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Disruption is unfolding faster than higher education’s systems were designed to handle. Political pressure, financial volatility, and skepticism about higher ed’s value are forcing leaders to make bolder decisions under intense scrutiny—often at the same moment campus communities are seeking stability. This tension increases the risk that difficult decisions stall or are reversed before they have time to take effect.
For leaders, the challenge is no longer just making the right call, but sustaining momentum through backlash, fatigue, and leadership turnover. In this environment, institutional agility depends on executive resilience—the ability to maintain alignment and follow-through long enough for hard decisions to deliver results.
Join EAB experts in examining:
- Why well-founded decisions so often fail to stick, and how governance norms, incentives, and leadership transitions undermine follow-through
- What executive resilience looks like in practice, including how leaders sustain momentum after initial resistance
- How institutions are hardwiring agility into their systems, so progress continues even amid turnover, scrutiny, and prolonged disruption
