Talks for the people accountable for student success.
Tracy Beasley, Ph.D. delivers keynotes, lectures, and working sessions drawn directly from the books and the systems‑architecture practice.
Four sessions, drawn directly from the books.
Each talk can be delivered as a stand‑alone keynote, sequenced into a multi‑session series, or extended into a working session that leaves the audience with a deliverable they can take into the next cabinet meeting.
Student Attrition is a Systems Failure, Not a Student Failure
President's Cabinet, Faculty Senate, Student-Success Conference
The opening keynote, drawn from The Mentorship Multiplier. Reframes attrition as the predictable output of fragmented institutional systems, and walks the audience through the architecture of inescapable support that closes the gap.
Designing the Crucial Transition: A First-Year Framework
Student-Success Officers, First-Year Programs, Trustees
Drawn from The First-Year Framework. Maps the structural barriers that derail first-year students — summer melt, financial instability, academic disengagement, fragmented support — and presents an integrated, data-informed first-year design.
Lean Six Sigma for Higher Education: Engineering Persistence
Operations Leaders, CIOs, Provosts, Cabinet Workshops
A working session that brings the discipline of Lean Six Sigma to higher-education operations. Participants leave with a friction map of one student-success process and a re-engineering plan ready for sponsor approval.
Mentorship as Institutional System
Faculty Development, Student Affairs, Cabinet Retreats
A workshop format that walks an institution from a portfolio of isolated mentoring activities to a coordinated, measurable mentorship system that touches every student segment.
Three ways to host the work.
Each format is designed to leave the host institution with more than the talk itself: either an integrated framing of the design problem or a working artifact ready for use.
Keynote
An opening or closing keynote drawn from one of the four signature talks. Designed for cabinet retreats, student-success conferences, and trustee gatherings.
Working Session
A facilitated working session with the cabinet or operating team. Participants leave with a friction map, a re-engineering brief, or an integrated first-year design ready for sponsor approval.
Lecture & Q&A
A lecture format suitable for graduate seminars, faculty development series, and senate gatherings. Includes extended dialogue with the audience.
We accept a small number of speaking engagements each academic year.
Inquiries are reviewed personally by Tracy Beasley, Ph.D. Please include the institution, the audience, the proposed format, and the strategic question your audience is currently sitting with. Most engagements are confirmed eight to twelve weeks in advance.
