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351: How to Measure Your Impact in Higher Education: A Case Study from my 2025 Impact Report

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Her 2025 audience count reached over 71,000 people globally through workshops, the podcast, and LinkedIn Learning.

1. Grad School FemToring episode 351 focuses on measuring impact in higher education through Dr. Yvette Martinez-Boo's 2025 impact report. 2. Dr. Yvette Martinez-Boo is the host, certified coach, consultant, and author who uses her own report as the case study. 3. The episode asks how people in higher education and adjacent work can quantify impact without reducing it to vanity metrics. 4. She opens by describing first-quarter 2025 budget cuts, eliminated programs, disappearing grants, and lost jobs across higher education. 5. She says those institutional changes also hit people outside institutions, including her own revenue sources. 6. Her response was a set of “intentional micro pivots” rather than returning to a traditional nine-to-five job. 7. She ties that response to her word of the year, “nurture,” and says she focused on relationships with colleagues, clients, friends, and listeners. 8. She defines an impact report as a document or narrative that explains the difference a person's work has made over a set period of time. 9. She says impact reports can include activities, relationships, and quantifiable outcomes for a program, an organization, or an individual. 10. She argues that impact reporting makes invisible labor visible, especially for people of color, femmes, and women. 11. She says the exercise can support personal growth and professional development because it helps translate work into language institutions recognize. 12. Her own 2025 visibility data showed more than 71,000 people globally accessing her work through workshops, the podcast, and LinkedIn Learning. 13. She expected only a few thousand people, so the 71,000 figure surprised her. 14. She tracked 25 speaking engagements, including 16 workshops, and says 60% of those gigs came from returning partners. 15. She interprets those repeat bookings as evidence that institutions still found her work meaningful despite tight budgets. 16. Her audience feedback showed 99% of respondents found her work valuable and 98% said they would attend again. 17. She says she adapted by offering more virtual and pre-recorded workshops, licensing digital resources, and creating a new group coaching program. 18. She describes the episode as practical and reflective, with an emphasis on tracking, assessment, and giving yourself credit. 19. Listeners who work in higher education, coaching, or student support will get a usable framework here. 20. Listeners looking for theory without personal examples may find the data-heavy structure less useful.

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