Workshops
Welcome to Academic Change Mechanics. We are academics with over 10 years of combined leadership experience bringing about significant change in higher education. We offer seminars and workshops to share our knowledge about how to practically strategize, design and lead change projects.
Past Presentations
- Focus Friday HESA "What does institutional renewal actually look like in practice? AND how do leaders create the conditions for it?" February 2026. HESA, online Link to video (57:43)
- Re:University Conference "How do we redesign programs for today's constraints and tomorrow's students?" January 2026. HESA, Ottawa, ON
- Principal's Leadership Group, Royal Military College "Leading Transformational Change: Agency is the Engine" November 2025. Royal Military College, Kingston, ON
- Faculty of Science, York University "Leading Collaborative Change: an antidote to Whatever It Is I'm Against It" October 2024. York University, Toronto, ON
- Canadian Council Deans of Science "No More Horsefeathers: Countering Resistance to Change in Higher Education" June 2024. Memorial University, St.John's NF
Media
- The Queen's University Journal "New university collaboration model authored by Queen’s administrators sparks online discourse: University administrators are working on a new collaborative governance framework titled ‘Agency in a Box’" by Lilly Meechan 10 February 2026.
- Queen's Faculty of Arts and Science "Leading the Sector in Rejuvenation" 2 February 2026. Reposted to Queen's Gazette 18 February 2026.