You're Ready for the Next Level.
Lead Like It.
A four-month development experience for new and rising student affairs leaders. Sharpen your executive thinking and grow alongside a trusted cohort of peers.
Takes about three minutes. Not a commitment.
Built for Senior and Rising Student Affairs Leaders
You've moved beyond managing programs. Now you're navigating presidents, budgets, and institutional politics, often without a roadmap or peers who understand the altitude.
This program was built for exactly that moment. Not a conference. Not a webinar. A sustained cohort experience that develops executive-level thinking.
Four Months. One Trusted Cohort.
A Different Kind of Development.
Live Sessions in Your Cohort
Twice-a-month, 90-minute virtual sessions with no more than 10 fellow leaders. Real conversation, never a passive webinar.
Individualized Executive Coaching
Two private sessions focused entirely on your context and growth. Additional sessions available as add-ons.
Executive Tools & Frameworks
Board report templates, budget matrices, crisis checklists. A toolkit you'll use long after the program ends.
Frameworks and Principles
Research and frameworks paired with the realities of missional institutions. Theory that earns its place by being useful.
Learning through Case Studies
Work through realistic scenarios like budget cuts and campus crises, and bring your own live challenges to the group.
A Network That Lasts
Each small cohort of peers becomes a professional network you'll carry through your career.
How Leaders Grow Here
Twice a month, the cohorts gather for structured, expertly facilitated sessions built for connection and application, never lecture. Between sessions, private executive coaching, supplemental resources, and personal connections turns group insight into individual growth.
The result is leadership competency built the way it actually develops: grounded in ideas, tested against reality, and sharpened in trusted company.
The Terrain Every Rising Executive Must Learn
Across four months, you'll build competency in the domains every institutional leader must master.
Institutional Leadership
Governance, boards, and executive influence at the cabinet level.
Stewardship
Budgets, enrollment realities, and principled decisions under pressure.
Crisis & Change
Steadiness when the campus is watching, and momentum when it resists.
People & Culture
Developing leaders and building teams where belonging drives results.
Worth Asking Your Institution to Invest In
Many participants use institutional professional development funds, and the case is easy to make. For less than one national conference, your institution gets a leader who returns every month with sharper thinking and practical tools.
Want help making the ask? Mention it in your application. We're happy to provide language and a one-page summary for your supervisor.
The Value Comparison
Guided by Leaders Who've Sat in the Chair
ASI's leadership program is led by Dr. Joshua Arnold and Dr. Ian Slater, co-founders of ASI Campus Partners, drawing on deep VP and cabinet-level experience. Every cohort is co-facilitated by an ASI Campus Partner alongside another seasoned higher education executive, and features guest speakers throughout the program, including college presidents and senior leaders.
Meet Josh and Ian →Two Ways to Begin
Neither is a commitment. Both start a conversation.
What You Might Be Wondering
Two 90-minute virtual sessions per month for four months, plus two private coaching sessions at your convenience. Designed for working leaders with full plates.
Our fall track is designed for student affairs leaders at faith-based institutions, with additional tracks in development. If the fall track isn't your fit, submit the form anyway and you'll hear about future cohorts first.
Many participants use institutional professional development funds. At $1,950, less than most national conferences once travel is included, the approval conversation is usually short. Want help making the case? Mention it in your application.
We offer a self-pay rate for leaders investing in their own growth, along with a multi-seat discount when an institution enrolls more than one participant. Just let us know your situation and we'll find the right fit.
The program serves new VPs, rising deans and AVPs, and directors preparing for executive roles. If you're wrestling with institutional-level questions, this program meets you there. When in doubt, apply and let's talk.
Because the value lives in the conversation. Ten leaders is small enough for honest dialogue and large enough for diverse perspectives. It's the difference between a cohort and an audience.
Small Cohorts. Four Months.
Your Next Level.
The fall cohort is forming now. Applications close August 15. Apply yourself, or put a rising leader's name forward.
Get Started ↑Questions first? Email us anytime at contact@asihighered.com