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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: 

Building an In-House Leadership Development Program in Higher Education

Academic Impressions has helped more institutions to develop in-house leadership programs than any other organization in higher education, and in this flagship two-day event, we’ll share what we’ve learned over 15 years of developing leaders and supporting in-house programs. Whether you are simply dipping your toe into the leadership space for the first time, or you’ve run a successful cohort-based program for years, we’ll share a wealth of resources, methods, and approaches that you can implement right away to develop the next generation of leaders at your institution. Our Approach   Adaptable: We have intentionally designed our program to explore multiple ways to develop leaders. Whether this is accomplished via one-off programs, cohort programs, or something in between, we’ll show you how our frameworks, models, and content can be adapted to fit your needs. Human-centered: In addition to sharing proven leadership resources, special attention will be paid to ensuring that your programs center inclusivity and develop innovative and forward-thinking leaders. Hands-on and Experiential: To help guide you in making critical decisions, we’ll share a workbook we’ve built through 15 years of working with institutions to develop their leadership programs. You’ll also experience firsthand a variety of tools and activities you can integrate into […]

Building an In-House Leadership Development Program in Higher Education

Academic Impressions has helped more institutions to develop in-house leadership programs than any other organization in higher education, and in this flagship two-day event, we’ll share what we’ve learned over 15 years of developing leaders and supporting in-house programs. Whether you are simply dipping your toe into the leadership space for the first time, or you’ve run a successful cohort-based program for years, we’ll share a wealth of resources, methods, and approaches that you can implement right away to develop the next generation of leaders at your institution. Our Approach   Adaptable: We have intentionally designed our program to explore multiple ways to develop leaders. Whether this is accomplished via one-off programs, cohort programs, or something in between, we’ll show you how our frameworks, models, and content can be adapted to fit your needs. Human-centered: In addition to sharing proven leadership resources, special attention will be paid to ensuring that your programs center inclusivity and develop innovative and forward-thinking leaders. Hands-on and Experiential: To help guide you in making critical decisions, we’ll share a workbook we’ve built through 15 years of working with institutions to develop their leadership programs. You’ll also experience firsthand a variety of tools and activities you can integrate into […]

Building Mid-Career Faculty Capacity: A Summit for Faculty Affairs Leaders

Mid-career faculty often experience stagnation and dissatisfaction due to unclear career paths, increasingly complex research and scholarship, and a lack of leadership training. How can faculty affairs leaders help support and reengage mid-career faculty even in a charged and financially strained higher education landscape? If this is a question you are grappling with on your campus, join us to learn how to design actionable, integrated, and career-advancing professional development that helps mid-career faculty thrive. To preserve an intimate and productive experience, this summit is capped at 30 attendees.

Leading from the Middle: Essential Skills to Drive Success

Leading from the middle is a complex task. You must understand, communicate, and operationalize strategy while staying attuned to the needs and expectations of your supervisor, your team, and the other partners with whom you collaborate.   Join other experienced middle and senior managers to explore such critical topics as leveraging your scope of influence, deepening your self-awareness, building effective relationships, and understanding the intersection of agency and followership. We’ll use our leadership framework to guide you from personal mastery to interpersonal and team mastery, helping you to:  

Building an In-House Leadership Development Program in Higher Education

Academic Impressions has helped more institutions to develop in-house leadership programs than any other organization in higher education, and in this flagship two-day event, we’ll share what we’ve learned over 15 years of developing leaders and supporting in-house programs. Whether you are simply dipping your toe into the leadership space for the first time, or you’ve run a successful cohort-based program for years, we’ll share a wealth of resources, methods, and approaches that you can implement right away to develop the next generation of leaders at your institution. Our Approach   Adaptable: We have intentionally designed our program to explore multiple ways to develop leaders. Whether this is accomplished via one-off programs, cohort programs, or something in between, we’ll show you how our frameworks, models, and content can be adapted to fit your needs. Human-centered: In addition to sharing proven leadership resources, special attention will be paid to ensuring that your programs center inclusivity and develop innovative and forward-thinking leaders. Hands-on and Experiential: To help guide you in making critical decisions, we’ll share a workbook we’ve built through 15 years of working with institutions to develop their leadership programs. You’ll also experience firsthand a variety of tools and activities you can integrate into […]

Alumni Boards: Strengthen Your Strategy and Grow Engagement

Supporting your alumni board and providing a meaningful volunteer experience means having a clear direction regarding your board’s structure, culture, and purpose. And getting the board to buy-in to that strategy early on will create a smoother process for all. Whether you’re building a strategy for a new board or refreshing your approach to board engagement, this two-day in-person workshop will provide a comprehensive A-to-Z approach, so that you can design, recruit, and drive engagement with your alumni boards. You will learn how to increase the effectiveness of your alumni board and its member involvement through tips and activities on: The closing activity is one you can’t miss! It’s designed to bring your whole workshop experience together and help you create your very own board strategy roadmap. To best set you up for the workshop experience, bring your board’s bylaws, policies, membership rosters and/or other governance documents, and we’ll evaluate and refine them together.