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Navigating Change: The Podcast from Teibel Education
The Human Side of Leadership • A Conversation with Nico Washington and Bill Guerrero.
From the 2025 EACUBO Annual Meeting, Howard Teibel sits down with leaders Bill Guerrero and Nico Washington for a wide-ranging and deeply human conversation about uncertainty, purpose, and the evolving role of the CBO. Their stories illuminate how curiosity, intuition, and a willingness to rethink success can reshape how institutions face their most complex challenges.
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.
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.
224: Discovering the Highest Purpose of Your Organization — It’s not what you think it is
Dr. Robert Quinn and Howard Teibel focus on what it looks like to give up control to create something most of us only imagine – an engaged, connected and purpose-focused organization, where leaders put their egos aside and allow their people to step up.
222: It's Time to Step Up: A Conversation with Dr. Robert Quinn
Today on the show, Howard has a conversation with Dr. Robert Quinn, professor emeritus at the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business and co-founder for the Center for Position Organizations. Howard and Robert explore what it looks like to step up into an authentic way of leading – both from the heart and with conviction.
Building Strategic Thinkers in Your Organization
Strategic thinking is not linear or delivering on daily work. It’s about peering around corners, across horizons, and uncovering trends that exist beyond the bubble of your institution.
217: Building Momentum, Trust and Commitment around Strategic Planning: The RISD NEXT 2020-2027 Plan
This week on the show, RISD’s Taylor Scott joins Howard Teibel and Rebeka Mazzone as the three share their perspectives on marshalling the enthusiasm of resources while building a future based on realistic financial goals.
208: Lessons in vulnerability and candor with Howard Teibel and Lampros Fatsis
This week on the show, we invite our colleague Lampros Fatsis to explore our Group Coaching Program and share lessons learned in personal transformation.
196: What a higher ed conference can teach us about provocation, storytelling, and staying engaged as we age
Last month, I had the opportunity to have my perspective tested. As someone that works in higher education, you might think that’s not much of a novelty. On the contrary — none of us is immune to cemented positions and calcified opinions. The NACUBO 2018 Annual Meeting was a chance for me to face some of my own, and I walked away with three experiences I wanted to share this week.
189: Preparing Grads for the World Beyond the Walls with Bentley President Gloria Larson
Bentley University President Gloria Larson returns to Navigating Change this week to share the story of her new book, Prepared U: How Innovative Colleges Drive Student Success. “How you go to college is more important than where you go to school,” says President Larson. In the book — and her work at Bentley University — Larson demonstrates the changes required for institutions to deliver both the hard skills and soft, and help cultivate graduates ready for the challenges ahead.
180: Challenging our Blindspots — Moods, Assessments, and Assertions with Author Gloria Flores
This week, we welcome Gloria Flores to the show, co-founder and President of Pluralistic Networks. In her work, Gloria is committed to developing innovative ways for people to learn to collaborate, to listen, to build trust, and to build value for each other. Of particular interest to her is the creation of learning environments that will enable people to develop what many describe as “soft skills,” but that really should be referred as “crucial skills” for today’s world.
161: Exploring Education as Fiction with Professor Brad Allenby
Professor Brad Allenby maps the changes in higher education to grand revolutions of European history, that of the Glorious British Revolution of 1688 or the French Revolution leading to the Reign of Terror. As a faculty member at Arizona State University, Dr. Allenby has seen first hand the pressure building in the classroom and beyond it.
145: Engaging in Failure and Creativity with First American's Chad Wiedenhofer
How do you get people to engage in a conversation around failure? According to our guest, “you can see in organizations where iteration and the failure that might come with it is accepted as something that can be positive, and something that can help us get to the destination we’re trying to get to.” Creating a culture of iteration, and adapting toward a state in which you see failure as growth is a challenge, but one worth taking. SVP of First American Education Finance Chad Wiedenhofer joins us today to talk about iteration and growth.
139: Taking Risks, Releasing Control, and Strategic Planning with Valparaiso U. President Mark Heckler
Mark Heckler has served as president of Valparaiso University since 2008. In his tenure so far, the institution has achieved some notable wins: expanded facilities, expanded academic programs and a five-year campaign achieving the largest fundraising goal ever achieved by a Lutheran University. Today, Dr. Heckler is overseeing the implementation of the most expansive and comprehensive strategic plan in the university’s 150-year history.
124: Power, Control & Shared Governance
Today, Howard and Pete talk about the tools and controls in place to help leaders come to agreement and craft a model of shared governance each can be proud to own.
122: Live from EACUBO 2015 — Gregg Goldman and Dave Button on Common Interests, Common Challenges of CBOs
This week on Navigating Change we're once again recording live from the Cheers Lounge at the EACUBO Annual Meeting in Philadelphia. Howard Teibel hosts a conversation this week with two esteemed guests: Gregg Goldman, SVP and CFO at The University of Arizona and Chair of NACUBO, and Dave Button, CBO at the University of Regina in Saskatchewan and past president of CAUBO. Each brings a unique perspective on the state of CBO readiness for complexity in the coming year, and they uncover a series of fascinating parallels in the state of higher education between the US and Canada.
121: Live from EACUBO 2015—The Regional Presidents Gather!
This week on Navigating Change we’re recording live from the Cheers Lounge at the EACUBO Annual Meeting in Philadelphia. Howard Teibel has gathered the regional presidents for a conversation on the state of higher ed after a day of learning in sessions.
