A rendering of the new Rick Goings Institute for Management and Executive Leadership at Rollins College, expected to open within the next year, adjoined to the Rollins Museum of Art as part of the college’s broader Innovation Triangle initiative.
The Rick Goings Institute for Management and Executive Leadership points to a broader shift at Crummer: preparing leaders to exercise judgment in an era of AI, complexity, and constant change.
Poets & Quants for Executives recently featured the Rick Goings Institute for Management and Executive Leadership at Rollins College, highlighting its vision for a new kind of leadership education — one built for executives leading through complexity, disruption, and rapid technological change.
The Institute, founded through a $10 million seed commitment from Rick and Susan Goings, brings together business discipline, liberal arts depth, peer learning, and AI fluency to help senior leaders develop what may be the most essential capability of the modern executive: judgment.
That same emphasis is increasingly central to the Crummer Graduate School of Business experience.
As artificial intelligence reshapes how organizations analyze information, solve problems, and make decisions, technical expertise alone is no longer enough. Leaders must be able to interpret ambiguity, challenge assumptions, earn trust, communicate clearly, and act responsibly when the answer is not obvious.
The Poets & Quants article notes that the Rick Goings Institute will operate as a separate LLC owned by Rollins College, with Dr. Anil Menon, Dean of the Crummer Graduate School of Business, serving as CEO. It also features Rick Goings, former CEO of Tupperware Brands and founder of the Institute, and Grant Cornwell, President Emeritus of Rollins College and Chairman of the Institute’s Board of Advisors.
For Crummer, the Institute reinforces a broader direction in graduate business education: preparing leaders not simply to manage better, but to think, decide, and lead with greater judgment in a world being reshaped by AI, institutional mistrust, global volatility, and accelerating change.
As the Institute’s own positioning states, “Most executive education teaches leaders to manage better. The Rick Goings Institute helps leaders judge better.”
That distinction matters — not only for senior executives, but for MBA students preparing to lead in organizations where human judgment, trust, communication, and adaptability are becoming more valuable, not less.
Read the full Poets & Quants for Executives article here:
Explore Crummer’s MBA programs and discover how Rollins is preparing leaders for a more complex business world.
