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Navigating Change: The Podcast from Teibel Education

Beyond Statements: Leading with Authentic Dialogue
Pete Wright Pete Wright

Beyond Statements: Leading with Authentic Dialogue

In a polarized world, can schools facilitate understanding across divides? Hear how one courageous leader is doing just that, as Kalyan Balavan shares his community's journey through the Hamas-Israel conflict on The Net Assets Podcast.

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Being of Service with WACUBO’s Michael Clune and Lupe Valencia

Being of Service with WACUBO’s Michael Clune and Lupe Valencia

Howard Teibel sat down with Michael Clune and Lupe Valencia at the WACUBO annual conference to talk about service and what inspires them about being part of this extraordinary association committed to providing professional development and networking opportunities for business officers serving higher education in the West.

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NBOA CEO Jeff Shields on Navigating Independent School Challenges and the 2024 NBOA Annual Meeting

NBOA CEO Jeff Shields on Navigating Independent School Challenges and the 2024 NBOA Annual Meeting

This week, Jeff Shields, President and CEO at NBOA, joins Howard Teibel for a conversation on the future of independent schools ahead of the 2024 NBOA Annual Meeting & Business Solutions Showcase. They address the integration of telework in education, the sustainability of innovations post-pandemic, and the critical importance of community and collaboration in sparking transformative ideas.

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117: Manu Narayan brings artful insight to board leadership at Carnegie Mellon

117: Manu Narayan brings artful insight to board leadership at Carnegie Mellon

This week on Navigating Change we welcome Manu Narayan to the show. Manu is a truly renaissance man. He’s an actor of stage and screen. He’s an accomplished musician. He’s a writer and producer. And for all his professional creative talents, he joins us to discuss his role of Young Alumni trustee on the board of Carnegie Mellon University.

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95: Building Consequential Boards with Dr. Richard Chait
Strategy, Shared Governance Pete Wright Strategy, Shared Governance Pete Wright

95: Building Consequential Boards with Dr. Richard Chait

Over the past month, we've talked with university presidents, trustees, and faculty, cultivating a dialog around building strong relationships between institutional leadership. In the face of strained board-president relationships, diffused shared governance practices, challenging financial and regulatory environment, stresses on the balance of leadership abound.

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93: Governance — Authority, Accountability & Responsibility in Shared Governance with Dr. Stephen Fowl
Academics, Shared Governance Pete Wright Academics, Shared Governance Pete Wright

93: Governance — Authority, Accountability & Responsibility in Shared Governance with Dr. Stephen Fowl

This week on the show, Professor Steve Fowl joins us to share his insights as an academic leader on what makes shared governance work. As former chair of the faculty senate, Steve paints a picture of an environment in which there exists clear and effective collaboration between faculty, administration, and board leadership.

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229: Elevating Our Game at the NBOA 2022 Annual Meeting

229: Elevating Our Game at the NBOA 2022 Annual Meeting

This February, the preeminent meeting for independent school business operations professionals returns in person! This week, NBOA CEO Jeff Shields joins Howard Teibel to talk about the year past and the importance of reengaging your business officer community as we rebuild together.

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218: Preparing Your Team to Face the Unnamed Disruptors with Guest Mike Gower

218: Preparing Your Team to Face the Unnamed Disruptors with Guest Mike Gower

This week on Navigating Change, Mike Gower joins Howard Teibel to talk about the questions before us and the disruptor around the corner. He shares the background to his work leading change across his leadership team and how that work can help set the stage for the next generation of finance and administrative leaders to follow him.

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Transforming Independent Schools Through Strategic Technology
Pete Wright Pete Wright

Transforming Independent Schools Through Strategic Technology

CIO Nathan Gault takes Jeff and Howard inside his mission to transform Stevenson School through cutting-edge technology. Discover how one visionary leader is challenging the status quo in technology leadership and forging a new path for data-driven education that puts human connections at the heart of innovation.

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228: Looking Beyond the Enrollment Cliff with Professor Nathan Grawe
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228: Looking Beyond the Enrollment Cliff with Professor Nathan Grawe

Joining Howard Teibel today in conversation is Dr. Nathan Grawe, distinguished teaching professor of the social sciences at Carleton College, where he has served on the faculty since 1999. You might have seen Nathan's work as it relates to the framing of the enrollment cliff, something that's been exacerbated and accelerated in this last year.

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227: Infusing Innovation into Your Institution: Building Sustainable Change – A Conversation with Howard Teibel and Jeff Shields
Collaboration & Teams Pete Wright Collaboration & Teams Pete Wright

227: Infusing Innovation into Your Institution: Building Sustainable Change – A Conversation with Howard Teibel and Jeff Shields

Jeff Shields, CEO of the National Business Officers Association and Howard Teibel explore these questions in anticipation of the upcoming February all-virtual NBOA Annual Meeting. The opportunity in this year is to prepare ourselves with the right state of mind – resiliency, ambition for change and living our vision.

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226: Engagement Across the Academy: Transformational Learning with UCLA's Dr. Christopher Surro

226: Engagement Across the Academy: Transformational Learning with UCLA's Dr. Christopher Surro

This conversation with UCLA professor Dr. Christopher Surro reflects on an essential topic for all of us: how do we engage students, colleagues, and peers to promote the kind of learning we all need in these times. Whether you're an administrator, Dean, CFO, or Provost, this conversation speaks to the nature of learning and engagement, listening versus telling.

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225: The “Anchor Mission” Playbook — Bringing higher purpose to your team

225: The “Anchor Mission” Playbook — Bringing higher purpose to your team

Today on the show we bring a demonstration of mission in action. Our guest is Doug Brown, President of UMass Memorial Community Hospitals and Chief Administrative Officer for the UMass Memorial Health Care system. He had a vision for their community - looking in their own backyard and anchoring their institutional mission through local investing, local procurement, and local hiring.

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