Lead Forward: Real Tools for Real Challenges in Higher Education

Higher education leaders face increasing expectations, often with fewer resources and more complexity. In this interactive session, Dr. Jenny Stine, author of The Empowered Leader, offers practical tools and insights grounded in real experience working with academic leaders across top institutions.

Designed for Academic Leaders at Every Level

This session is designed for department chairs, deans, faculty leaders, and senior administrators seeking effective strategies that work. Whether you’re guiding a team, leading change, or responding to new demands, you’ll walk away with approaches you can apply right away.

What you’ll learn:

  • Tools to increase alignment, support your team, and manage complex dynamics

  • Lessons from ALG’s consulting and coaching work across leading universities

  • A new way of thinking about your leadership role and how to grow it

If you’re looking for a conversation that’s honest, useful, and focused on the realities of academic leadership, we invite you to join us.

Date: Thursday, October 2, 2025
Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET / 8:00 PM CEST
Duration: 1 Hour

 

Speaker

 

Jenny Stine is President and Co-Founder of the Academic Leadership Group is a leadership development expert, consultant, and executive coach specializing in higher education. She coaches senior university leaders and leads ALG's higher education consulting practice, helping universities navigate change, design effective organizations, and build leadership capacity.
Jenny spent over a decade leading executive and professional education programs at MIT and then at Harvard, where she also taught master's-level courses in organizational behavior and executive courses in leadership and teamwork. She worked for 10 years in global HR at Accenture, where she played a key role in major corporate-university partnerships.

 
 

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