EDUCAUSE Executive Leaders Academy
The EDUCAUSE Executive Leaders Academy is a hybrid, cohort-based, immersive, and applied learning experience for higher education executive leaders or those actively seeking executive positions. This seven-month program begins with an in-person component at the EDUCAUSE Annual Conference (included in registration fee) and continues online, featuring experts and thought leaders in key areas throughout. (Note: Application required.)
Key Competencies
Gain insight into your values and leadership knowledge and skills; learn how to coach and be coached; reflect upon and develop your personal and professional brand. Includes support for value-based leadership, coaching, personal brand, and engaging with the academy cohort.
Understand how to build a data-empowered culture and leverage data analytics/intelligence to support institutional goals. Includes support for explaining the strengths and weaknesses of different organizational models for data and analytics; data adding value to various areas of institutions; understanding how different aspects of data infrastructure make a strong data and analytics ecosystem; and using a data and analytics maturity model to assess institution-wide data management capabilities and use of analytics.
Explore collaboration frameworks to move institutional initiatives and strategic goals forward. Includes support for determining effective collaboration principles, articulating a collaborative approach, and identifying barriers, opportunities, and key stakeholders for collaboration.
Empower your leadership by exploring ways to increase your business acumen at the highest levels of the institution. Includes support for Identifying business acumen skills for strategic efforts, developing a communication strategy for initiatives, and enhancing influence and business skills.
Understand and apply tools and ideas for leading transformational changes critical to success at your institution. Includes support for supporting diversity, equity, and inclusion as a driver of change, articulating a transformational change model for your leadership, learning from successful change initiatives, and incorporating data and design practices into your leadership.
Review and reimagine the current and future design of your organization and its relationship with other stakeholders. Includes support for applying key components of organizational design, creating opportunities for DEI practices, understanding the cultural practices of your organization, and developing strategies to support high-performing teams.
Reflect on the academy and your leadership journey to develop a plan to continue your development and growth. Includes support for informing future opportunities for growth, developing a plan to foster a network of colleagues, identifying mentors and coaches, and developing a plan to optimize your leadership brand.
Faculty Application
Interested in becoming a faculty member for an EDUCAUSE Institute? Learn more about the process here.
EDUCAUSE Professional Pathways
The EDUCAUSE Professional Pathways are designed to help you determine where you are in your career today and create a plan to move toward tomorrow.
Congratulations to the 2022–2023 Executive Leaders Academy Class
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