Influencing Change: Data, Power, and Motivation Webinar

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Watch our on-demand webinar to explore the five principles that will help you transform your campus leadership culture to be more data-informed and supportive of your institutional goals.

  • On our webinar, you will learn how to:

    • Effectively use the five principles of influence
    • Overcome common factors that undermine influence
    • Understand the intersection of power and motivation
    • Identify the right influence strategy to leverage depending on the situation
    • Drive behavioral change on your campus and strengthen longer-term initiatives

  • Meet Our Leadership Expert



    Rodger Patience, Director and Faculty Member

    Rodger Patience is a Director and Faculty Member on EAB’s Academic Performance Solutions team. He works with both member-facing colleagues and the DC-based team of data scientists and software developers to help improve academic decision making and benchmarking. As a faculty member at EAB since 2014, Rodger has coached leaders in higher education on topics such as leading amidst uncertainty, change management, accountability, the foundations of finance, and the art of data-driven conversation.

    Prior to joining the firm in 2014, Rodger spent 15 years in database management for fundraising and business process improvement, first at the Field Museum of Natural History and then at Northwestern Memorial Hospital (NMH), an academic medical center in downtown Chicago. Rodger holds a BA in English from Eastern Illinois University and is currently pursuing coursework at Bexley Seabury Seminary and Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management.

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