Navigating Change from Teibel Education
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Navigating Change is a platform for understanding the complex and uncertain waters of change in higher education. Each week, Howard Teibel, Pete Wright, and guests dissect issues facing institutions and teams in transition and offer solutions for the most troubling process challenges
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Beyond Consensus: How Great Leaders Build Commitment with Canisius University President Steve K. Stoute
Canisius University President Steve Stoute moved his chief financial officer’s office across the hall from his own. He wanted to be able to stand up, walk over, and say, here’s what I’m thinking, let’s talk. It was the first of three things he did to get the CFO into the rooms where strategy gets...
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Imposter Syndrome: The Unspoken Presence in Leadership with Mary Herbert and Dr. Giselle Flores Martin
One of the women Dr. Giselle Flores Martin interviewed for her doctoral research had founded a company that grew to more than $22 million a year. She'd been featured in Forbes and had won several awards. She still didn't consider herself successful. It's the kind of thing people keep to…
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Bradley Olin on Mentorship, Courage, and the WACUBO Mentor Program
We build strategic plans for our institutions — multi-year, carefully aligned, revisited every quarter. Almost none of us build one for ourselves. That gap is where good mentoring lives, and it's where Bradley Olin spent the past year as a mentor in the WACUBO Mentor Program. The idea Bradley…
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A Safe Place to Grow and Take Risks: Robyn Pennington and Lori Seager on Volunteer Leadership at WACUBO
Somewhere this weekend, someone who runs a university finance office will spend their Saturday rebuilding a set of trail steps they'll never climb. No one's paying them; the hikers who use those steps in three years won't know their name. They do it anyway — and they'll tell you it's the clearest...
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James Taylor and Howard Teibel on AI, Creativity, and the Future of Work
In 1997, Garry Kasparov lost a chess match to IBM’s Deep Blue. The easy story was that the machine had won and the human had lost. The age of human superiority in chess was over. Kasparov saw something different and asked a more useful question: What if the future of chess was not human versus...
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The Human Side of Leadership • A Conversation with Nico Washington and Bill Guerrero.
In a moment when higher education finds itself pressed on all sides—demographics, policy shifts, the financial realities of running institutions—this live conversation from the EACUBO Annual Meeting offers something increasingly rare: clarity grounded in humanity. Howard Teibel invites Bill...
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Rethinking Non-Promotable Work • A Conversation with Laurie Weingart from Carnegie Mellon University
At first glance, the idea seems almost too ordinary to merit investigation: every workplace has a layer of tasks no one celebrates. Coordinating committees. Taking notes. Ordering refreshments. Keeping the machine running. These responsibilities rarely lead to promotions, and yet they quietly…
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Leading with Clarity • A conversation with Mitch Wein from the Brookings Institution
There are moments in a career when a small interaction—almost forgettable at the time—reshapes how a person thinks about leadership. For Mitch Wein, one of those key moments came during a meeting about selecting an architect, where a simple vote turned into a lesson about transparency and the…
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EACUBO Chairs | Continuity and Change at EACUBO • A conversation with Sara Thorndike and Romayne Botti
Leadership inside a professional community rarely looks like leadership on an organizational chart. It’s quieter, more relational, shaped by volunteers who balance full workloads with the desire to support their peers. In this episode, recorded live at EACUBO 2025, Howard Teibel talks with…
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Disrupting Ourselves: Making education relevant for students with Howard Teibel, Scott Carlson and Ned Laff
In 1877, the first college "major" was coined at Johns Hopkins. The catalog for that year is a dense read, though short; courses toward the baccalaureate only required two years of study and then—presumably—a job. That catalog has hardened into something else today: a system that prizes…
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Building Financial Resilience Through Culture and Strategy: A Higher Education Case Study
For years, finance in higher education has worked quietly behind the scenes—essential, but rarely seen as a force for change. Budgets got balanced, reports got filed, and institutions moved forward... slowly. But what happens when that model starts to crack? When rising costs outpace tuition...
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Child’s Play: Tapping Workplace Creativity, with Keynote Speaker Kyle Scheele
The opening speaker at the 2025 NBOA Annual Meeting will be Kyle Scheele, who is known for cooking up wild ideas that many people back for laughs and for learning. NBOA President and CEO Jeff Shields discusses with Scheele the process behind some of his outlandish projects and about being…
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The Language of Action: Moving Beyond Communication Breakdown
This week, Pete Wright and Howard Teibel dive deep into the topic of weak communication practices and their consequences in organizations. Howard, drawing from his extensive experience working with teams and leaders, shares insights on how miscommunication often stems from focusing on passing...
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Being of Service in Higher Education with WACUBO’s Michael Clune and Lupe Valencia
Being of service. This is at the heart of the roles we play in higher education. At the 2024 WACUBO Annual Conference at Disneyland in California, leaders and practitioners in administration came together to explore how they can Dream, Lead, and Inspire others to serve the mission of our…
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The Teamwork Behind a Turnaround
We are thrilled to present this episode of the Net Assets Podcast, a partnership between NBOA and Teibel Education Consulting, with NBOA President and CEO Jeff Shields and Teibel Education President Howard Teibel. This episode marks the first in what we hope will become a collection of some of…
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NBOA CEO Jeff Shields on Navigating Independent School Challenges and the 2024 NBOA Annual Meeting
This week, Jeff Shields, President and CEO at NBOA, joins Howard Teibel for a conversation on the future of independent schools ahead of the 2024 NBOA Annual Meeting & Business Solutions Showcase. Howard and Jeff speak about issues of integrating telework, the sustainability of post-pandemic...
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WACUBO 2023 Annual Conference: Rising to the Challenge with WACUBO President Brad Baca
As we continue our gradual emergence from a certain hibernation over the last three years, the opportunity to engage with our colleagues is more critical than ever. Brad Bacca, President of Western Colorado University and the Western Association of College and University Business Officers, sits...
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NBOA: 25 Years! A Conversation with President and CEO Jeff Shields
NBOA President and CEO, Jeff Shields, joins Howard Teibel for a conversation on indepenent school business, finance, and operations, all in preparation for the association's 25 Anniversary Celebration in Los Angeles, February 19-22. What’s top-of-mind for business officers coming out of the...
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Elevating Our Game at NBOA’s 2022 Annual Meeting
Unbeknownst to us in February 2020, we were about to go into a certain kind of hibernation, one forced on us by the circumstances of our time. Two years into this, we may be seeing the beginning of the light at the end of the tunnel – learning how to live with this global pandemic and bring back...
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Looking Beyond the Enrollment Cliff with Professor Nathan Grawe
Joining Howard Teibel today in conversation is Dr. Nathan Grawe, distinguished teaching professor of the social sciences at Carleton college, where he has served on the faculty since 1999. You might have seen Nathan's work as it relates to the framing of the enrollment cliff, something that's…
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Infusing Innovation into Your Institution: Building Sustainable Change – A Conversation with Howard Teibel and Jeff Shields
As we turn our energy to 2021, we can begin to catch a glimpse of getting on the other side of this crisis. Independent school leaders have implemented innovations over the last nine months that they could only dream about prior to the pandemic. The question now is can they sustain these changes...
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Engagement Across the Academy for Transformational Learning with UCLA's Dr. Christopher Surro
At Teibel Education we are committed to having your people be connected with a higher purpose. As we look to 2021 and the hope for greater ease and less uncertainty, we bring you a podcast on learning. How do you produce active listening in a colleague, student, or peer? Active listening is a...
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The Anchor Mission Playbook: Bringing Higher Purpose to Your Team
Mission in Action Today on the show we bring a demonstration of living a mission. Our guest is Doug Brown, President of UMass Memorial Community Hospitals and Chief Administrative Officer for the UMass Memorial Health Care system. He had a vision for their community - looking in their own…
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Discovering the Highest Purpose of Your Organization — It’s not what you think it is
This is an important conversation to listen to the whole way through. First, ask yourself: what’s the highest purpose of your organization? Likely you have an answer, something you’ve been told, or something you’ve absorbed through your experience over the years. But maybe the greater truth is…
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An Important Perspective: A Conversation with Rising Senior at Colby College, Heather Jahrling
Heather Jarhling is a rising senior at Colby College in Waterville Maine. She — like her peers — is facing an unsettled future. This cohort spent the last three and a half months running to keep up with a shift to online education that many of them did not sign up for. Of course, no one signed up...
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It’s Time to Step Up — A conversation with Dr. Robert Quinn
As we begin to pivot in our organizations from the necessary critical decisions to get through these first few months and on to living with a new way of working, how do we not fall back into business as usual? Our people are looking not only for direction and stability but a sense of connection…
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The Education for Tomorrow Emerging Today with Dr. Nelson Baker
In our lifetime, Higher Education has not seen the kind of global shock to its system that emerged over a two-month period. We anticipated a systematic and orderly shift in the next few years to address the rising cost of education, changing demographics, and a growing adult population choosing…
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What If? Scenario Planning in times of deep change with Bryan Alexander
Many of us listen to podcasts in moments of leisure or capacity to separate from work. Sometimes a topic comes along that is central to what we’re facing right now. This week, we are very fortunate to have educator and futurist Bryan Alexander joining us for a conversation around scenario…
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Building Strategic Thinkers in Your Organization
Over the last two episodes we’ve discussed two major functions of strategic thinking. In the first, we shared insights around uncovering your key message. In part two, we focused on how to get the attention of your audience with headlining your vision. This week, we’ll focus on the key factors to...
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The 60-Year Curriculum with Rovy Branon
Our guest is working to develop the 60-year curriculum, one with an eye toward a lifetime of education. Rovy Branon serves as Vice Provost for Continuum College at University of Washington. When you are a learner at Continuum College, you are taking part in one of the most aggressively innovative...
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Preparing Your Team to Face the Unnamed Disruptors with Guest Mike Gower
There is an unnamed disruptor around the corner. So says our guest today, Rutgers University’s Mike Gower. As Executive Vice President for Finance and Administration and University Treasurer, the breadth and depth of his involvement in university operations is extensive. With decades of…
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Building Momentum, Trust and Commitment around Strategic Planning
Cutting a path through the political and emotional landscape to deliver a strong strategic plan is an act of courage. Even with a clear consensus that a strategic plan is required, connecting intention to action is a massive undertaking. That’s precisely what Rhode Island School of Design’s...
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Becoming part of the solution with Roger L. Martin
In February 2015, Roger L. Martin joined us to talk about innovation, incentive, and inspiration. This is the stuff that drives teams to face the most complex, stubborn challenges with surprising and creative solutions. That episode quickly cemented itself as one of our most listened-to episodes…
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The Nature of Requests
Requests are not directives — they live in conversation How often do we find ourselves hearing a request, waiting until we walk away from that person, and then say to ourselves, “I have no idea what my boss or colleague is asking me to do?” This universal experience is both comical and…
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Learning to Invent the Future Together
How do you build a culture of creativity and innovation? It starts with uncovering the unseen forces that keep a team from excelling, including fear of failure, lack of candor, and unwillingness to put aside individual needs. This week on the show, Howard shares an overview of his session at...
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Making Offers to Spur Innovation with Peter Denning
Peter Denning returns to the show this week to talk about innovation. But this most likely isn’t the innovation discussion you’re expecting. Instead, Peter challenges the conventional wisdom in the area of innovation and idea, inviting us to rethink our perceptions on contribution. His work and...
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Goodwill is not a Skill Set: Dr. Menah Pratt-Clarke on shifting our approach to the dialog on diversity and inclusion on campus
Dr. Menah Pratt-Clarke has dedicated her career as an educator to helping others better understand some of the most charged encounters we face. She is a thought leader in diversity and inclusion and even as her area of study engages in conversations that range from discomfort to rage, her…
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The First Team: Being on the same page as your leadership team
Who is on your first team? If I said to you, "tell me about your team", you likely would report about those who are your direct reports. This is not only natural, it's the way we orient ourselves to get our work done. The principle of “Team Number 1”, introduced by Patrick Lencioni, asks you to...
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The research speaks: You're probably burned out, and you're not alone
When our guest today started her career as an educator, 80% of the teachers at her school were new, the result of tectonic turnover resulting from burnout on staff. That experience drove her to leave teaching after just a few years and pursue a career studying educator burnout and the big lesson...
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Worlds Opening: Learning to engage in conversations about a future we can’t predict
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...
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Lessons in vulnerability and candor with Howard Teibel and Lampros Fatsis
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...
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Moving Mountains: Provoking Change in Higher Education with Carol Mullaney and Brent Ruben
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…
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Exploring WACUBO’s 2019 Annual Conference with Ruth Johnston — Walking the Talk and Dealing with Overwhelm
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...
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Educational Procurement’s Emerging Frontier — NAEP's Krista Ferrell embraces community and change
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!...
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The New Normal is Normal Now with NBOA President Jeff Shields
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...
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Disrupting the Permanent Present with Anouar Majid
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...
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Thinking with your heart, feeling with your brain — Sustainability in Higher Education with Gil Friend
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…
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From Ladders to Drones to a Culture of Authentic Collaboration
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...
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Cultivating Emotional Resiliency
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...
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The Best Story Wins in Film ... and Higher Ed
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.…
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