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Spring Fever & Frivolity
Higher ed institutions worldwide started getting back into the spirit of April Foolishness for 2022...
Bright ideas to help your team emerge from turbulence with newfound flexibility and innovation...
Strategic Foresight
Emerging global trends in education, technology, marketing, students and society... delivered DAILY to your inbox, free!
Speaking Out about Mental Health
Carleton U president Benoit-Antoine Bacon speaks frankly about his own journey to mental health, and his advice for students.
Ken has 9 NEW keynote/workshop titles specifically addressing the impacts of COVID19 on higher education...
Look your Best Online
10 tips from years of experience: How to look (and sound) professional in webconferences.
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!

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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