Deans Rising #1: Navigating Turbulent Educational Times w/ Adaptive Leadership
May 28, 2025
9AM-12M Pacific time
Early bird pricing until May 11, 2025
Payment in USD
May 28, 2025
9AM-12M Pacific time
Early bird pricing until May 11, 2025
Payment in USD
May 28, 2025
9AM-12M Pacific time
Early bird pricing until May 11, 2025
Payment in USD
Overview
“The reality is that none of us has experienced today’s challenges. What has worked in the past will not work going forward. Educational leadership will require different behaviors from those we have practiced and perfected. More adapting than executing. More surfacing and orchestrating difficult value choices than resolving them. More inventing next practices than finding best practices. More thinking politically than staying above the fray.” Marty Linsky (2025)
While turbulence is currently manifesting differently based on institutional history and context, higher education institutions are facing a historically high level of instability and uncertainty. This climate is destabilizing higher education leadership by design at a time when it is most important. This workshop is designed as a space to reclaim agency by working through the edges of your own turbulence. You will have a chance to deepen into your own adaptive contexts, while learnings from other peers how they are adapting to theirs.
The workshop will in part be guided by the scholarship and presence of Adaptive Leadership scholar and practitioner, Marty Linsky, who will be in dialogue with participants. As this workshop combines both external institutional change and inner capacity work, it is being co-hosted by Solvable’s Departments of Disruption and Resilience.
marty linsky
Marty Linsky has taught leadership, politics and media at Harvard for forty years. He’s also taught at Williams College, served as a Massachusetts State Representative and Chief Secretary to Governor of Massachusetts, and written as a Boston Globe columnist and Editor of The Real Paper. Linsky authored/co-authored over two dozen books and other publications. He ran nine marathons, does 20,000 steps/day, roots for Boston Celtics and Red Sox (from, NYC!), enjoys vegetarian food, strong gin, travel, Italy, curating his 25k+ baseball card collection, and the unexpected joys of semi-retirement. Three children. Three grandkids. His wife, Lynn Staley, ex-Newsweek Design Director, is now a successful painter. Her Katherine Graham portrait is a US postage stamp.
DESIRED OUTCOMES
Equip you with materials and skills to strategically navigate turbulence
Discernment between adaptive challenges and technical problems
Deepen understanding of your organizational roles and micro leadership opportunities
Increase your courage and stamina to operate within disequilibrium
Uncover insights into the complexities of your institutional system and the field of higher ed
Broaden your network of senior administrators from other institutions to learn and confide
PROTOCOLS
We recognize the sensitivity of these times in who shows up where and what is being said. This is designed as a closed and confidential container. Recording of any kind will not be permitted, nor will the attendees be made public. Solvable spaces are hosted on Canadian Zoom servers.
DEANs RISING SERIES
This is the first workshop in our Dean’s Rising series as part of our work in Higher Education Futures. Participants will receive a discount code for future workshops.
QUESTIONS?
Please email us with any questions you have about the workshop or series.