Learn and apply
Translate the LEADERS Model into decisions, conversations, and team practices.
Planned for 2027 · Enrollment details forthcoming
The LEADERS Institute
A guided leadership-development experience for chairs, directors, deans, and academic administrators. Grounded in workplace science and applied to your people systems, the Institute turns the LEADERS Model into decisions, conversations, and team practices you can use immediately.
Results, not just content
Clearer role and priorities
Diagnose ambiguity and make expectations and decision rights explicit.
Stronger team effectiveness
Improve trust, communication, and how the team works together.
Evidence-based decisions
Use data and assessment to guide people decisions fairly.
Coaching that sticks
Apply feedback and growth practices in mission-driven environments.
How it works
Build leadership capability in context
Use your leader workspace
Your assigned journey, assessments, coaching, action plans, and tools live in the separate Academic People Systems Platform.
Sustain the work
Develop an implementation plan and connect with continued support following your program.
Coaching
Assessments
Action plans
The LEADERS Model, applied
1
Learn
Leadership identity, institutional context, and people-system realities
2
Establish
Expectations, roles, priorities, norms, and early leadership signals
3
Activate
Trust, communication, engagement, belonging, and wellbeing
4
Develop
Leadership, team, faculty, staff, and talent capability
5
Elevate
Aligning people systems with strategy and institutional priorities
6
Review
Feedback, data, fairness, and accountability
7
Sustain
Continuity, succession, and systems that outlast one leader
Leader program participation is distinct from practitioner Academic I/O Certification. Enrollment and assigned access determine available resources; there is no separate academic-leader membership offer.
Start before the Institute
Join free Workplace Science in Practice LIVE and Academic Leader Exchange conversations, explore paid Strategy Labs, or begin an intake for coaching or a team challenge.
October 2026, December 2027
What’s ahead
Our planning outlook connects community, workplace science, and applied development. Dates shown are drawn from the current plan; registration, enrollment, and delivery depend on published program details. All scheduled times are Eastern Time (ET).
FALL TRANSITION
October 2026
Prepare your leadership context, current priorities, and development goals.
FALL TRANSITION
November 2026
Connect workplace challenges with the Navigator, coaching, and a focused action plan.
FALL TRANSITION
December 2026
Review progress and identify priorities for the coming year.
Your confirmed cohort, assessment, and coaching appointments remain in Sessions. This outlook does not change your enrollment or assigned access.