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What working with Confluence can look like

• Building a scalable microcredential and learner-record ecosystem. Helping a community college connect employer needs, credential design, learning and employment record infrastructure, employment pathways, outcome measurement, and the internal capacity to manage and scale the work.
• Developing an AI strategy through a job-embedded program. Supporting a university as it partners with a local employer to align academic goals, workforce relevance, governance, student support, and learning from implementation.
• Improving and scaling student mentoring. Designing and facilitating a community of practice where mentors and program leaders learn from experience, strengthen their practice, and inform program decisions.
• Researching AI investment and adoption. Conducting grant-funded research into how higher education institutions invest in, govern, and adopt AI—and what those choices mean for their people, practices, infrastructure, and capacity.
• Establishing more inclusive technology-procurement governance. Helping a community college system broaden participation in technology decisions, strengthen understanding and support for selected tools, and reduce duplicative spending.
• Redesigning university leadership and support. Helping an institution rethink its leadership team, staffing model, governance, and support structures by clarifying roles, decision rights, relationships, and dependencies.

Core capabilities

Each engagement combines the capabilities needed to help your organization understand, decide, change, or build.

We apply these capabilities to institutional strategy and effectiveness, educational model and curriculum change, digital transformation, student success, and collaboration across institutions and sectors.

Help shape the Confluence Capacity Assessment

Confluence Network is developing a practical assessment to help organizations understand their capacity to navigate complex change.

The assessment is designed to surface a profile that can help an organization identify recurring strengths to build from, areas where capacity may be uneven or constrained, and differences in how people across the organization experience the work.

We are inviting a small number of higher education institutions, systems, and organizational units to participate as early pilot partners. Pilot partners would:

• Invite people from different parts of the organization to complete the assessment.
• Receive a facilitated profile of organizational strengths, possible pressure points, and differences in perspective.
• Use the findings to identify questions, opportunities, and possible areas for development.
• Help us learn where the assessment is clear and useful—and where its questions, process, or reporting need improvement.

At this stage, the Confluence Capacity Assessment is a developmental tool. It is not yet a validated measure, institutional benchmark, certification, audit, or rating. Pilot results are intended to support organizational learning and improve the assessment—not to rank or compare institutions.

Each pilot will be designed around a clearly defined organization or unit, with agreed expectations for confidentiality, data use, and participation. The organization retains ownership of its interpretation, decisions, and next steps.

If your institution is navigating significant change and would value a structured view of the capacities supporting that work, we would welcome a conversation.

Designed with you

Confluence Network brings structure, facilitation, and an outside perspective. Your organization brings the knowledge, context, authority, and relationships needed to make the work real.

We shape the engagement around what you are trying to understand, decide, change, or build, and adapt as new understanding emerges. Your organization retains responsibility for interpreting findings, making decisions, taking action, and owning the work and its outcomes.