Getting to Yes: Building Consensus Through Controversy and Change
Three tools campus leaders can use this year to read the room, work through disagreement, and make decisions that last.
Leading change on a campus means working with people who are each on their own timeline, carrying their own interests, and operating inside a governance model where influence matters as much as authority. The leader driving the change has had months to process it. Everyone else in the room is weighing it for the first time, through a different lens, with different stakes. How those discussions are structured determines whether a decision sticks.
A 24-year study of 2,668 change initiatives found that projects with effective change management are seven times more likely to meet their objectives.
In this 60-minute session, we'll cover:
How to read the room using a research-backed framework that shows you where you're losing people in the change process
How to surface real objections before they go underground and stall everything
How to move a group from competing priorities to a decision everyone can actively support
We'll save time for live Q&A. Submit your question in advance when you register — or bring it live on the day.
Host: Kevin Sanders, D.M.A., A.C.C.
Kevin has spent 20+ years in higher education, many of those in leadership as a chair and dean. He's a certified change management practitioner, executive coach, and trained facilitator who works with institutions on strategic planning and aligning leadership teams.