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Strategic Advisory Services Resource Hub

Welcome to the Strategic Advisory Services Resource Hub! The resources in this hub are designed to serve your leadership team, strategic task forces, committees, and teams as you seek to accelerate progress on core initiatives and implement change with confidence. We invite you to:

Register for upcoming events to hear about innovations from across the sector and network with peers
Sign up for partner services to receive custom recommendations and advisory support for campus-wide initiatives
Browse our library of research and implementation tools to uncover best-practice insights

Have a question about your partnership or want to speak to an expert? Connect with us at [email protected] or contact your EAB Strategic Leader, or learn more about Strategic Advisory Services here.

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Join us for our IGNITED series where presidents, provosts, chief business officers, and heads of strategy will convene to hear EAB’s latest research and network with peers.

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Areas of Inquiry

Strategic Advisory Services has many Areas of Inquiry where we conduct ongoing research to address your toughest challenges on campus and offer actionable advice. In each of the areas you’ll find tools for decision support, stakeholder education, and implementation of best practices.

Academic Innovation: Transform the academy and prepare for the future of programming and research
Admin, Finance, and Operations: Deploy campus assets to advance institutional priorities
Advancement: Ensure fundraising growth with our strategic and operational guidance
Blueprint for Growth: Inform growth strategies across your portfolio
Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Justice: Prioritize equity-related gaps and take action

Dynamic Strategy: Embed agility, prioritize strategic bets, and articulate a differentiated value proposition
IT Strategy: Shore up retention and build a more talent-resilient IT organization
People and Workplace Culture: Build competitive applicant pools and hold on to top performers
Professional and Adult Education: Lead campus innovation and market responsiveness in online, continuing ed, and other adult education
Student Experience and Well-being: Safeguard student success and mental health

Upcoming Events

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Roundtable

Strategy Spotlight: How to Process Map Your Transfer Student Experience (Part II)

This session is the second of two Strategy Spotlights focused on process mapping. Attendees learned about East Carolina University (ECU)'s thorough process mapping of their transfer student experience in the first session.

Roundtable

2025 Roundtable for Chief Business Officers

Please join us in Washington, D.C. this spring for our signature in-person roundtable for chief business officers.

Summit

EAB IgnitED

EAB's annual IgnitED summit will bring together presidents, provosts, chief business officers, and heads of strategy in working sessions with peers from other institutions.

Past Events

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Roundtable

Preview EAB’s 2025 Research on Campus Space

An institution's campus is one of its greatest assets, yet also one of its biggest expenses. Given increasing infrastructure costs and shifting demands for campus space, more institutions are interested in making best use of their built environment.

Roundtable

Change Management Workshop for Chief Strategy Officers

Given fast-changing market pressures, there is a growing urgency for campus leaders to initiate more and larger-scale change initiatives simultaneously.

Roundtable

Special Session for Leading Research Universities: 2025 EAB Chief Business Officer Roundtable

Please join EAB Managing Director Ann Forman Lippens and University of California, Berkeley’s Vice Chancellor, Administration, Marc Fisher for an intimate convening of Chief Business Officers from leading research institutions to engage on the pressing issues facing the higher education sector.