A new reality has emerged in higher education in Canada. Funding and revenue opportunities are constrained while fixed costs continue to squeeze already limited budgets. Layoffs have been seen across the sector. If we change nothing, the outcome is predictable. To thrive, our ways of working need to evolve.
We should be optimistic and positive about the value of education while also being prepared to do the hard work necessary to facilitate change that fuels prosperity. In the midst of this change comes uncertainty and many organizations could use help on several different fronts.
Fox Education Consulting helps support transitions and evolution through three distinct offerings: project consulting, interim leadership, and people development. Success in these things is achieved through personal, practical and functional consulting and leadership guidance.
We all have projects that are important but stalled by time, money or resources. Fox Education Consulting is nimble and experienced in a broad range of higher-education priority areas:
Every organization experiences leadership changes. The real challenge is how to respond effectively to manage the change. Filling leadership roles can require long timelines. Meanwhile, the uncertainty can be unsettling. Fox Education Consulting offers a solution to this challenge: stable, thoughtful and experienced leadership to effectively support teams and their work in a transitional phase.
Navigating and managing change in higher education successfully requires direct investment in people. It is helpful to have a mentor/coach who understands the environment but isn’t in it. Choose from one-on-one mentorship or group sessions, based on your needs. Practical, human-centred guidance, coaching and mentoring are what you can expect from Fox Education Consulting.
Justin Fox, MA, MLIS (he/him) has been fortunate to do meaningful work with extraordinary peopleover a 30-year career. His higher education leadership experience is broad ranging: student affairs, enrolment management, communications, marketing, strategic planning, and organizational development. Justin believes in the power of people: the human capacity for the extraordinary.
Justin has held higher-education leadership roles in three universities (Dalhousie University, University of Calgary in Qatar, St. Francis Xavier University) and one college (Nova Scotia Community College). He is a graduate of Dalhousie University, Carleton University and St. Francis Xavier University.