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In this episode, you’ll hear from Errol Wint. Errol is the founder of Mara Bridge Consulting Solutions and works alongside multiple industries to take a deeper view of education. Previously, he served as the Director of Undergraduate admissions and then Principal Consultant for Enrollment Planning at IUPUI; and before that was at the University of Louisville. He is taking a new view of admissions and higher ed by incorporating design thinking into a design planning process.

1:25 - What didn't work for Errol?
4:27 - The increasing rate of failure and why we need breathing room to grow and strategize
8:02 - Going beyond collecting and consuming data and moving to processes of synthesisto solve problems and innovate
11:02 - The brainstorming process - Analyze, Strategize, Operationalize
14:17 - Bringing along the data reluctant and showing them they're ethnographers
21:18 - Where to start being intentional about being data informed and driven: Make space
24:43 - The difference between a leader and an administrator and how they're being changed by AI and the Creator Era
27:41 - Do we have too much data and too many answers, but not enough questions?
31:53 - Creating in order to solve the unasked problems rather than just answer questions
33:38 - The power and value of bringing ethnography to higher ed design planning
37:32 - Designing for students and their self-authorship "This is who I am, for me, by me."
39:34 - Moving away from generational titles and focus instead of life transitions (and its relation to recruiting)
43:11 - Are we really "post-racial?"
50:16 - Training designers and creators
53:56 - Does modeling still work in an era of constant change?
56:35 - Errol flips the table and asks Will how we can think outside the box and create change within the bounds of regulation: Don't go head on to every problem
1:04:04 - How to gut check just how data driven you really are

Show notes are available on the Enrollment Insights Blog at niche.bz/podcast.

In the Enrollment Insights Podcast, you'll hear about novel solutions to problems, ways to make processes better for students, and the questions that spark internal reflection and end up changing entire processes.

Enrollment Insights Podcast

Design Planning and The Future of Enrollment Innovation With Errol Wint

The Enrollment Insights podcast is a 20-40 minute conversation released twice monthly. Most enrollment management and marketing podcasts interview leaders and we hear about what they’ve done. I’m more interested with novel solutions to problems, or ways to make processes better for students. I’m curious about the questions that spark internal reflection and end up changing entire processes. Conversations will include those in and out of enrollment management and marketing as well as with those outside of education entirely. 

To summarize: I want to talk about the tangents: ideas that  seem outside of current feasibility and spark new ways of looking at data and strategy development.

All episodes and resources are available at niche.bz/podcast

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