Business schools play a critical role in developing future leaders capable of addressing climate change and other complex global issues. Yet, management education continues to be dominated by weak sustainability paradigms rooted in conventional, anthropocentric business models. This study explores the potential of bioinspired approaches as a lens for teaching responsible management aligned with strong sustainability paradigm. Based on an exploratory qualitative study, Brazilian specialists and participants engaged in bioinspired practices such as biomimetics, biomimicry, biothinking and bioleadership were interviewed to understand such potentiality. Findings indicate that bioinspired approaches foster key leadership competencies, such as systemic thinking, empathy, and adaptability, while promoting deep personal transformation and alignment with regenerative values. Despite the current absence of such content in MBA curricula, especially in Brazil, this study identifies barriers and enablers for integrating bioinspired approaches into business education. The paper's innovation is primarily thematic, applying and reinterpreting a well-established concept from other fields into the domain of management education, aiming to develop leadership aligned with strong sustainability — rarely explored in this context. By highlighting opportunities to reimagine pedagogy, curriculum, and leadership development through a biocentric lens, this research contributes to global discussions on responsible management education and offers insights with international applicability.