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Navigating Change: The Podcast from Teibel Education
Rethinking Non-Promotable Work • A Conversation with Laurie Weingart from Carnegie Mellon University
Howard Teibel sits down with Carnegie Mellon professor and The No Club co-author Laurie Weingart to examine the unseen workloads shaping careers across higher education. Their conversation explores how organizations can surface and redistribute non-promotable work so employees can thrive in roles that match their talents and aspirations.
Leading with Clarity • A conversation with Mitch Wein from the Brookings Institution
From EACUBO 2025, Howard Teibel speaks with Mitch Wein of the Brookings Institution about the craft of leadership and the role curiosity plays in complex decision-making. Together they explore how leaders can connect operational choices to long-term mission in a world shaped by uncertainty, public debate, and rapidly shifting expectations.
Continuity and Change at EACUBO • A conversation with Sara Thorndike and Romayne Botti
Leadership inside a professional community rarely looks like an organizational chart—it is quieter, relational, and driven by volunteers navigating complex transitions. Join Howard Teibel live from EACUBO 2025 as he explores the evolution of association leadership and the power of peer candor with Romayne Botti and Sara Thorndike.
Disrupting Ourselves: Making education relevant for students with Howard Teibel, Scott Carlson and Ned Laff
What if the college major is a relic of an old world—and the real work of higher education is helping students design their own? In this conversation, we explore how to return intention, joy, and human agency to the center of the college experience.
Building Financial Resilience Through Culture and Strategy: A Higher Education Case Study
For years, finance in higher education has worked quietly behind the scenes—essential, but rarely seen as a force for change. Budgets got balanced, reports got filed, and institutions moved forward... slowly. But what happens when that model starts to crack? When rising costs outpace tuition revenue, and the math that once worked no longer adds up?
87: Incentives for Innovation and Navigation with guest Roger L. Martin
Roger Martin is Premier’s Chair in Productivity & Competitiveness and Academic Director of the Martin Prosperity Institute at the Rotman School of Management. From 1998 to 2013, he served as Dean. Previously, he spent 13 years as a Director of Monitor Company, a global strategy consulting firm based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he served as co-head of the firm for two years.
Child’s Play: Tapping Workplace Creativity, with Keynote Speaker Kyle Scheele
What if everyone is creative, even the so-called pragmatists among us? Join Jeff Shields on Net Assets as he explores this intriguing question with Kyle Scheele, the mind behind a 21,000-regret Viking funeral and a fake marathon, and discover the untapped potential waiting to be unleashed.
The Language of Action: Moving Beyond Communication Breakdown
This week on Navigating Change, Pete Wright and Howard Teibel unpack the consequences of weak communication practices in organizations. Discover how distinguishing between assessments and assertions, making offers, and building commitment over consensus can transform your team's effectiveness and accelerate change.
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 Balaven shares his community's journey through the Hamas-Israel conflict on The Net Assets Podcast.
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.
The Teamwork Behind a Turnaround • Introducing the Net Assets Podcast
Hosts Jeff Shields and Howard Teibel kick off the inaugural episode of our new show, The Net Assets Podcast, and what better guests to join them than the leaders of the Lakefield College School to discuss the school's remarkable comeback story.
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.
231: WACUBO 2023 Annual Conference: Rising to the Challenge with WACUBO President Brad Baca
WACUBO President, Brad Baca, joins Howard Teibel for a conversation on the association’s annual conference in Phoenix, April 30-May 3, 2023.
230: NBOA: 25 Years! A Conversation with President and CEO Jeff Shields
NBOA President and CEO, Jeff Shields, joins Howard Teibel for a conversation on indepenent school business, finance, and operations, all in preparation for the association's 25 Anniversary Celebration in Los Angeles, February 19-22.
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.
38: Movers of Rocks: Becoming a Leader of Change
Becoming a leader of change is about far more than effective project management skill. It’s a unique and delicate art that must balance the processes that support complex organizational systems with the diplomacy to unite groups around big initiatives.
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.
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.
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.
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.
