Our Work with Colleges and Universities
Services Overview
At New Table Consulting, we partner with colleges, universities, and academic organizations to strengthen leadership, collaboration, and institutional alignment.
We bring deep experience in complex, people-centered organizations — combining coaching, facilitation, and strategic guidance to help academic leaders and teams build clarity, trust, and shared purpose. Whether you’re facing leadership challenges, departmental dysfunction, or the need to align around a new strategic direction, we work alongside you to create measurable, lasting improvement.
Coaching for Challenging, Ineffecive or Toxic Leaders
Transforming difficult dynamics into credible, trusted leadership
In mission-driven organizations, leadership behaviors have an outsized impact on culture, morale, and long-term effectiveness. Even deeply committed leaders can fall into patterns that strain relationships and undermine trust. The pressures of fundraising, program delivery, and stakeholder expectations can bring out reactive or controlling behaviors — especially among senior staff or founders.
At New Table Consulting, we specialize in coaching leaders whose behavior has become disruptive, inefffective, or toxic — individuals whose passion for the mission may outpace their ability to lead constructively. Drawing on evidence-based frameworks, including the Boss Whispering model, we help leaders shift from harmful dynamics toward credibility, composure, and authentic influence.
Our Leadership Renewal Coaching process helps leaders reset, regain trust, and re-engage their teams. We help participants:
- Build self-awareness around leadership style, communication, and the impact of their behavior.
- Recognize how abrasive or intimidating conduct erodes staff well-being, trust, and organizational credibility.
- Shift from reactive or fear-based leadership toward psychologically safe, high-accountability leadership grounded in respect and transparency.
- Strengthen skills for giving feedback, navigating conflict, and leading through change with empathy and clarity.
- Create actionable behavior plans with measurable goals and structured follow-up to sustain progress.
This confidential process blends candor and compassion — helping leaders realign with their values, rebuild relationships, and model the culture they want for their teams.
When nonprofits address toxic leadership directly and thoughtfully, they protect their people, advance their mission, and build the healthy workplaces their communities deserve.
Building High-Functioning Teams & Workplace Mediation
Turning teams in conflict into collaborative, high-performing units
Successful organizations depend on teams that communicate clearly, collaborate effectively, and stay aligned under pressure. Yet even strong teams can falter — miscommunication, personality clashes, or unclear roles can erode trust and productivity.
Our Team Development and Mediation Services help businesses repair fractures, rebuild trust, and improve collaboration across all levels of the organization.
We work with teams to:
- Diagnose strengths and challenges in communication, trust, and decision-making.
- Clarify purpose, roles, and shared expectations that promote accountability and alignment.
- Facilitate difficult conversations and structured mediation to resolve interpersonal or departmental conflict.
- Build practices for feedback, performance dialogue, and constructive disagreement.
- Develop systems that reinforce collaboration, continuous learning, and a healthy team climate.
When conflict escalates beyond internal resolution, we offer confidential, neutral mediation — helping employees, leaders, or departments navigate disputes productively and restore working relationships.
Whether your team is facing breakdowns in trust, cultural tension, or growing pains from rapid change, we help you move from dysfunction to cohesion — creating a foundation for engagement.
Strategic Retreat Facilitation
Creating clarity, connection, and forward momentum
Academic leaders rarely have time to step back and think together about where their institution is headed — and how to get there.
Our Strategic Retreat Facilitation helps leadership teams, deans, department chairs, and cross-campus groups make that time count.
We design and lead retreats that:
- Are tailored to your context and goals — from strategic planning to culture renewal or organizational change.
- Use structured, participatory frameworks to ensure all voices are heard and decisions lead to action.
- Clarify vision, priorities, and next steps, with concrete ownership and follow-through.
- Reconnect leaders to their shared purpose and re-energize collaboration across the institution.
After the retreat, we support your team in maintaining momentum, accountability, and alignment. The result is a leadership community that’s focused, unified, and ready to move from conversation to coordinated action.
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Partnering for Impact
Every engagement with New Table Consulting is a true partnership. We listen deeply, tailor our approach to your institutional culture, and work with you to achieve meaningful, sustainable change — in leadership, teamwork, and strategic direction.
