OUR SERVICES
High-Touch, High-Impact Strategies for Higher Ed Leaders
At The Acclivity, we provide confidential, strategic coaching to higher education professionals in roles that are essential, demanding, and too often unsupported. Our White Glove approach delivers practical, high-impact strategies tailored to the unique dynamics of higher education.
This is not training. It’s not a group program. It’s an elite level of one-on-one guidance that equips you to navigate your role with clarity, confidence, and presence.
WHAT WE DO
We work with higher ed professionals across the institutional spectrum: faculty, senior administrators, and staff. Each engagement is bespoke, built around your career stage, institutional context, and leadership goals.
Our work focuses on three core outcomes:
- • Clarity about where you’re going and how to get there
- • Confidence in how you show up and make decisions
- • Sustainability for the long term
We are your strategic partner, not just a coach—providing perspective, accountability, and support that evolves as your role evolves.
OUR PURPOSE
Higher education is in flux. From public scrutiny to post-pandemic fatigue and growing questions about value, the system is under pressure.
Faculty, staff, and administrators are expected to manage performance, equity, morale, and perception—often without the support needed to succeed.
Women, BIPOC, and first-gen professionals often carry the greatest burdens with the least backing. We provide high-touch, identity-informed support that helps them move forward with clarity and conviction.
OUR APPROACH: WHITE GLOVE, NEVER ONE-SIZE-FITS-ALL
The Acclivity’s White Glove coaching is grounded in strategy, discretion, and deep institutional insight. Every engagement includes:
- • Strategic guidance informed by real-world leadership dynamics
- • Executive-level insight that connects identity to action
- • Confidential, high-touch coaching that evolves with your career
- • Tools for leading at every level, regardless of title or tenure
Our goal is not to help you fit the mold. It’s to help you lead on your own terms—with vision and strength.
FOR FACULTY
Positioning Your Scholarship. Advancing Your Leadership. With Unmatched Precision.
We help tenured, tenure-track, and adjunct faculty step into their leadership potential without sacrificing their academic identity. Our work focuses on:
- • Preparing for promotion and tenure with purpose and clarity
- • Expanding scholarly visibility and public impact
- • Navigating the transition from faculty to administrative leadership
- • Gaining recognition and influence within and beyond your institution
Whether you’re building a national research presence or preparing for a department chair role, we bring structure, focus, and strategy to your next step.
FOR STAFF
Your Leadership. Elevated with Thoughtful, Tailored Strategy.
Staff professionals are essential to higher ed, yet often receive the least leadership support. We work with directors, associate deans, and administrative professionals who are ready to grow. Our services focus on:
- • Gaining visibility for the work you already do
- • Making a confident move into leadership
- • Communicating your value across the institution
- • Developing a leadership identity that aligns with your goals
We meet you where you are, and help you take the next strategic step forward.
FOR SENIOR ADMINISTRATORS
Executive-Level Strategy. Personalized Leadership Navigation.
We support provosts, deans, vice presidents, and other academic executives with precision-crafted strategies for today’s complex leadership landscape. Our work includes:
- • Transition planning for new executive roles
- • Refining presence, communication, and visibility
- • Navigating institutional change and internal politics
- • Balancing personal leadership goals with public accountability
This is confidential, concierge-level coaching for decision-makers who need expert perspective, strategic clarity, and a trusted partner.
FOR SEARCH COMMITTEES
We offer strategic support at every stage of the search process:
- • Pre-Search Consultation
We help you define and refine what success looks like — clarifying - the leadership qualities and lived experiences your institution needs
- most right now.
- • Candidate Readiness Assessment
We offer insight into candidate preparation, positioning, and the - often overlooked elements that reveal leadership potential beyond traditional markers.
- • Committee Coaching
We provide guidance on crafting outreach, evaluating applications - through a leadership-focused lens, and interviewing in ways that
- surface authentic strengths — not just rehearsed responses.
- • Process Reflection
Post-search, we facilitate debriefs that capture lessons learned and - set the foundation for stronger future searches.
At every step, our goal is to support your committee in attracting not just candidates, but the right candidates — leaders who are aligned with your institution’s mission, challenges, and future aspirations.
WHAT SETS US APART?
The Acclivity “White Glove” Approach
Confidential, high-touch, high-integrity coaching engagements
Strategic guidance tailored to real-life institutional complexity
No templates, no jargon—just expert insight and meaningful support
A trusted partner who understands the pressures of higher ed leadership from the inside out
OUR FRAMEWORK
- • Identity-Driven Strategy: Lead from who you are, not just the job description
- • Relational Power: Build influence with integrity
• Sustainable Leadership: Lead in a way that lasts—for you and your institution
WHO WE WORK WITH
- • Presidents, Provosts, and Deans
- • Faculty, administrators, and staff with leadership responsibilities
- • Rising leaders from historically excluded communities
- • Executives in transition or navigating high-stakes moments
THE BOTTOM LINE: This is not coaching as usual. The Acclivity is a strategic shift in how higher ed leadership—at all levels—is supported and sustained.
If you’re committed to leadership that lasts—at the individual or institutional level—The Acclivity is your partner.
ACCLIVITY
High-Touch, High-Impact Strategies for Higher Ed Leaders