You have been handed a strategy and asked to make it real. This is where you do it.
Core question: I have a strategy. What does it mean for my part of the organization?
Leaders translating a strategy into work their team can act on.
Deans, department chairs, and directors of advising, financial aid, teaching and learning, IT, enrollment operations, and institutional research.
Participants should already have a strategy or a charge, and need to figure out what it means for the area they lead. The work you do here focuses on the change closest to your team, starting with how to bring them along.
What the Academy Delivers
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Six modules that turn a strategy into a practical plan for your area.
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A quick check shows where your area stands and helps you choose the right path.
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Change first. You focus on the change work closest to your team, starting with how to bring them along.
Six modules that turn a strategy into a plan for your area.
Built to continue the strategy: its priorities become your projects, and its rules become your guardrails. Each module produces one part of a plan you can hand to your sponsor and your team.
Where You Stand
A quick check with the AI Adoption Rubric shows where your area stands, and helps you choose your path.
Translate the Strategy
Turn institutional priorities into what they mean for your team, your workflows, and your students.
Scope and Guardrails
Define the first capability or pilot to launch, and the guardrails that keep it safe and compliant.
Change and Champions
Bring your team along: identify early champions, address concerns, and build momentum from within.
Quick Wins and the Pilot
Plan the first wins that prove value, and structure the pilot so results are visible and repeatable.
Budget Request and Rollout
Build a realistic budget request and a rollout your sponsor can approve and your team can run.
Module titles are illustrative and reflect the arc of the implementation plan; final names may be adjusted per cohort.
The same shared model as the AI Strategic Planning and Development Program.
About four months, one module at a time. You complete the reading, videos, and tools on your own schedule, then meet live with a T3 coach and peers from other institutions to apply the work to your area.
A department-ready implementation plan.
A plan you can take to the sponsor who gave you the strategy and to the team you lead. In most cases, it is the plan you already need to produce. The path you choose sets the scope.
First-Phase Implementation Plan
Helps you launch a first capability or pilot in your area, with guardrails, early champions, quick wins, and a realistic budget request.
Integration and Scaling Plan
Connects existing AI work, builds your team's skills, spreads the work beyond one person, and strengthens the budget request.
A strategy built in the AI Strategic Planning and Development Program gives operational leaders enough direction to know what it means for their area. The AI Stewardship and Implementation Program helps them turn that direction into action.
Frequently asked.
Do we need a finished strategy to start?–
You need a strategy or a clear charge to act. The Stewards Academy is built to translate institutional direction into a plan for your area, so some direction from leadership is the starting point.
When does the Stewards Academy open?–
The Stewards Academy is coming soon. Join the waitlist and we'll let you know as soon as enrollment opens, and help you decide whether it is the right next step.
Who should attend?–
Operational leaders: deans, department chairs, and directors of advising, financial aid, teaching and learning, IT, enrollment operations, and institutional research, who need to figure out what a strategy means for the area they lead.
How is this different from the Strategy Institute?–
The Strategy Institute builds the institution-wide strategy. The Stewards Academy takes that strategy and turns it into a practical, department-ready plan, focused on the change work closest to your team.
Can we take it without the Strategy Institute?–
Yes. The programs are designed to connect but not required in order. If you already have a strategy or charge to act on, you can start here.
What do we leave with?–
A department-ready implementation plan: either a First-Phase or an Integration and Scaling plan, depending on the path you choose. In most cases it is the plan you already need to produce.