Tuesday 10 March 2026, 1 - 2:30pm
Online
Microsoft Teams
Leaders in smaller and specialist institutions often balance broad portfolios, having to work within limited resources and constant operational pressure.
This session reframes strategy as an everyday discipline - a set of habits that help leaders create clarity, make better choices and identify opportunities for improvement even without formal authority. Participants learn practical tools to think more intentionally, mitigate ‘noise’ and connect their local decisions to the wider institutional purpose.
Takeaways:
• What is strategic thinking, when and where you do your best thinking.
• Practical tools to support strategic thinking, improve prioritisation and everyday decision-making.
• Approaches for generating small, testable innovations within constraints.
• Increased confidence in navigating uncertainty and complexity.
About the speaker:
Caroline Dunne is a Leadership Coach and Change Practitioner with over 25 years’ experience working with senior leaders in complex, fast-evolving higher environments. She partners with academic and professional services leaders who are navigating sustained pressure, uncertainty and major change.
Caroline’s work is grounded in lived experience. She has held senior executive and advisory roles across diverse universities in the UK and Australia, including serving as Chief of Staff to a Vice-Chancellor at a large, multi-campus institution. From the executive corridor to faculties, schools and central portfolios, Caroline has led and supported large-scale transformation programmes, cultural renewal and the development of internal change leadership capability.
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