Services & Tools

The volume and complexity of existential challenges facing colleges and universities today require proactive leadership. Our consulting services take a holistic, outcome-driven approach, supported by proprietary tools uniquely designed to help leaders of colleges and universities navigate these challenges and achieve institutional success.

Strategic Governance & Leadership

Increase board effectiveness through comprehensive assessments, performance metrics, executive coaching, and tailored leadership development plans.

  • Board development, senior team and board coaching and succession planning

  • Mission-focused organizational assessments, strategic realignments and sustainability plans

  • Data analytics and insights, performance metrics and

  • Academic Re-Imagining Portfolio Review, which helps institutions to re-structure, re-allocate and re-engineer their academic offerings

Financial Sustainability

Get a holistic view of institutional health to optimize resource allocation with data-informed decisions aligned with your institution’s strategic goals and ensure long-term viability.

  • Campus Compass™ is our proprietary tool and analytical framework used to establish an objective assessment of your institution’s current financial and operational state (along with peer comparisons) and gain a clearer understanding of the margins, markets, and resources required for the sustained delivery of its mission. Click here to learn more. 

  • Advisory services to turn the “what” of data into the “so what” of a financial strategy

  • Restructuring assistance using our Modified Cash/SRAM tool to enhance operational efficiency and sustainability

Innovation Driven Partnerships and M&A

Explore new opportunities to drive growth and enhance educational outcomes through strategic partnerships.

  • Fostering and implementing innovations through strategic partnerships, mergers, and acquisitions with the P-20 Tool

  • Identifying potential collaborators

  • Developing partnership frameworks

House Settlement Impact Assessment & Planning

Benchmark athletics programs against targeted peer institutions to assess their current impact on institutional resources and gain bespoke strategies to optimize intercollegiate athletics as a driver of enrollment and net tuition.

  • Athletic Value Study tool uses public and institutional data to benchmark current and potential athletics peers and assesses the impact of athletics programs on institutional resources

  • Focused assessment of current financial aid optimization and net cost/revenue of athletics by program with bespoke recommendations to maximize intercollegiate athletics as both an enrollment and net tuition driver

Although Husch Blackwell Consulting is affiliated with the law firm of Husch Blackwell LLP, Husch Blackwell Consulting is not a law firm and does not provide legal services.

Although Husch Blackwell Consulting is affiliated with the law firm of Husch Blackwell LLP, Husch Blackwell Consulting is not a law firm and does not provide legal services.

Although Husch Blackwell Consulting is affiliated with the law firm of Husch Blackwell LLP, Husch Blackwell Consulting is not a law firm and does not provide legal services.