This Fall Season of The Higher Ed Marketer Podcast is proudly sponsored by NextGrad.

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A calendar filled with other people’s priorities can quietly turn leadership into nonstop reaction. Kathy Kissane, Founder and Executive Coach at Create What’s Next Coaching, explains how higher ed leaders can reclaim space to think, lead proactively, and design the next chapter of their work. She shares a simple three-question weekly check-in that turns reflection into one concrete action.

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What We Cover in This Episode

🔘 Why higher ed’s cycles and stakeholders intensify reactive leadership

🔘 How a leader’s calendar reveals what truly receives priority

🔘 What changes when leaders plan in decades instead of weeks

🔘 The three questions that build a proactive weekly habit

🔘 How small scheduled actions create momentum and develop others

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Episode Highlights

02:02 - Why campus leaders become trapped in reaction mode

07:09 - The personal and organizational cost of staying reactive

09:27 - Interrupting the pattern before the work fills every opening

11:08 - Treating the calendar as a leadership tool

19:06 - Kathy’s three-question weekly check-in

22:38 - Turning reflection into one scheduled next step

27:20 - Giving emerging leaders permission to lead differently

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