HIGHER EDUCATION · FOCUS AREA
Building
Leadership and Team Development
Your team is capable individually. Together, it is not yet a team.
We work alongside presidents, vice presidents, and other institutional leaders to develop stronger executive teams, cabinets, deans’ councils, and division leadership teams. We begin by understanding how the team operates and what may be preventing its members from working effectively together. Through a collaborative approach, we help leaders move beyond individual priorities, strengthen relationships, and develop the shared commitment and accountability needed to work across boundaries to advance institutional goals.
ON A CAMPUS
Where does the work need to happen?
An executive team where every conversation becomes a negotiation between units.
A new president inheriting a leadership team assembled by someone else.
Deans and directors who were promoted as scholars and never developed as leaders.
ACROSS THE INSTITUTION
What this work looks like for the whole institution.
Cabinet development, cross-unit collaboration, and the behaviors that decide whether institutional strategy gets executed at all.
INSIDE A DIVISION OR UNIT
What it looks like for a single division.
A division’s leadership team learning to run the unit together, not just their own areas of it.
HOW WE WORK
We listen, evaluate, and build.
01
Listen
We begin by understanding the team’s history, relationships, leadership dynamics, and the challenges its members face in working together.
02
Evaluate
Team effectiveness is shaped by more than individual leadership styles. We examine how roles, expectations, decision-making, communication, and organizational priorities influence the way the team operates.
03
Build
We engage leaders in practical conversations and development experiences that strengthen relationships, establish shared expectations, and improve how they work together.
04
Support
We help teams translate insights into everyday leadership practices, clear commitments, and greater accountability so that development continues beyond a retreat or workshop.
FROM THE RESOURCE HUB
Advancing Higher Education
Turning strategy into an integrated way of operating
University of Montana
Advancing Higher Education
From institutional strategy to execution
Montana State University + University of Montana
Advancing Higher Education
Building strategy through university-wide engagement and alignment
Montana State University + Northern Arizona University