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Closing the Change Gap: Agile Change Management for Today’s Higher Education Leaders: Changing Hi...

In this episode of Changing Higher Ed, Dr. Drumm McNaughton speaks with Dr. Christine Janssen, founder and CEO of Edstutia, an award-winning immersive learning platform leveraging virtual reality and AI for adult learning. Dr. Janssen, a former clinical associate professor and director of entrepreneurship at Fordham University, brings an entrepreneurial perspective to higher education’s most pressing challenge: how to manage change in an environment where the rate of external disruption far exceeds most institutions’ capacity to adapt. Dr.s McNaughton and Janssen’s discussion explores why traditional change management models need updating, how AI resistance is counterproductive, and why institutions must choose between leading disruption or being displaced by it. What you’ll gain from listening to this podcast: ✓ Change Management Evolution: Why Kotter’s model needs agile development principles for today’s volatile environment. ✓ Mindset Before Behavior: How cognitive transformation must precede organizational change. ✓ AI Integration: Why faculty resistance to AI harms students more than it protects academic integrity. ✓ Customer Focus: How listening to both students and employers closes the skills gap. ✓ Faculty Development: Why professional development is strategic investment, not discretionary spending. ✓ Future-Ready Students: How to prepare graduates for jobs, companies, and problems that don’t yet exist. ✓ External Coalitions: Why guiding coalitions must extend beyond internal stakeholders. ✓ Disruption Choice: How to be the disruptor rather than the disrupted in higher education’s transformation. ✓ Visionary Leadership: Lessons from Michael Crow at ASU and Michael Baston at Cuyahoga Community College. ✓ Quantum Thinking: Practical cognitive tools for leading through uncertainty and ambiguity. This episode provides valuable insights for presidents, provosts, and board members seeking to accelerate institutional transformation while navigating the simultaneous pressures of demographic decline, political shifts, funding uncertainty, and technological disruption.