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The Sage path in The Five Paths to Leadership® is fundamentally about integration and balance—it’s the practice that helps you to access all the other paths with intention and wisdom. This session will expand upon your knowledge of how the Sage helps with self-awareness, reflection, and adaptive leadership, transforming the shadow into wisdom and leading under pressure.
Often in higher education, individuals move into a supervisory role without the necessary tools and skills to be successful. Particularly in today’s challenging environments, effective supervision is key to building an effective culture where each individual can contribute to team success. Join us online for a four-week cohort based program leveraging both asynchronous and synchronous learning specifically designed for higher education supervisors who are new to their roles, looking to deepen their skills, or for those who aspire to supervisor roles. Once you have completed the asynchronous modules of the course, you’ll receive your digital badge and certification. For the most comprehensive experience, we recommend you also attend the live sessions or watch recordings of them to learn some additional tips and skills in feedback and career growth.
Trust is fragile in academia, and culture is always forming. For academic leaders, the question is not whether a culture exists, but whether it is being shaped with intention. This workshop equips department Chairs, Deans, and academic leaders with a clear framework for building and sustaining healthy unit cultures rooted in transparency, accountability, and psychological safety. You’ll model a culture-building exercise you can bring back to your departments while exploring the leadership behaviors that most powerfully influence team norms. By identifying the common enemies of trust—such as inconsistency, avoidance, and perceived favoritism—you’ll also develop practical strategies to strengthen credibility and fairness. The result: Teams that are more resilient, collaborative, and capable of navigating change together. To preserve an intimate and productive experience, this workshop is capped at 30 attendees.
You already understand how, foundationally, the Five Paths increases self-awareness at various leadership levels. This session will take what the Five Paths teaches in terms of self-awareness and the nuances of personal, interpersonal and team leadership to situate them within one of the most common, and sometimes frustrating settings we all work within—meetings.
As a Five Paths Facilitator, you already understand the basics of how to debrief scores or how there are natural tensions across the different paths. In this session, we’ll dive deeper into the nuance of how paths work together, how natural tensions manifest, and how to talk about intersection patterns.
Effective leadership is inclusive leadership. When our colleagues feel they can show up authentically in all aspects of their identities and contribute without fear of repercussion, we’re building stronger teams and stronger organizations. But this doesn’t happen automatically—it takes time, intention, and continuous learning and growth. Our Inclusive Leadership Certificate Program: Build Your Skills and Self-Awareness is designed as a first step on that journey. Academic Impressions’ leadership model takes a holistic approach to leadership across four key dimensions: self-awareness and personal development, interpersonal leadership skills, team development, and leading at the organizational level. This program takes you on a deep dive into self-awareness and personal development to help you to become a more inclusive leader. You can participate individually or with your team in this 4-week program, which explores four key questions: Each week includes resources and practical strategies to help you to lead more inclusively. The course culminates in a draft of your inclusive leadership philosophy which you can use as a guide in the future—because this work does not end with the conclusion of the program.
As a President or Advancement Vice President, you play a critical role in shaping the environment that attracts significant and sustained philanthropic investments. You’re also likely aware of the value of a lifelong donor and the importance of attracting entrepreneurial-minded donors, both of whom want to make a difference to society through your institution. Join us in Denver for this two-day summit with fellow executive leaders, to learn how a strategic fundraising approach, paired with strong institutional leadership, can cultivate a thriving culture of philanthropy. Specifically, you will: Bring your Board Chair to create alignment around shared priorities and decision-making! Institutions who register their President and Vice President of Advancement can bring their Board Chair for free. Contact operations@academicimpressions.com to take advantage of this offer. To preserve an intimate and productive experience, this workshop is capped at 30 attendees.
Join us for this summit, which equips Provosts and Chief Academic Officers to lead strategic, culture-shaping change in an increasingly complex higher education landscape. You’ll explore a practical framework for diagnosing barriers to change, deepen your self-awareness of your leadership approach, and learn strategies for aligning senior teams around shared institutional purpose. Through applied tools, peer reflection, and case studies from our partners, you’ll examine how trust, collaboration, and innovation can be intentionally cultivated. The workshop culminates in concrete action planning to help you mobilize your teams and lead proactively toward a more sustainable and future-ready institution. To preserve an intimate and productive experience, this workshop is capped at 30 attendees. Save by registering your Provost and an aspiring Provost. Registering as a pair is $2000 a seat. To take advantage of this deal, please email operations@academicimpressions.com.
Earn the only customer service certification built for higher/post-secondary education. In just four weeks, this blended course will equip you with practical tools to improve service culture, support front-line teams, and handle challenging interactions with empathy and professionalism. With guided reflection and peer discussion, you’ll apply what you learn directly to your campus role—no matter your department or title.
As a Dean or other academic leader, you hold numerous responsibilities, and fundraising is likely a critical part of your portfolio. You’re probably also finding the philanthropic landscape more competitive than ever, as donors are becoming more selective with their giving. To be a successful fundraiser, it is therefore more important than ever to understand how to align your interests with those of donors seeking to make significant societal differences. Academic leaders and their development counterparts will benefit from this workshop as you: To preserve an intimate and productive experience, this workshop is capped at 30 attendees. Attend as a Dean and development officer pair and save! Register two people to get a special price of $2000 a seat. Please email operations@academicimpressions.com to take advantage of this offer.
