Crucial Shift Consulting Higher Education Change Management company is at the forefront of helping institutions navigate complex change to meet continually evolving student, faculty, research, and patient care needs. We stand with you to accurately assess where you are, determine where you want to go, anticipate and mitigate the obstacles to getting there, and then transition methodically through obstacles to get to the desired outcomes.

 

Crucial Shift Consulting, founded by Dr. Donna M. Buchanan who has over 20 years of higher education experience navigating organizations from the inside and the outside helps institutions expand human and organizational capacity to achieve goals in the face of disruption.  What could be more important?

 

 

Build Your Future on Solid Ground

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Human Capacity-Building

• Leadership, faculty and staff professional development, assessments, workshops, retreats, and coaching

• Succession planning

• Collaborative decision-making/shared governance consultation and Team-Building

• Human transition management

• Student, customer and stakeholder engagement/conflict resolution

• Compliance and diversity consultation and training

 

Organizational Capacity-Building

• Communication protocols, systems and messaging

• Organizational assessments, restructuring and process re-engineering

• Project management change management and strategic planning

• Meeting/retreat planning and facilitation

 

Campus Pivot Team Training and Other Customized Services are Available

 

​​​​Watch more and read more about hindrances to higher ed change:  Buchanan, Donna M. 2022. “Managing Change: Five Common Hindrances to Navigating Disruption in Higher Education.” The Department Chair 33 (1): 23–25.A​