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Academic Innovation
Advancing growth and culture change requires participation from all levels of leaders. Traditional change management theory would have us believe there are two ways to effect change: bottom-up or top-down. We help organize expertly designed visioning, planning, and working sessions that bring together leaders from all levels of the institution to help you create a sense of urgency, push through resistance, challenge existing assumptions, and tap into fresh thinking and bold, inspirational ideas.
- Individual Leadership Skill Development
Looking ahead 5-10 years, what are the specific skills and abilities your leaders will need to guide your institution successfully into the future? We focus on equipping individual leaders with the skillsets they need to lead differently.
- Practical & Applied
Drawing on 20+ years of leadership expertise and a trove of design thinking techniques and group collaborative practices, we craft engagements that will not only train your leaders but help you get the work done.
- A Scalable Approach
Whether you’re convening a small senior team or leading a strategic planning effort with a group of hundreds, our approach is scalable across group sizes.
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How We Help
Our work is designed to help with the following kinds of efforts:
Organizational Transformation
You might be a President charting a new course for your institution and needing your leadership team to level up their strategic thinking & decision-making skills to support it. You might be a Research or Faculty Affairs leader charged with elevating the research profile of your institution, and you need to encourage a culture of creativity and entrepreneurial thinking among your faculty to support it. Or you might be a division leader whose area recently underwent budget cuts, and whose team desperately needs to break out of a zero-sum, scarcity mindset to work differently. Whatever the circumstance, we help support and further large-scale organizational transformation efforts.
Visioning Sessions
You may be a new Dean who needs to formulate a vision for your College in an input-driven, collaborative way that also garners support for your leadership. You may be a Chair whose department has grown significantly in recent years, to the point where a new vision and mission statement is needed. Or you may be a division leader whose area recently merged with another, and you need everyone to unite around a common vision. We help organize visioning sessions that are designed to inspire, align, build community, and move your work forward in productive ways.
Strategic Planning
With the amount of leadership turnover in higher education today, many institutions have been through numerous strategic planning processes in recent years and are disillusioned about the process. We help craft creative, integrated approaches to strategic planning that have staying power, encourage ownership, and build trust within the institution, college, or division.
Leadership Retreats
A well-designed one- or two-day retreat can do wonders to build trust and momentum within a leadership team. We regularly work with leaders to design and facilitate customized, tailored retreats that maximize the time you have together.