Rosa Parks, Paul Revere, Relationships, and Results in Our New Normal

This lively and highly engaging session will focus on a core aspect of our success as leaders in higher education IT: the relationships we form and the results this enables us to achieve. Higher education presents complex social and political challenges to enacting transformative change. The pandemic has impacted each of us individually and, as a result, has dramatically changed the overall social fabric of relationships in our organizations. This, in turn, has changed that complex relationship fabric of our institutions. We will briefly explore the relevant trends and insights in this area. The majority of the session will then be dedicated to facilitated discussion to identify strategies needed to build and rebuild impactful relationships. For inspiration, we will draw on the stories of Rosa Parks and Paul Revere, who achieved incredibly meaningful results through the diverse and inclusive interpersonal relationships they each formed and nurtured. Each participant in this session will create a personal roadmap that moves beyond recovery to even greater impact. These roadmaps will be connected to achieving transformative innovation, and cultural and organizational changes. You will leave this session not only with new strategies and approaches to consider, but also with a personalized roadmap for leveraging those strategies.