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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.

Managing Difficult Faculty and Staff – A Bootcamp for Leaders

As a supervisor or leader, responding to difficult faculty or staff is some of the most stressful but rewarding work you can do—if you can do it right. Addressing difficult behavior in those who work for you can transform your team from closed off and avoidant to effective and collaborative. But how do you do this work?    Join us for a four-week, online bootcamp to learn how to effectively manage difficult behaviors on your team while still leading with empathy. This unique experience will allow you to:    Don’t miss out on the special opportunity to participate in a small-group feedback session, which is included in this program. You’ll meet with your instructor and a small group of other participants, so that you can workshop potential solutions you can use to manage your difficult colleague. These sessions are not recorded, which gives you time and space for talking confidentially and candidly about the situations that trouble you the most.  It can take years to perfect the art of managing difficult faculty or staff when you’re doing it on your own. Participate in this bootcamp, and jump-start the process to give yourself a leg up on the most taxing part of your […]

Inclusive Leadership Certificate Program: Build Your Skills and Self-Awareness – January Cohort

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. 

Inclusive Leadership Certificate Program: Build Your Skills and Self-Awareness – September Cohort

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. 

Inclusive Leadership Certificate Program: Build Your Skills and Self-Awareness – June Cohort

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.