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Virtual Presentations
Ken Steele has been delivering conference keynotes, leadership retreats, and campus workshops ONLINE since 2016, delivering on the promise: Eyes Opened, Minds Blown!
COVID-19 on Campus
We've been tracking COVID-19 announcements and responses daily, at 80 colleges and universities across Canada.
Immediate Impacts
of COVID-19 closed campuses and dorms, threw millions online, and derailed grades, athletics, convocations and more...
Near-Term Impacts
of COVID-19 will radically transform the 2020-21 academic year, from funding cuts and closed borders to empty dorms, economic recession, and a wide range of legal challenges.
Strategic Priorities
Higher ed needs to invest in online pedagogy, adopt VR tools, and partner with MOOCs, OPMs, consortia and each other to prepare for a very different 2020-21 academic year.
Pandemic Scale:
Epidemiologists and Economists alike forecast a crisis that will last 6-12 months.
Coping with COVID-19
A separate summary of crisis communications efforts and challenges at Canadian colleges and universities

Ten with Ken

Catch the latest episodes of Ken Steele’s “almost-weekly” ten-minute video webcast, Ten with Ken.

9 Forces for Change in Higher Education

Ken sums up the 9 key external pressures on colleges and universities for the next 2 decades, from demographics and funding challenges to evolving students, and rapid industry and workforce changes. Read more

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The Higher Education Innovation Spectrum

In response to the 9 forces for change, colleges and universities are innovating in a multiplicity of ways: seeking efficiencies and scale, collaborating, generating new revenue streams, adapting teaching methods and student services, partnering with industry and innovating in programs, physical campus, and more. Read more

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10 Ways to Nurture a Culture of Innovation

A dozen Ontario university presidents and senior administrators share their thoughts on how to nurture a culture of innovation on campus, in this 3-part series of Ten with Ken, shot on location at the 2017 Ontario Universities' Fair. Read more

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Waterloo’s Innovation Ecosystem

While the “Ten with Ken” team was at the University of Waterloo to profile the Velocity incubator, we sat down with President & Vice-Chancellor Feridun Hamdullahpur to discuss the overall innovation ecosystem at what has been ranked Canada’s #1 most innovative university for the past 25 years. Read more

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Innovative Thinking

Articles & White Papers

Read some of Ken’s published articles and white papers, including an overview of the Canadian PSE landscape, a defence of marketing in the academy, an introduction to institutional reputation and brand positioning, and thoughts on how colleges should prepare for 2025. Even download Canada’s first book on Strategic Enrolment Management!

Virtual Retreats & PD

For two decades, Ken Steele has been Canada’s most in-demand presenter on higher ed trends and innovations in pedagogy, branding and institutional strategy. Now you can bring him to your board, leadership group, or the entire campus community virtually for campus lectures and conference keynotes, and facilitating board retreats and workshops. Learn More

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