Workshop: Creating Exceptional Teams in Higher Education

ON-CAMPUS WORKSHOP Creating Exceptional Teams in Higher Education Designed for institutions that are looking to make a meaningful investment in team development. This workshop is a great fit if you want a team leadership program that: Immediately impacts results Improves communication and collaboration Increases efficiency and productivity of the team Minimizes scheduling conflicts (1 day […]

Dr. Christopher Ray

As Dean of the College of Health Sciences at Texas Woman’s University, Dr. Christopher T. Ray oversees five departments, two schools, and five on-site clinics across three campuses. He has spearheaded the expansion of research, enhanced clinical learning opportunities for students, and capitalized on the many synergies across programs. Most notably, his leadership has resulted […]

Develop Your Impact Reporting Strategy

Impact reports can be one of your most valuable donor stewardship and cultivation tools, but shops often lack an overall strategy to implement them efficiently and effectively. Especially now, when many advancement teams are facing reduced resources, reporting can be challenging and time consuming. No matter the size of your shop, you will leave this […]

Influencing Without Authority

Having a position of authority is only one small piece of being a leader. A more important aspect of being a leader is exercising your influence. The savviest leaders know that behaving in ways that influence the feelings, thoughts, and actions of others is the piece that will ultimately give them traction. Join us online […]

Dave Lungren

Dave Lungren leads the design and development of online learning at Collegis Education. In over 12 years with the organization, he has led teams that built thousands of online courses for over twenty college partners. Most recently, Dave has focused his efforts on designing new models of learning delivery and assessment strategies to support competency-based […]

Richard Chapman

Dr. Chapman is a professor of Economics with emphasis on labor economics, negotiations, and political economy. His research interests have been centered on explaining persistent poverty and discrimination in the United States economy. Currently he has developed and is working on implementing, improving, and assessing performance coaching as a process to enhance graduate studies in […]

Cynthia J. Cyrus

Cynthia’s responsibilities include coordinating the undergraduate experience across the university’s four undergraduate schools and colleges, upholding the university’s academic policies, and working to enhance the student experience. She also facilitates the university’s online initiatives, including Coursera, and supervises the Vanderbilt Institute for Digital Learning. Cynthia joined the Vanderbilt University faculty in 1994 and currently is […]

Claudine Turner

Claudine coordinates the University of Central Florida’s Seizing Opportunities for Achievement and Retention (SOAR) summer bridge program. She comes to the SOAR program with over 10 years of academic advising experience from University of Louisville, Spalding University, and UCF, during which she encouraged students to develop the knowledge, skills, and attitudes to be successful in […]

Brad Kleinman

Brad is an engineer, educator, and entrepreneur. As president at WorkSmart Integrated Marketing, he defines educational needs for a national audience and delivers training using online technologies, webinars, national conferences, and workshops. Brad works with a number of community colleges, four-year institutions, chambers of commerce, and small business development centers to produce eMarketing Techniques events […]

Alternative Facts In Higher Education

In higher ed, do we often offer “alternative facts” too, operative myths that don’t accurately reflect the realities of higher education? The term “alternative facts” used by President Trump’s counselor in an interview about the inauguration crowd size has become a media meme. The idea of an alternative fact being something other than a falsehood […]