All around us, worlds are opening. Whether the result of cultural change or technological disruption, new opportunities present themselves every day that challenge our current state of understanding, comfort, and well-being. As leaders and experts in our respect fields, we know that this robust economy of change presents terrific opportunities, but how do we have conversations about a future we can’t predict? Make no mistake, this is not something we do naturally — or well — without practice. Th...
May 28, 2019•30 min•Ep. 209
This week on the show, we invite our colleague Lampros Fatsis to explore our Group Coaching program and share lessons learned in personal transformation. To learn more about Group Coaching Program, click here . About Lampros Fatsis Lampros has over 20 years’ experience in organizational change consulting and executive & team coaching. He holds three degrees from MIT and is a Chartered Financial Analyst. Links & Notes [Learn more about the Teibel Group Coaching Program] 1...
May 14, 2019•17 min•Ep. 208
This week on the show, Howard Teibel sits down with two esteemed leaders in the higher education space. Carol Mullaney serves as Senior Director for the Offices of Sustainability and Continuous Improvement, and president elect for the Network for Change and Continuous Innovation (NCCI). Brent Ruben is director of the Rutgers Leadership Academy and faculty member at the Robert Wood Johnson School of Medicine and the Graduate School of Education at Rutgers University. His years of contribution cha...
Apr 30, 2019•42 min•Ep. 207
Today brings us a new conversation with one of our favorite return guests. Ruth Johnston serves as Vice Chancellor for Planning & Administration for University of Washington Bothell and is a leader in organizational excellence in higher education. What's more, she's third vice president on the WACUBO board of directors, helping the organization bring a vibrant curriculum to business officers in the excellence space. She joins Howard this week for a conversation in building collaboration betw...
Apr 16, 2019•24 min•Ep. 206
NAEP executive director Krista Ferrell hasn’t been on the job long. But she’s already helping to guide the institution in bold new directions in educational procurement leadership. In just a few months, the association will ring in their 98th annual meeting in Kansas City under the theme, Engage! They’re latching onto the values of the vaunted 50-year-old science fiction franchise Star Trek as a means to reinforce the values they share so deeply with the 24th century: creativity, mission, and in...
Mar 26, 2019•20 min•Ep. 205
On the eve of NBOA's 2019 Annual Meeting, President and CEO Jeff Shields joins Howard Teibel for a wide-ranging conversation on the state of change and leadership. Their conversation centers on the change in the narrative in independent school education as many in the field have adjusted to a new normal, incorporating new models in tuition and financial management across their operations. What’s more, he introduces Business Intelligence for Independent Schools — or BIIS — a tool for NBOA member ...
Mar 12, 2019•41 min•Ep. 204
When most of us think of disruption in our institutions, we think of turnover, upheaval, cuts, a future state in which change to the status quo has the potential to negatively impact the team. Because of that image, we tend to hide from disruption. Our guest today has no issue confronting the frustrations of higher education, and possesses a unique skill in disrupting stasis with authenticity. Anouar Majid is a professor of English at the University of New England. However, his titles and accomp...
Jan 10, 2019•38 min•Ep. 203
As a leader in higher education, you’ve undoubtedly been involved in sustainability projects across your institution. From recycling services to new architecture and design, we’re doing our best to adapt to a new sustainability orientation . But these practical applications, while noble, may not be sufficient to lead to universal, long-term, established change. It’s not easy to learn how to have these provocative conversations, let alone learn how to lead them. Our guest this week occupies a uni...
Nov 29, 2018•38 min•Ep. 202
Larry Levine leads the information technology organization for University of Colorado at Boulder. Scott Munson leads the information technology group for the University of Colorado system. Between the two, University of Colorado IT has ushered in a new era of collaboration that embraces not just their teams, but departments and functions that span the University. And yet, collaboration is a tricky word. What Munson and Levine discovered was that while they had been cooperating between department...
Oct 30, 2018•20 min•Ep. 201
Leadership is about orchestrating our people to coordinate actions toward a shared vision. How we speak our intentions to those around us can have either positive or negative impact to achieve our goals. This week on the show, we’re talking about emotional resiliency, a rarely discussed construct for education leaders. Learning how to show up as emotionally resilient is the backbone to navigating uncertainty and leading others to a future that addresses the concerns of those we serve. Resiliency...
Oct 16, 2018•21 min•Ep. 200
Walking into a darkened theater, settling in for a great movie, you expect to be moved. You expect to join the rest of the audience for an emotional roller coaster ride. You might even expect to learn a little something about yourself and your relationship to the world around you along the way. All of this happens thanks to the craft and skill of creators like our guest today. With their deep understanding of how we process symbols and archetypes, they’re able to take us on this journey make us ...
Oct 02, 2018•39 min•Ep. 199
Watch "The Power of Influence — 1/6 - 2/3 - 1/6" It’s natural to want everyone around you to be happy with your newest idea. In an ideal world, you’d communicate what you want, everyone on your teams would align and we’d all go home at 5 and relax with our feet up. That’s not going to happen. Today on the podcast, we dive into a mindset shift we first released back in 2015, a framework that has become known as our “⅙ - ⅔ - ⅙” model. Each time we engage leaders around this idea, we learn somethin...
Sep 18, 2018•22 min•Ep. 198
Howard Teibel moderated a panel of three financial officers at First American Education Finance’s Peer Discussion event after the 2018 NACUBO Annual Meeting. Hear the stories of industry experts from private and public institutions who are empowering members of their campus communities to play a key role in driving innovative change. Bill Davies (Mount St. Mary's University), J.J. Wagner Davis (George Mason University), and Don Matthewson (University of Southern California), offered their experi...
Aug 23, 2018•58 min•Ep. 197
Last month, I had the opportunity to have my perspective tested. As someone that works in higher education, you might think that’s not much of a novelty. On the contrary — none of us is immune to cemented positions and calcified opinions. The NACUBO 2018 Annual Meeting was a chance for me to face some of my own, and I walked away with three experiences I wanted to share this week. W. Kamau Bell opened his keynote explaining that he’d been asked not to swear. As a comedian, he’s accustomed to spe...
Aug 09, 2018•21 min•Ep. 196
The stories we write define our careers as business officers. They are the stories of leadership and political will. They are the stories of growth and building, and the stories of contraction. They are the stories of how others will perceive us as leaders of change and how our communities will perceive our institutions as educators of the next great generation. Howard is heading to Long Beach to take part in the NACUBO 2018 Annual Meeting. His work there will focus on business officers as leade...
Jul 10, 2018•14 min•Ep. 195
Today on the show, we’re talking about what it means to be a beginner. Peter Denning is a Distinguished Professor at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. He chairs the Computer Science Department and directs the Cebrowski Institute, an interdisciplinary research center for information innovation. Peter has held previous faculty positions at Princeton, Purdue, and George Mason, and he was founding director for the computer science research institute at NASA Ames. Peter joins us ...
Jun 07, 2018•32 min•Ep. 194
Donald Heller is Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs and a professor of education at the University of San Francisco. Before USF however, Dr. Heller served in positions as professor of education at Penn State University, and then Dean of the College of Education at Michigan State University. And it is with the perspective of his experience at those two institutions that he penned “After Michigan State: Could We Be Next?”, an article published as part of the Chronicle of Higher Educati...
May 22, 2018•27 min•Ep. 193
The information technology office is changing. No longer a simple service center to keep your laptop humming, today’s IT office offers a striking portfolio of tools to help solve problems across the organization, provided leaders learn how to effectively engage. This week on the show, we have two guests from the University of Colorado IT office. Marin Stanek serves as deputy CIO and director of academic technology, and Orrie Gartner serves as director of operations and cloud infrastructure for t...
May 08, 2018•33 min•Ep. 192
In February 2015, Roger L. Martin joined as a guest to talk about innovation, incentive, and inspiration that drives creative solutions to complexity. In 2017, Roger was named the world's #1 management thinker by Thinkers50, a biannual ranking of the most influential global business thinkers. This episode quickly cemented itself as one of our most listened-to episode in the eight years that we have been producing this show. Roger effortlessly demonstrates the kind of approach to change that has ...
Apr 17, 2018•37 min•Ep. 192
Plymouth State University is making a dramatic shift, moving from a traditional university structure to a cluster-based model, which will give students a new combination of education and engaged scholarship necessary to compete successfully in an increasingly complex and demanding world. The leadership and vision behind this come courtesy of President Donald Birx. “There’s a reason why people are questioning the value of higher education, at a time when it’s more valuable than ever. What if we c...
Apr 05, 2018•39 min•Ep. 191
Bentley President Gloria Larson is back this week to continue our conversation on hybrid learning, the work she and her team are leading at Bentley, and lessons from her book, Prepared U: How Innovative Colleges Drive Student Success . If you missed last week’s episode, you can start here . Our premise today is this: Knowledge is no longer what our students are counting on us to deliver. Knowledge is everywhere, around every corner, and on every phone, tablet, and laptop. Today, says Larson, emp...
Mar 20, 2018•20 min•Ep. 190
Bentley University President Gloria Larson returns to Navigating Change this week to share the story of her new book, Prepared U: How Innovative Colleges Drive Student Success. The book tells the story of our changing marketplace and asks some hard questions for institutions. At its core, how well are we pivoting to provide an education that meets the needs of a new kind of student, one who is prepared to enter the world with skills and sensibilities to engage in the global marketplace? And what...
Mar 06, 2018•23 min•Ep. 189
People can see change as an affront to the way things have always been done. They’re right to feel this way. When we shift to engaging each other in culture change, something happens. People begin to see the change as a sign of progress, and not an attack on tradition. How do you produce this transformation? This week on the show, Howard Teibel leads us through a campus-wide process that can build this kind of emotional resiliency. Reducing costs, creating efficiencies, and generating revenue is...
Jan 25, 2018•28 min•Ep. 188
This week, we bring you part two of our conversation with Grant Lichtman, author of Moving the Rock: Seven Levers WE Can Press to Transform Education . In today’s show, Howard and Grant explore a few important questions for our K-12 and higher education leaders: What kinds of skills are needed by students beyond knowledge acquisition? What does it mean to develop the skills of a life-long learner in this age of accelerating change? How do we prepare students to have a resiliency in their capacit...
Dec 12, 2017•15 min•Ep. 187
As emerging leaders, we are challenged by the question of where to focus our time and energy that makes a difference. What does it mean to be an orchestrator of change and lead others through these historical times in education? Orchestrating change demands a mindset and cultivation of mood that opens possibilities for us and those around us. Now more than ever, we need to build bridges between our administrative functions, the academy and countless constituents we serve. On Thursday, January 18...
Nov 28, 2017•17 min•Ep. 186
Once again this year, EACUBO and its members outdid themselves in building and hosting the 2017 Annual Meeting in Pittsburgh. As a part of the event, Howard Teibel was asked to facilitate a panel of three esteemed panelists for a conversation on reimagining budget and planning. But that title hardly captures where the discussion ultimately went. The challenges facing finance leaders are many, but above and beyond the day-to-day shuffle of administration, how do leaders across the institution sta...
Nov 15, 2017•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 185
Our guest today returns to share the story of his research toward his latest book and his work understanding the nature of change in education today. In Grant Lichtman’s latest book, Moving the Rock: Seven Levers WE Can Press to Transform Education , he outlines the three fundamental questions facing education today: Why should we change, what is the change going to look like, and how do we get there? In the context of higher education, the struggle for change is happening on two fronts; how do ...
Oct 24, 2017•16 min•Ep. 184
In our last episode, we shared the first half of our conversation on finding your calling, recorded on a shady porch at The Chautauqua Institution in New York. This week, we’re picking up where we left off with a few quick but important observations. What is the role of unconditional commitment to a cause in determining your calling? How well are we living that commitment as a responsibility to change the world of our students for the better? What skills are we teaching and demonstrating that eq...
Oct 10, 2017•17 min•Ep. 183
What does it mean to have a calling? How do you know you’re living a life of contribution? As a leader in higher education, are you living up to the mission of your institution? Howard and Pete get to share some rare face-to-face time in this conversation coming to you from a shady porch at The Chautauqua Institution in New York. As a recap of some of our recent interviews, we’re discussing the role of facing our failures, finding a calling, and how our calling motivates us, drives us, and prope...
Sep 26, 2017•19 min•Ep. 182
This week on the show Howard Teibel sits down again with University of La Verne President Devorah Lieberman. President Lieberman begins by sharing the story of a windfall donation that caused the school to think more broadly about giving, celebrating the role the institution serves in the community to help engender enthusiasm and direct financial support beyond alumni. Then, she introduces a course that she leads herself, co-teaching with a president at another university, in another country, a ...
Sep 05, 2017•10 min•Ep. 181
