Change is emotional before it is operational.
We help leaders in higher education and independent schools navigate institutional change with clarity, compassion, and structure, drawing on thirty years of practice.
Most consulting begins with a problem to solve. For thirty years, we've started somewhere different — by asking what the change is actually asking of the people involved, and helping leaders in higher education and independent schools build the shared language, structured practices, and trust that answer requires.
Leadership & Strategy
Direct advisory work with executive teams — strategic planning, culture transformation, leadership alignment, and change management, tailored to each institution's moment.
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Education Programs
Cohort-based programs that build leadership capacity across an institution — from the four-month Online Leadership Program to the Leadership Institute's intensive workshops.
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Coaching Services
One-to-one and team coaching that supports sustained behavior change — offered as a standalone engagement or woven into broader strategy work.
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Leadership & Strategy
HIGH IMPACT CONSULTING ENGAGEMENTS
We work alongside executive leaders and senior teams in higher education and independent schools to strengthen alignment, clarify strategy, and accelerate decision-making when it matters most. Every engagement is customized to your institutional context — but every engagement also draws on thirty years of frameworks and practice. That combination is what lets us meet an institution exactly where it is, without starting from scratch.
ENGAGEMENT TYPES
Executive and board/cabinet alignment initiatives
Strategic planning and implementation design
Leadership team effectiveness & culture transformation
Change management for institutional priorities
Leadership transitions
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Education Programs
SCALABLE LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT
Our consulting work shows up in a single room at a time. Our education programs take the same frameworks — the same shared language, the same structured practice — and make them available to leaders across an institution. Two programs, two formats, one conviction: that leadership is built through practice, not delivered through content.
Online Leadership Program (OLP)
Built on a conviction: leadership development doesn't end with what you know — it begins with how you lead. Bi-weekly live sessions, small-group learning, and embedded coaching give working administrators the shared language, practical tools, and structured practice to lead differently in every conversation, every decision, and every room they walk into.
Built for the rhythms of higher education. No travel required.
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The Chronicle Leadership Institute
A concentrated program for leaders who want to move quickly. Three intensive workshops across two weeks, bridging diverse institutional perspectives and giving participants the frameworks and shared language to return to their own institutions and put new practices to work immediately.
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Coaching Services
“Through our partnership with Teibel Education, UW Tacoma strengthened its leadership culture, deepened trust across the team, and built a stronger foundation for coordination and strategic action.”
SYLVIA JAMES
Vice Chancellor
University of Washington Tacoma
