The best mentors aren't the ones who push hardest — they're the ones who can tell who's actually ready to leap. Recorded hours after his own sunrise wedding, Bradley Olin on courage, discernment, and why you can't want someone's growth more than they do.

Higher education is in a season that asks the most of the people who love it most — so why do they keep volunteering for more? Robyn Pennington and Lori Seager join Howard Teibel on the courage it takes to lead before you feel ready, and the mentorship that, it turns out, runs both directions.

Eighty percent of the reason AI initiatives fail has nothing to do with the technology. James Taylor sits down with Howard Teibel at WACUBO to talk about what makes up that eighty percent — and what higher education leaders are still missing.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

This week on the show, we invite our colleague Lampros Fatsis to explore our Group Coaching Program and share lessons learned in personal transformation.

Howard Teibel moderated a panel of three financial officers at the NACUBO 2018 Annual Meeting to hear the stories from private and public institutions who are empowering members of their campus community to play a key role in driving innovative change.

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.

Peter Denning joins us today in a conversation about what it is to be a beginner and the power of facing our moods of discomfort and confusion that mark being a beginner. He shares with us his own journey along with his learning about mood and how to move in the world from his learning with Dr. Fernando Flores and Gloria Flores.

Dr. Don Heller joins us today to talk about his unique perspective on both the Penn State and Michigan tragedies as we try to come to terms with how we as leaders in education can better prepare our institutions for the worst case scenario — a scenario for which we have such limited experience in facing head-on.

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.