Dr. Lisa Abendroth is a Fulbright Specialist who collaborated with Universitas Islam Internasional Indonesia (UIII) from April 13 to 28, 2026.

Her engagements through various capacity building activities involved the university leaders, faculty, staff, and students across four faculty divisions, namely Economics and Business, Education, Islamic Studies, and Social Sciences. They focused on four main areas, such as digital transformation and AI equity, institutional strategy and curriculum innovation, teaching quality and pedagogical advancement, and intercultural competence and human-centered culture.

Dr. Abendroth is the Hoffman Melrose Toro Endowed Professor of Marketing Innovation at the Opus College of Business, University of St. Thomas in Minneapolis, MN, USA. She founded the Business in a Digital World initiative after previously serving as Associate Dean of Graduate Program Innovation and Faculty Director for the Part-Time MBA program. She teaches innovative courses on Emerging Technology in Business, Foresight and Digital Transformation, Modern Business Mindset, Preparing for Change, and Marketing Management. In mid-2026, she will bring 23 MBA students to Seoul and Tokyo for a new course entitled Bold Futures: Digital Transformation in Asia. Her Ph.D. in Marketing is from Duke University.