Best SPH Consulting Podcasts (2025)

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SPH Consulting: Mergers and Acquisitions in Higher Education

Gary Stocker, Ricardo Azziz

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Higher education is in the midst of great change and transformation, and SPH Consulting Group is here to guide you. Not unexpectedly, major future-oriented institutional restructuring, including mergers, acquisitions, consolidations, corporate conversions, and closures, are increasingly common. An environment that is characterized not only by significant challenges, but also by even greater opportunities. Important and complex institutional transformations that require careful consideration ...

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Leading Existential Change in Higher Ed, Mergers, Closures and other Major Restructuring Ep 3 of 7 17:52

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Here are the questions, Dr. Azziz addressed during this podcast episode. 1. The case you used for this competency ( Sensing and driving the pace of change) was the merger of Kendall College and Louis National University. Share with our listeners the need for speed in merger in higher education. 2. Talk about incrementalism and how it is not necessa…

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SPH Consulting: Mergers and Acquisitions in Higher Education with Karla Leeper Oct 2025 19:35

6d ago19:35

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Karla Leeper is the Vice Chancellor for Strategic Communication and Marketing and Chief of Staff to the Chancellor at The University of Tennessee Health Science Center She has provided communications guidance and other consulting support on college mergers throughout the United States Here are the questions Karla addressed during the podcast. What …

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Leading Existential Change in Higher Education: Mergers, Closures . . . .Ep 2 of 7 27:36

9d ago27:36

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Here are the questions Dr. Ricardo Azziz addressed during this podcast episode. 1. You list 7 critical competencies for BSC. Where did they come from? 2. We talked about how you used case studies throughout the book in our first podcast. Let’s talk about the one you use here: Connecticut State Colleges and Universities. I remember reading a lot abo…

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Leading Existential Change in Higher Ed, Mergers, Closures and other Major Restructuring Ep 1 of 7 28:08

20d ago28:08

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Here are the questions asked in this first review of Dr. Azziz' book: Leading Existential Change in Higher Ed, Mergers, Closures and other Major Restructuring 1. Early in the book you discuss how the type of leadership that brought us here generally can’t get us there. That is going to be a challenge for many college leaders. What is your thought p…

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Ricardo Azziz SPH Economics of HE 081325 24:06

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By Gary Stocker, Ricardo Azziz