The Business Simulation Blog

Takeaways from the CESIM Elite Instructor Workshop 2026, featuring keynote speaker Dr. Tawnya Means.

At this year's CESIM Elite Instructor Workshop, keynote speaker Dr. Tawnya Means opened with a question that reframes almost every conversation happening in higher education right now. When we ask how to prepare students for a world of AI, we usually reach for the obvious answer: teach them the tools. Run a prompt-engineering workshop. Offer a certification. But according to Means — founder and Principal at Inspire Higher Ed, co-founder and Chief Academic Officer of AdvancAI Higher Ed, and author of The Collaboration Chronicle: Human+AI in Education — the students themselves are asking for something else.

Professor Luis Fernando Balarezo, head of the business simulation laboratory at Universidad Señor de Sipán (Peru), shares his experience using Cesim Business Simulations in his courses. From their multidisciplinary approach to their impact on students' practical understanding, he explains how simulations help connect theory with decision-making in real-world business environments.