Leadership in Abundance
February 28, 2021
Leadership in Abundance
Leadership Approach Unity Environmental University leaders need access to information and personnel need access to decision-makers. A flatter administrative structure allows day-to-day realities to better influence strategic decisions. One-on-one… Read more »
January 26, 2021
How to Work… In Abundance
Abundant leaders are decisive, creative, collaborative, reflective, consistent, and empathetic. While the style of leadership they bring is often counterintuitive within higher education, it is crucial to the success of… Read more »
November 05, 2018
Leadership in Abundance: Three Unity College Chief Officers present at Women in Leadership Conference at Harvard
Trio focuses on reimagining concepts of leadership in higher education When Dr. Melik Peter Khoury became president of Unity College, he immediately began working on flattening the administrative structure, eliminating dysfunctional hierarchies,… Read more »
April 14, 2017
Leadership in Abundance: Welcome Chief Academic Officer Latty
TO: Employee-News FROM: Dr. Melik Peter Khoury DATE: April 12, 2017 SUBJECT: Leadership in Abundance: Welcome Chief Academic Officer Latty ATTACHMENTS: None Unity College Colleagues, In light of recent news,… Read more »
April 14, 2017
Leadership in Abundance: Dr. Rana Johnson Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer
TO: Employee-News FROM: Dr. Melik Peter Khoury DATE: April 12, 2017 SUBJECT: Leadership in Abundance: Dr. Rana Johnson Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer ATTACHMENTS: None Colleagues, As we complete another… Read more »
March 23, 2017
Leadership in Abundance: Dr. Arnett – Chief Distance Education Officer
TO: Employee-News FROM: Dr. Melik Peter Khoury DATE: March 20, 2017 SUBJECT: Leadership in Abundance: Dr. Arnett – Chief Distance Education Officer ATTACHMENTS: None Colleagues, As you probably know, Dr.… Read more »
February 10, 2016
Leadership in Abundance: Chief Fundraising Officer
TO: Employee-news FROM: Dr. Melik Peter Khoury DATE: February 10, 2016 SUBJECT: Leadership in Abundance: Chief Fundraising Officer — Effective February 14th 2016 ATTACHMENT: Chief Fundraising Officer Job Description Colleagues, Leadership… Read more »
December 21, 2015
What it Means to be a Chief Officer at Unity College
Leadership Approach Unity College leaders need access to information and personnel need access to decision-makers. A flatter administrative structure allows day-to-day realities to better influence strategic decisions. One-on-one relationships between… Read more »
December 09, 2015
New Chief Officers: DeHart and Zavodny
I’m writing today to announce the latest Chief Officer appointments: Chief Sustainability Officer and Chief of Staff. These will likely be the last of the internal appointments to Chief Officer positions. As with all Chief Officer appointments, these roles will take effect in January.
December 09, 2015
Functional Leadership in Abundance – Organizational Structure Process
TO: Employee-news FROM: Dr. Melik Peter Khoury DATE: December 9, 2015 SUBJECT: Functional Leadership in Abundance – Organizational Structure Process ATTACHMENT: Functional Leadership in Abundance (9.2.2015) email Colleagues, I know… Read more »
November 11, 2015
New Chief Officers: Bert, Julie, and Dan
TO: Employee-news FROM: Dr. Melik Peter Khoury DATE: November 11, 2015 SUBJECT: New Chief Officers: Bert, Julie, and Dan ATTACHMENT: Chief Facility Management Officer Job Description; Chief Information Officer Job… Read more »
October 26, 2015
“Not a Right Fit?” – Should a Strong Organizational Culture Prevail at the Expense of long-term Financial Sustainability?
A very close friend of mine just resigned from what seemed “to me” a dream job. After an hour on the phone, parochialism seemed to be at the core of… Read more »
October 19, 2015
Be Innovative! … BUT DON’T… Upset The Apple Cart! … HUH?
I often spend time fielding questions from colleagues about the contradiction between being asked to innovate, yet not rock the boat. Most of us work in the not-for-profit higher education… Read more »
September 04, 2015
Interim CAO to Start Oct 1st
TO: Employee-news FROM: Dr. Melik Peter Khoury DATE: September 4, 2015 SUBJECT: Interim Chief Academic Officer to Start October 1st ATTACHMENT: CAO Job Description Colleagues, Please join me in welcoming… Read more »
September 02, 2015
Leadership in Abundance
I’m writing today to outline the plan and approach to organizational structure at Unity College. If you attended the strategic priorities session during the State of the College professional development day, you heard most of this.
August 02, 2015
Leadership: “To Go” rather than not to go… Is The Literal Definition
The word “leadership” comes from the Old English word lithan (one of the rare English words that has an English origin), which literally means, “to go”; and also means “to… Read more »
October 15, 2014
What Happens When Social Capital Trumps Hierarchy in an Organization?
I ask this question only because I was recently speaking to an ex-colleague from another institution that works at an “exceptionally relational campus” (his words). After some deliberation, the core… Read more »
October 08, 2014
Does Conflict in Change Management influence Innovation?
Ok folks, this is my first attempt at my own post on LinkedIn. So forgive me if I do not get the approach just right 🙂 I have worked in… Read more »
