Event Category: Conference

Fundraising for Deans and Academic Leaders

As a dean or other academic leader, you hold numerous responsibilities, and fundraising is likely a critical part of your portfolio. You’re probably also finding the philanthropic landscape more competitive than ever, as donors are becoming more selective with their giving. To be a successful fundraiser, it is important to understand how to align your interests with those of donors seeking to make significant societal differences. Join us for this one-and-a-half-day interactive conference, led by renowned university advancement consultant Jim Langley. Academic leaders and their development counterparts will benefit from this conference as you:

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

Leaders of development officer teams are not only tasked with the responsibility to communicate and operationalize philanthropic priorities, but they must also create and sustain the right working environments for their gift officers to maximize their performance as a high-functioning team. As a supervisor of these kinds of teams, you are likely asking yourself questions like: Join us for this two-day conference where supervisors of gift officers will learn their leadership styles, develop a community of fellow gift officer supervisors, and explore the art and science of building high performing teams. You’ll walk away with the practical tools and strategies for inspiring a culture of collaboration and creative problem solving, especially in times of high stress. To preserve an intimate and productive experience, this conference 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.

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: Leading for Innovation and Growth

In today’s rapidly changing world, innovation has become a critical driver of success for individual leaders and their organizations. However, fostering a culture of innovation is not easy-especially in academia, where traditions and hierarchy often prevail. This unique event aims to bring Provosts together to connect with peers, develop their own leadership, and learn proven strategies for fostering an innovative mindset and culture at their institutions. Participants will learn about key elements of an innovative culture such as openness, experimentation, collaboration, and risk-taking, and hear translatable examples of how other institutions have successfully cultivated them. This summit is designed to be interactive and engaging, with plenty of opportunities for discussion, reflection, and practical exercises. You’ll leave with an expanded network of other Provosts across the nation who are equally invested in thinking outside the box to move their institutions forward.

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.

Loading survey...