Deans Counsel

Deans Counsel


58: Transitions Roundtable - Ken Kring hosts a Panel discussion with Dave Ikenberry, Jim Ellis and special guest Allison Davis-Blake

February 28, 2025

On this special episode of Deans Counsel, we flip the script a bit by putting two of our hosts -- former business school deans Jim Ellis (USC) and Dave Ikenberry (Colorado), along with returning guest Allison Davis-Blake (Minnesota) -- in the guest chair to speak specifically to an important area of deanship: transitions.


In this detailed and wide-ranging discussion, these three Deans Emeriti speak with Deans Counsel host Ken Kring -- Co-Managing Director of Global Education Practice and Senior Client Partner at Korn/Ferry International -- about lessons learned and shared from their own experiences with entering, thriving in and departing their various roles in academia, touching on topics including:


• Guiding principles of deanship

• The transition from traditional academic to administrator

• Understanding the rapidly changing culture of academia today

• The need to plan for what comes after one's deanship


Learn more about:

Allison Davis-Blake

Ken Kring

Jim Ellis

Dave Ikenberry


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Thanks for listening.


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Produced by Joel Davis at Analog Digital Arts


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DEANS COUNSEL: A podcast for deans and academic leadership.


James Ellis | Moderator | Dean of the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California (2007-2019)


David Ikenberry | Moderator | Dean of the Leeds School of Business at the University of Colorado-Boulder (2011-2016)


Ken Kring | Moderator | Co-Managing Director, Global Education Practice and Senior Client Partner at Korn Ferry


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