Event Category: Workshop

Rethink Campaign Leadership: A Workshop for Senior Fundraising Executives

Running a successful fundraising campaign isn’t just about following best practices or implementing the latest consultant-driven strategies. It’s about leading with purpose, aligning your team, and forging strong partnerships across campus—all while navigating complex and ever-changing challenges.   This two-day workshop is designed exclusively for senior fundraising leaders ready to move beyond conventional campaign playbooks. Here, the focus isn’t on crafting another set of strategic pillars—it’s about sharpening your leadership approach, strengthening team dynamics, and building the cross-campus support essential for long-term success.   If you’re working toward unprecedented fundraising goals and finding that some strategies are clicking while others fall short, this is the space to explore why. Through candid discussions, expert facilitation, and peer collaboration, you’ll gain deeper insight into your campaign’s key challenges and leave equipped with practical solutions and a personalized roadmap for driving transformative results.   Come prepared to challenge assumptions, rethink strategies, and redefine what’s possible for your campaign—and for your institution.   Why Attend?   This experience offers a rare opportunity to step back from the day-to-day and focus on big-picture strategies that will ensure your campaign’s success. Specifically, you’ll:   Enhance your leadership, ignite fresh ideas, and collaborate with peers who understand your challenges and share your vision.  […]

Creating a Service Excellence Training Program for Your Campus

Check back for new dates soon! With traditional-aged college enrollment declining and hybrid formats posing ongoing challenges, higher education leaders are facing unprecedented pressure. To tackle these issues, many institutions are adopting service excellence to create a campus-wide “culture of care” that enhances both student and employee experiences, driving retention. Join this conference to: Register 3 or more people and enjoy a team discount of more than $1000, automatically applied at checkout!Limited to just 30 attendees for a focused and productive experience.

Leading Your Development Officers: The Art and Science of Developing High-Performing Teams

Are you ready to lead your development officers with clarity, purpose, and confidence—empowering them to exceed fundraising goals while helping to support a positive culture of philanthropy at your institution? Development officer leaders play a pivotal role in driving institutional success through philanthropy, but many find themselves unprepared for the complexities of managing high-performing teams. Whether stepping into the role unexpectedly or grappling with the ever-evolving demands of their position, these leaders need the tools, strategies, and insights to lead with impact.  Why Attend? This workshop addresses the unique challenges facing leaders of development teams, equipping you with the strategies to: To preserve an intimate and productive experience, this workshop is capped at 30 attendees.

Identifying and Evolving Beyond Dysfunctional Team Dynamics

Interpersonal interactions, communication patterns, and outcomes can be key indicators of team dysfunction. It’s easy to identify a dysfunctional team when all three of these elements break down completely, but what if only one or two aspects are suffering? Join us in person to learn how to identify dysfunctional team dynamics and to practice strategies to shift towards a more productive and high-performing culture.  What you’ll learn more about: 

Ingenious Leadership: Leading Complex Change on Campus

Join us for an immersive, two-day face-to-face conference designed to equip you with the skills and strategies to become an Ingenious Leader. Developed in collaboration with Melissa Morriss-Olson, the author of Ingenious Leadership, this event is your gateway to learning the skills required to push the boundaries of higher education.  You’ll gain: To preserve an intimate and productive experience, this conference is capped at 30 attendees. 

Driving Institutional Strategy as a Chief Strategist or Chief of Staff

The Chief of Staff/Chief Strategy Officer plays a crucial role in addressing critical issues facing an institution, yet they often have a more solitary professional experience than other Vice Presidents and Cabinet members—many times, working through influence rather than via large divisional and organizational chart purview. Join us for this one-of-a kind in-person experience, where you will build community, develop resources, and deepen your understanding of the critical issues facing higher education.

Advanced Leadership Development in Higher Education

Higher education is facing several disruptive trends, which means as a leader, you need to make substantive—not incremental—change.  If this feels like a difficult task, join us for this one-of-a-kind program that will help you to explore how you can lead for the impact you desire.  In this three-day program, you’ll explore how to combat the following three types of barriers that make change difficult to implement:  Hundreds of higher ed leaders—many of them current presidents, provosts, and deans—have attended this program since 2012. We’ve recently redesigned this experience to address the current and upcoming disruptive trends facing higher education. Register now to reserve YOUR spot. This conference is capped at 30 attendees to preserve an intimate and productive experience.  Optional Executive Coaching: One of the benefits of this conference is that you’ll walk away with several big ideas that you can implement to drive impact on your campus. Consider adding Executive Coaching—which includes six sessions with a coach who has extensive experience in higher education—so that you have a partner to help you think through how to implement those big ideas after the conference. 

Provost Summit 2: Anchoring Innovation in Your Institution’s Culture

This exclusive event is a follow-up to our Provost Summit: Leading for Innovation and Growth, and it’s designed to help you identify ways you can cultivate a campus culture that embodies innovation and sustains change over the long haul.  Specifically, you’ll discuss how to:  This event brings Provosts together for a powerful experience that blends peer connection, personal leadership development, and actionable strategies that you can bring back to your campus. Hear real-world examples of how other institutions have successfully cultivated an innovative culture, and walk away empowered to do the same on your own campus. Attend this event and you’ll leave with an expanded network of other Provosts who are equally invested in thinking outside the box.     To preserve an intimate and productive experience, this conference is capped at 30 attendees. 

Leading Into the Future: A Strategy Summit for Provosts

In today’s rapidly changing higher education landscape, Provosts and Chief Academic Officers must lead with greater clarity, creativity, and collaboration. This highly interactive two-day summit offers a focused space to step back from day-to-day operations and think strategically about your institution’s future. You’ll explore your leadership style using the Five Paths to Leadership® framework, identify areas of distinction worth deeper investment, and learn practical strategies for fostering innovation, aligning teams, and building a culture of trust and experimentation. Designed for a small cohort of senior academic leaders, the summit will also address how to more effectively recruit and support Deans, lead change collaboratively, and position your academic enterprise for long-term success. You’ll leave with renewed vision, actionable tools, and a clear plan to move your campus forward.

Empowering Innovation: A Deep Dive into Design Thinking Facilitation

Join us for an immersive, two-day, face-to-face conference designed to equip you with the skills and strategies to become a dynamic Design Thinking facilitator. Developed in collaboration with Academic Impressions and Virginia Commonwealth University’s da Vinci Center, this event is your gateway to mastering the art of innovation leadership.  What you’ll gain: 

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