Higher Education

HIGHER
EDUCATION

We understand the internal and external pressures you are facing today and how the unique intricacies, challenges, complexities, and stressors within Higher Education distinguish it from any other sector.

THE SERVICES

OUR SERVICES ARE LED BY COACHES AND FACILITATORS WHO HAVE EXTENSIVE EXPERIENCE WORKING WITH LEADERS IN HIGHER EDUCATION. CONTACT US TO LEARN MORE OR TO GET STARTED.

Executive Coaching

Addressing executive challenges, organizational behaviors, and effective leadership.

Executive and Senior Leader Evaluations

Performance reviews and robust assessment feedback processes.

Strategic Planning

Facilitating strategy analysis, goal setting, and action plans with resource integration.

Team Building

Supporting effective, high functioning executive and management teams.

Leadership Development

Fostering emerging to senior level managers.

Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, & Belonging

Developing, supporting, and improving campus initiatives.

COACHING CULTURE

Develop a feedback-friendly, coaching-based culture throughout your organization.

Retreat Facilitation

Designing and guiding successful and productive faculty and administrative meetings.

Program Assessment

Establishing program measurement and analysis tools and systems.

Core Skills for Coaching: Higher Education teaches Higher Education leaders how to leverage coaching skills to improve their leadership impact. Participants cultivate the mindfulness, listening, and curiosity skills that will help them build trust, develop better relationships, and improve the performance of their team members. Specifically, participants learn how to:

• Increase employee engagement
• Improve performance
• Foster innovation, creativity, and proactive problem solving
• Improve patient care and patient satisfaction
• Develop bench strength, emerging and future leaders

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SEE BELOW FOR EXAMPLES OF DELIVERABLES AND
RESULTS WE HAVE PROVIDED:

UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO

Provided ongoing leadership development on a variety of issues for a major team supporting the entire university system. Increased leadership skills and understanding to allow the department to better deliver services and support.
Helped both academic and administrative leaders learn skills to better coach and develop employees, teams, and students.
Delivered dialogue skills for community engagement and team building to University leaders.
Provided community building within faculty teams.

REGIS UNIVERSITY

• Guided strategic planning processes for a wide variety of University departments and institutes; including helping a professional school improve teaching methods for faculty and increasing recruitment and retention of sought after students.
• Provided conflict resolution services within departments.
• Facilitated strategic partnerships across University divisions.
• Hosted diversity dialogues to foster understanding between students and faculty of diverse backgrounds.

UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA

• Provided coaching, consultation, and retreat facilitation for dozens of faculty/departmental planning retreats.
• Provided more than 100 hours of executive coaching to academic and administrative leaders at all levels of the university.
• Work with faculty fellows and department chairs on their acumen and career development as leaders.
• Provided conflict resolution services within departments.
• Led multiple departments in the UNC Hospital/School of Medicine through 3-5 year strategic planning.

UNC SCHOOL OF THE ARTS

• Assisted the last two University Chancellors’ new tenure transitions through executive coaching and team strategy support.
• Developed and delivered a long term development strategy to strengthen the leadership capacity of the Dean’s Council.
• Provided ongoing executive coaching for members of the Executive Team and Dean’s Council.

SIMMONS UNIVERSITY

• Coached multiple senior executives.
• Developed a custom Dean’s Council leaders program to support the school’s evolution from a college to a university.

UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA

• Helped a wide variety of academic and administrative leaders more clearly understand the systemic struggles of leading in higher education; and developed strategies for proactively overcoming those challenges.
• Designed and led U.Va.’s first Executive Leadership Program, taught multiple leadership skill development workshops and facilitated retreats for many academic and administrative departments.
• Taught courses in Leadership and in Global Affairs.

WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST. LOUIS

• Provided executive coaching for multiple department chairs.
• Delivered ongoing communications training for the university’s campus-wide Emerging Leaders Program.

YALE UNIVERSITY

• Helped a key administrative unit develop strategic goals and objectives, to grow and perform as a more cohesive team, and to develop plans for increasing departmental positioning and credibility within the academy.

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