Leadership and Strategy for Advancing Equity

This Global Community brings together senior leaders, strategists and practitioners from around the world to explore how leadership, governance and institutional strategy can drive meaningful and sustainable progress on equity in higher education.

The community focuses on how equity ambitions are translated into strategic priorities, organisational culture and everyday decision-making. Recognising leadership as a critical lever for systemic change, it provides a space for shared learning across diverse political, cultural and institutional contexts.

Participation offers opportunities to learn from peers, reflect on practice and strengthen strategic approaches that support more equitable and inclusive systems globally.

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Bringing together global perspectives

Achieving equity in higher education requires more than policy commitments or isolated initiatives. It depends on sustained leadership, strategic alignment and organisational cultures that prioritise inclusion and fairness.

By bringing together global perspectives on leadership and strategy, this community:

  • Strengthens understanding of what effective equity-focused leadership looks like in practice
  • Enables learning across different higher education systems and contexts
  • Supports leaders to navigate complexity, resistance and competing priorities
  • Contributes to more coherent and impactful approaches to advancing equity worldwide

What the community focuses on

The community explores key questions including:

  • How leaders articulate and champion equity within institutional missions and strategies
  • The role of governance, accountability and performance frameworks in advancing equity
  • How organisational culture, incentives and structures support or hinder change
  • Leading equity-focused change in complex and resource-constrained environments
  • Aligning data, evidence and strategy to support long-term impact

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