Drawing on decades of experience as a senior academic leader, combined with research captured in Metrics, Mapping, and Modelling for Masterful Management in Higher Education (Emerald Press, 2025), we help colleges and universities improve their operational effectiveness, decision-making, and strategic alignment.
Why G² Educational Consulting
From Good to Golden and Gaps to Gains!
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Problems We Solve
Strategy that sounds good… but doesn’t land
- You’ve got a plan, a vision, and a slide deck people applaud—then Monday happens.
- We help translate strategy into a prioritized, resourced execution roadmap with clear owners, timelines, and measurable outcomes.
“We have data” (and still can’t answer basic questions)
- Dashboards everywhere, confidence nowhere.
- We help define the right metrics, clean up definitions, align reporting, and build a decision-ready measurement system leadership can trust.
Institutional knowledge trapped in silos (or in people’s heads)
- When key staff leave, the “how we do things” leaves with them.
- We help capture, map, and operationalize institutional knowledge—so it’s findable, teachable, and improvable.
Process pain: manual work, duplicate entry, and workaround culture
- If your operations rely on heroic effort and “that one person who knows,” you’re paying an invisible tax.
- We streamline workflows, clarify handoffs, and reduce friction with practical automation.
Reports, compliance, and accreditation that feel like a second job
- You’re producing mountains of documentation but not extracting learning from it.
- We help turn compliance work into a management asset—tight evidence, clear narratives, and reusable reporting.
Cross-unit coordination that’s always harder than it should be
- Academic affairs, finance, IR, IT, student services—each is rational locally and chaotic collectively.
- We help build shared language, shared models, and shared operating rhythms.
Change efforts that stall in politics, fatigue, or ambiguity
- Change isn’t a memo; it’s a social system.
- We help design change that sticks: communication, stakeholder alignment, governance, feedback loops, and early wins that build momentum.
Technology investments that underperform
- New tools don’t fix old processes.
- We help align tech choices with workflows and outcomes—so systems get adopted, used well, and measured for impact.
Community-building and knowledge-sharing that needs structure
- You want a living ecosystem—people contributing practical resources, not just consuming content.
- We help design the “engine”: participation pathways, contributor support, curation, and sustainable governance.
Why Our Approach Works
More than recommendations: operational capability that sticks
- We don’t just advise—we leave you with a working management system. Roadmaps, templates, decision cadences, and governance you can run without us.
- Built for adoption, not applause. We sequence work to reduce change fatigue and produce early wins that create momentum.
A researcher-practitioner approach (evidence-informed, Tuesday-ready)
- Scholarship translated into operations. We connect research methods to real workflows, decisions, and measurable outcomes.
- Metrics you can trust. Shared definitions, clean reporting, and dashboards tied to decisions—not vanity data.
- Clarity over complexity. When the institution is messy, the management system shouldn’t be.
Knowledge infrastructure, not “tribal knowledge”
- Capture how the institution actually works. We map processes, dependencies, and responsibilities so knowledge is findable and teachable—especially through turnover.
- A living model, not static documentation. Institutional knowledge becomes usable, navigable, and improvable over time.
- Better cross-unit coordination. Shared language and shared models reduce friction between Academic Affairs, Finance, IR, IT, and Student Services.
A consulting relationship that compounds value
- You benefit from a continuously improving playbook. With your permission, we turn lessons learned into reusable tools and resources—so each engagement gets smarter.
- Community-informed, practice-tested. Insights are grounded in what higher-ed leaders are actually doing successfully, not just what “should” work.
- Respectful partnership. We work with your team, not around them—building confidence as well as outcomes.
Shared Learning That Prevents Reinventing the Wheel
- With your permission, we translate project lessons into reusable templates, playbooks, and resources—so you benefit from what’s already worked at peer institutions and vice-versa.
- We connect your team to a broader ecosystem of proven practices, accelerating implementation while reducing trial-and-error and duplicate effort.
“We need help… but we don’t want a 200-page report”
- You want hands-on progress, not consultant theater.
- We focus on practical deliverables: decision frameworks, working templates, implementable processes, and capability-building for your team.
Through consulting, the HELLO Community, and accessible community resources, we partner with institutions to develop more coherent structures, more confident managers, and more transparent processes.
Testimonials
President, Ferrum College. Virginia. Working with Dr. Glynn has been an exceptional experience. His strategic insight, problem-solving acumen, and ability to quickly understand and address complex challenges set him apart….
