EDUCAUSE Transforming Leadership Webinar Series | Navigating Security, Governance, and Organizational Excellence: Part 2
A Collaboration with Vantage Technology Consulting Group | 2026 EDUCAUSE Strategic Partner
A series designed to equip leaders with tools for enhancing security, leveraging data, and building successful information technology strategies.
The EDUCAUSE ‘Transforming Leadership’ webinar is one of a four-part series.
Note: Each webinar requires individual registration. Don’t miss out—secure your spot for each webinar.
Resilience by Design: Creating Sustainable IT Organizations
What does it take to build an IT organization that can thrive in today's challenging higher education IT landscape? Join this panel to explore insights from recent workforce studies highlighting key organizational challenges facing higher education IT teams, especially how we help our teams and institutions approach AI usage.
Panelists will share practical strategies to prevent burnout, foster well-being, and build long-term resilience within their organizations. Through real-world campus perspectives, attendees will gain actionable ideas for strengthening team culture, building emotional intelligence, supporting staff, leading through constant change, and leveraging the greater community to build internal resilience.
Whether you’re navigating staffing constraints or seeking to create a more sustainable IT environment, this session offers timely insights and peer-driven approaches to help you design resilience into your organization.
Learning outcomes:
- Strengthen organizational resilience: Participants will be able to implement leadership practices and team-based strategies that foster adaptability and a more sustainable IT culture.
- Apply burnout prevention strategies: Participants will be able to describe practical approaches for reducing burnout and supporting staff well-being within IT teams.
- Interpret workforce trends: Participants will be able to identify key challenges highlighted in higher education IT workforce studies and understand their impact on organizational sustainability.
Additional Resources
- Identifying Change Fatigue in Teams: Insights from the Energy-Commitment Model (EDUCAUSE Review)
- Beyond Infrastructure: Why Higher Education IT Needs Trauma-Informed Leadership Now (EDUCAUSE Review)
- NAMI-Ipsos Workplace Mental Health Poll 2026 (National Alliance on Mental Illness)
- 2025 Mental Health at Work Report: Key Workplace Trends (Mind Share Partners)
- Mental Health at Work: The Benefits Gap and How to Close It (Spring Health & Forrester Study)
- Burnout From an Organizational Perspective (SSIR - Stanford Social Innovation Review)
Presenters
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Executive Strategic Consultant, Vantage Technology Consulting Group -
Donna Kidwell
CIO, University of Toronto -
Barron Koralesky
Chief Information Officer, Williams College -
Jack Suess
Vice President of IT & CIO, University of Maryland, Baltimore County -
Valerie Vogel
Senior Strategic Consultant, Vantage Technology Consulting Group
Accessibility
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