Discover: Building Culture from the Ground Up: How Howard University Is Driving Leadership Alignment and Accountability at Scale
- Launching a multiyear, university-wide cultural transformation focused on leadership effectiveness, service excellence, and accountability by co-creating a shared framework with faculty and staff, ensuring the work was community built rather than HR mandated and grounded in lived institutional realities
- Activating Howard’s new leadership and service blueprint, The Bison Way, across the employee lifecycle by embedding it into performance expectations, talent attraction, leadership development, and recognition, giving leaders and teams a consistent language and clear blueprint for how work gets done across the university
- Demonstrating early, measurable momentum with a 2x increase in applications to manager and leadership development programs, including unprecedented faculty participation, forcing cohort caps for the first time and signalling stronger cross campus engagement, reduced silos, and rising confidence in leadership development as a pathway for growth