A year-long leadership program turning your own faculty and staff into tomorrow's academic leaders.
Growing leaders from within builds exactly the kind of confidence that keeps people from walking out the door.
Source: CUPA-HR 2025 Higher Education Employee Retention Survey
Higher ed employees say they're likely to look for another job in the next year.
Where confidence in institutional leadership now ranks as a predictor of employee retention, up from two years ago.
Strengths-based self-awareness, emotional intelligence, and a personal leadership identity.
Trust, communication, feedback, and navigating difficult conversations
with confidence.
Building high-performing teams, accountability, and inclusive,
collaborative cultures.
Governance, institutional dynamics, strategic thinking, and resource stewardship.
Coalition-building, influence without authority, and leading through resistance.
• Case studies grounded in open-access missions and workforce alignment
• Scenarios built around shared governance in a two-year structure
• Cohorts often draw from multiple campuses across a single state system
• Emphasis on resource constraints and multi-campus coordination
• Case studies grounded in tenure, promotion, and faculty personnel processes
• Scenarios built around departmental budgeting and cross-college collaboration
• Cohorts often draw from multiple colleges or schools within one institution
• Emphasis on faculty governance and academic administrativestructure
In-Person • 1 Day
The cohort's only in-person day.
CliftonStrengths beforehand, then a day together on leadership identity and trust-building.
Live Online • Cohort
Live 90-minute sessions with your full cohort, each mapped to the next stage of the framework.
Live Online • Cohort
Live 90-minute sessions with your full cohort, each mapped to the next stage of the framework.
Ongoing
A living document built all year, culminating in a personal leadership philosophy.
Live Online • Cohort
The cohort's closing session: Playbook presentations and a personalized 12-month growth plan.
Every session, reflection, and Playbook entry lives in the IE Platform, so your leaders always know what's next and your team can see exactly how the program is landing.
Personalized Dashboard
Each participant tracks session progress, revisits recordings, and downloads certificates in one place.
Digital Leadership Playbook
A living, personalized action plan participants build session by session and keep well past the program.
Dedicated Project Manager
One point of contact from kickoff through final reporting, coordinating logistics, scheduling, and communication.
Go2Knowledge Library Access
Curated, on-demand professional development content aligned to each stage of the framework, at no added cost.
Progress Reporting
Formative and summative data on engagement, completion, and Playbook activity across the cohort.
Flexible Hosting
Delivered on IE's secure platform, or coordinated with a platform your institution already provides.
Go2Knowledge allowed us to align professional development with key institutional priorities.
