Elevate, Empower, Excel

High-Touch, High-Impact Strategies for Higher Ed Leaders

The Acclivity provides high-touch, one-on-one coaching for higher education professionals navigating complex roles and transitions across campus life. We work with senior leaders, faculty, administrators, and staff—not through packaged programs, but through strategic, highly customized engagements. Whether you’re leading from within or preparing for what’s next, our approach is grounded in discretion, clarity, and long-term leadership impact.

Now, through our Search Partnership Track, we also work directly with internal search committees and external firms to elevate candidate readiness and ensure mission-aligned leadership transitions.

“My mission is to demystify the path to success in higher education for faculty, administrators, and staff, empowering you to reach new heights in your academic career.
Let’s embark on this transformative journey together!”

~ Dr. Loren M. Hill

I will forever be grateful to Loren for giving me the necessary “kick” that launched my direction toward full professor. I consider her to be a trusted professional, and am honored to be her friend and colleague.

Dr. Donald Schultz

Core Faculty Professor, The Chicago School of Professional Psychology

Dr. Hill breathed new life into my career at a time when I felt lost and trampled by academia. Her ability to understand my unique role in higher ed as a practitioner-scholar was so integral to the success of our work together. Her skill set and background as a psychologist makes a real difference as a coach who can support the whole academician on our promotion and career development journeys. She was also a joy to work with, and she knows what she’s doing!

Alison Black

I am encouraged by Dr. Hill's readiness and towering abilities to work with individuals and communities alike, whether she teaches and advises in the sacrosanct ivory towers of academia, or in those common, coarse venues--the streets--where real life is often transacted well before it arrives at, or is translated in, the psychologist's office.