Leadership Labs are focused, live learning experiences designed to help academic leaders work through real leadership challenges and leave with practical tools they can immediately apply within their institutions.
Unlike traditional webinars, Leadership Labs are interactive, implementation-focused, and built around the realities of leading people, teams, and organizations in higher education.
Every Leadership Lab Includes
Leading Complex Teams
Communication challenges. Accountability concerns. Competing priorities. Differing work styles.
Leading Complex Teams is a three-day Leadership Lab designed to help academic leaders navigate the realities of team leadership and leave with practical tools they can immediately apply within their institutions.
- Team Complexity Action Plan
- Communication Planning Tool
- Accountability Action Framework
- Leadership Reflection Workbook
The First 90 Days Blueprint
New leadership roles come with high expectations and little margin for error.
The First 90 Days Blueprint is a three-day Leadership Lab designed to help academic leaders assess their new environment, build key relationships, establish credibility, and create a strategic roadmap for a successful leadership transition.
- First 30-Day Action Plan
- Stakeholder Mapping Template
- Leadership Transition Planning Guide
- Strategic Priority Worksheet
Complete the Summer Leadership Series
Strengthen how you lead your team now—and prepare for what comes next.
Join both Summer 2026 Leadership Labs and spend July and August developing practical tools for two of the most consequential moments in academic leadership: leading a complex team and establishing yourself successfully in a new role.
- Leading Complex Teams
- The First 90 Days Blueprint
- Six live virtual learning sessions
- All templates and implementation workbooks
- Interactive exercises and action-planning tools
- 30-day access to each Lab recording
Individual Lab value: $594
One registration includes both Summer 2026 Leadership Labs.
Reserve Your Summer Series PassDr. Nicole R. Robinson
Dr. Nicole R. Robinson is a leadership strategist, former university executive, and founder of Cultural Connections by Design and Reimagine Higher Ed.
For more than 25 years, she has worked with academic leaders navigating organizational change, leadership transitions, team dynamics, and institutional complexity.
Leadership Labs bring the same frameworks and practical tools used in executive coaching, consulting engagements, and leadership development programs into an accessible virtual format designed specifically for higher education professionals.
Leadership Reset™ Intensive: Leading Complex Teams
Leadership Labs introduce leaders to the Leadership Reset™ framework. For leaders seeking deeper assessment, implementation planning, and coaching support, the Leadership Reset™ Intensive provides an immersive leadership development experience in Belize.
February 24–26, 2027
San Pedro, Belize
The Leadership Reset™ Intensive combines assessment, coaching, strategic planning, and implementation support to help leaders navigate complex team challenges and create meaningful organizational change.
