Services built around your institution's goals.
Whether you're charting a new strategic direction, building leadership capacity, or navigating structural change — our consultants have done it before, in your seat. Engagements are scoped tightly; teams are matched specifically.
Institutional planning
Strategic, educational, and technology planning that builds real consensus — and drives sustainable change. We facilitate the hard conversations and surface the trade-offs that make a plan stick.
- Strategic plans (3–5 year)
- Comprehensive educational plans
- Technology & facilities planning
- Mission & vision refresh
- Implementation roadmaps
- KPI frameworks & dashboards
Leadership development & coaching
Developing the next generation of higher ed leaders through personalized coaching and professional development. We work with cabinets, deans, department chairs, and emerging leaders.
- Executive 1:1 coaching
- Cabinet & team coaching
- Department chair institutes
- New-leader onboarding (90/180/365)
- 360s & leadership assessments
- Succession planning
Organizational design
Rightsizing structures, clarifying roles, and building the capacity your institution needs to thrive. We design for both today's reality and tomorrow's mission.
- Org structure & reporting design
- Role clarity & RACI workshops
- Shared services & consolidation
- Position management & FTE planning
- Merger & affiliation design
- Span-of-control benchmarking
Research & data analysis
Rigorous, actionable research that helps institutions understand where they stand — and where to go next. We translate data into decisions, not dashboards-for-dashboards' sake.
- Enrollment & market analyses
- Program viability studies
- Equity & outcomes audits
- Climate & engagement surveys
- Benchmarking & peer studies
- Financial modeling & scenarios
AI strategy & institutional readiness
A dedicated practice. A separate page.
Navigate the opportunities and challenges of AI — from policy development and faculty readiness to responsible implementation across academic and administrative operations. Mission-grounded, not hype-driven.
- AI governance & policy
- Faculty & staff readiness
- Curriculum integration
- Vendor evaluation
- Pilots & rollouts
- Board & cabinet briefings
Board & cabinet support
Facilitation, retreats, and advisory work for boards and senior cabinets navigating complex decisions — the moments when alignment matters most.
- Annual board retreats
- Cabinet alignment offsites
- Crisis & transition advisory
- Board self-assessment & effectiveness
- Bylaws & committee design
- New-board-member onboarding
Pivot in 60
Focused, expert-led leadership development for teams and emerging leaders who don't have time to lose. 60-minute virtual sessions built around real workplace scenarios — tracked, scheduled, and tailored to the most pressing needs of colleges and districts.
- 40+ topic catalog
- 60-minute virtual sessions
- Cohorts of 8 per session
- Dean to VP level focus
- Certified coaching
- 2–3 weeks between sessions