Navigating Change from Teibel Education

Navigating Change is built for the difficult middle of higher education leadership. It lives where strategy, finance, culture, and human behavior collide. Recent conversations move from chief business officers reflecting on student impact to organizational scholars naming the invisible work that stalls careers. The show is careful with complexity. It does not reduce institutional change to a slogan or a new planning document. Instead, it asks what leaders notice, what they ignore, and what kinds of conversations create real movement. One episode follows Nico Washington and Bill Guerrero through questions of career purpose, intuition, and the difference between titles and impact. Another uses Laurie Weingart's work on non-promotable tasks to show how workplace norms shape who gets asked to do the unrecognized labor. A conversation with Mitch Winkler frames leadership as a discipline of clarity, trade-offs, and honest accounting. The EACUBO chair discussion turns professional association work into a study of continuity, volunteer leadership, and changing expectations after hybrid work. Other episodes press on larger redesign questions, including student-crafted education, financial resilience at Rutgers, workplace creativity with Kyle Sheely, and communication practices that move teams from agreement to action. The show has a steady editorial instinct: institutions change only when people practice different behaviors. That gives the series a grounded feel. Budgets matter here, but so do trust, attention, agency, and language. It is especially strong when guests describe the gap between knowing a better approach and embodying it under pressure. Howard is a recurring conversational presence, drawing out the personal stakes inside institutional decisions. Pete Wright appears across episodes as a framing and closing voice. Together, the show gives education leaders a forum for thinking beyond crisis management toward clearer, more durable ways of working.