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For our Inaugural Leadership Discovery Weekend Program
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What is the Transformation Collaborative?
Thought Leaders Who Execute!™
Very simply, the TC is an affiliation of world class professionals, founded by Dr. Wallace Pond and Anthony Bieda in response to an existential crisis in higher education. From their shared vantage point as educators, functional experts, executives, board trustees, their CEO and entrepreneur roles in education and the private sector, and their thought leadership as authors and researchers in higher education, the partners of the TC could no longer stand by and watch institutions struggle—and even fail—due to their inability to recognize and act on the need for transformative change, when viable solutions and best practices for today’s reality are readily available.
We founded the TC because we insist on a values-based organization that cares deeply about people, about equity for humans rather than for investors, and about education as the means to solving significant societal challenges.
Making the World a Better Place
We start from: Make the world a better place and build from there. A foundational element of the TC’s purpose is to ensure that clients, affiliates, partners, and society at large benefit from their association with the Transformation Collaborative and that the world is better off as a result of our efforts.
What We Do
The Transformation Collaborative’s practice is based on driving transformation and reinvention with a holistic, “embedded,” and long-term partnership. We think transformationally rather than transactionally, approaching foundational change with a comprehensive, integrated view of the institution, supporting sustainable transformation with compelling strategy, a life-changing educational model, aligned culture, capacity building, value proposition & market differentiation, a robust business model, and best practice operations.
A different enterprise.
Driven by different revenue streams.
Aligned with relevant resources.
Stripped of ceremony and pretense, the delivery of effective education in a transformational context requires intense review of fundamental questions: 1. What do we deliver that has value? 2. Who is willing to recognize that value and provide funding for its delivery? 3. How much and through what mechanisms?” In short, The Transformation Collaborative™ grounds it research, analytics and counsel on continuous exploration of the value proposition in contemporary markets. Based on careful and sustained observation and measurement, The Transformation Collaborative™ assumes the answers are, “We’re not certain,” “We don’t know anymore” and “In amounts and via methods that look nothing like before.”
Changes in the revenue sources for institutions at risk have been accelerated by forces of nature: a pandemic, technology, demographics, consumer expectations and to a lesser degree, politics. When the source funding is public state or federal, the changes are reactive and lagging, never leading edge or anticipatory. By the time policy catches up with the market, many aspects of the value proposition have changed inexorably.
The Transformation Collaborative™ builds enterprise structure, systems and practices that are deeply rooted in fidelity to the value proposition, with an unwavering commitment to knowledge of and responsiveness to the needs of clients and customers. It encourages leadership to query themselves and their teams frequently regarding, “What value are we adding today? How do we know? Can our customers recognize that value and are they willing to offer resources in exchange?” From the systematic and data-driven inquiries flows a flexible, dynamic and effective operational culture that embraces change and celebrates adaptation, innovation and transformation. Transformation as a destination becomes transformation as a process, a culture, a mode of operation. Access to resources becomes more predictable, manageable, diverse and robust.
Contact Us
Feel free to contact us with any questions.
Email
service@transformationcollaborative.net
Phone
719-344-8195
Address
802 Misty Lake Circle
Louisville, KY 40245