It's a New Day
Higher Edgineer is a comprehensive change management firm focused solely on serving colleges and universities. From ideation to sustainability, Higher Edgineer provides individualized guidance and support throughout the change lifecycle to help you define your future and achieve your vision for success.
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The Higher Edgineer Difference
Higher Edgineer is owned and operated by seasoned, passionate higher education scholar-practitioners. We are not here to oversell and under-deliver expensive technology, impose proprietary frameworks mismatched to your institutional context or culture, or force one-size-fits-all corporate methods of change onto your organization. Instead, we recognize that every postsecondary institution is unique in its makeup and mission.
We take time to understand your strategic priorities and the conditions surrounding the change initiative, and then we create and facilitate change solutions tailormade for you.
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Unlike other consultants who parachute in, apply uninformed band-aids, then abandon your institution without regard for the disruption they caused, we assume an approach grounded in respect and partnership. We have lived the challenges of change in higher education settings, and we know what it takes to navigate them with skill and fidelity.
We Get It
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Improving the Stakeholder Experience
Despite your best intentions, your goal to understand and improve students', employees', and other key stakeholders’ experiences of your organization takes a backseat to crisis situations and urgent operational matters. Your capacity to think and plan strategically is consumed by the everyday noise that comes along with institutional leadership.
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If this sounds familiar, you’re not alone! It is common for college and university leaders to be well aware of persistently dismal outcomes but unable to dedicate the time and energy to identify and rectify the issues that perpetuate them.
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Higher Edgineer can help! Our consultants conduct current state analysis, stakeholder needs gathering, and organizational readiness assessment activities that help you identify pain points and develop transformational solutions to close the gap between institutional goals and actual outcomes.
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Advancing Strategic Objectives
You’ve finished the strategic plan, and you’re excited about what the future holds. Unfortunately, this is where a lot of institutional strategies stop. Garnering the buy-in and engagement of the people expected to operationalize initiatives is challenging for most colleges and universities. Change resistance, initiative fatigue, and resource limitations stand in the way of achieving your goals.
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Higher Edgineer is here to help! We customize our approach for your unique circumstances to help you challenge the status quo and overcome barriers to organizational transformation. We partner with you to develop a change management plan, monitor progress, and assess adoption throughout the strategic change journey. We engaging thoughtfully with leaders, midlevel administrators, and frontline employees to reimagine and co-create institutional practices so changes stick and your plan is executed.
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Building Organizational Change Capacity
Change is the only constant. It is a saying that's become cliché. You’ve heard it a million times, but now you realize you must do something about it. The multitude of internal and external calls for reform are inescapable. Leaders like you recognize that transformation is necessary to remain relevant, viable, and solvent but are also acutely aware of the stress organizational change inflicts on your institution.
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Although change is inescapable, it does not need to be volatile. Higher Edgineer helps colleges and universities create change-ready and resilient environments that buffer disruption and enable institutions to thrive. If enhancing your organization’s capacity for change is a priority, our consultants are ready to help you develop organizational systems and structures that fosters a culture of continuous improvement and unlocks the collective potential of your employees.
