goals, implementation hurdles, and whether a focused remote engagement makes sense.