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title: Speaking & Consulting | Mickey Baines
description: Keynotes, working sessions and strategic planning workshops that help higher education leaders build a vision and a plan for their transformation and lead it with confidence.
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[Mickey Baines](https://www.mickeybaines.com/?hsLang=en)

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Speaking & Consulting

# Helping leaders see *the future* a little more clearly

[Start a conversation →](https://www.mickeybaines.com/speaking-consulting#start-a-conversation)[See the sessions](https://www.mickeybaines.com/speaking-consulting#sessions)

![Mickey Baines presenting on a conference main stage to a large seated audience](https://www.mickeybaines.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Website%20Images%20and%20Graphics%20(Plum%20Site)/mickey-main-stage-wide.webp?width=1400&height=612&name=mickey-main-stage-wide.webp)

From a conference main stage to a cabinet table of eight, I help institutions build a vision and a plan for their transformation, and then help them lead it with confidence.

**Keynotes**Conference main stages and leadership retreats

**Working sessions**Hands-on workshops for teams of 8 to 100

**Professional development days**Institution-hosted days for staff and leaders

**Strategic planning workshops**Cabinets, divisions and AI task forces

Here are a few of the events where I’ve spoken

- INBOUND
- GURU Conference
- Salesforce Education Summit
- NAGAP Annual Conference
- ACHE Annual Conference
- CAEL Annual Conference
- InsightsEDU (formerly CALEM)
- NABCA Annual Conference
- CUPRAP Annual Conference

Signature sessions

## Three ways to bring the work into your room

Each one draws from my book, [*From Here to There*](https://www.mickeybaines.com/book?hsLang=en), and can be shaped to fit your audience and your timeline.

Signature keynoteFrom the book

### From Here to There: Leading a Transformation You Aren’t the Expert In

Keynote · 45–60 minutes · Main stage or leadership retreat

Leaders handed a high-stakes change often treat it as a technology problem or a question of expertise. This keynote makes the case that it is a leadership problem, uses AI adoption as the live example, and shows that the path works even before anyone has a name for it.

The room leaves withA three-step gap analysis they can put to use on Monday

From the book

### The Right Room

Working session · 90–120 minutes · Leadership teams and task forces

For a team that has its mandate and is about to decide who owns what. Together we look at why the right expertise doesn’t always make the right team, and the group maps its own makeup against the work ahead.

From the book

### Why Transformations Stall

Talk or fireside · 30–40 minutes · Breakouts and panels

For leaders whose initiative launched well and then lost its momentum. It names the ownership gaps that quietly stall good work, and why technology built on top of dysfunction only speeds the dysfunction up.

Where I’ve been and where I’m headed

- Nov 3
  
  **Build It Yourself**CSU Chico
- Nov 5
  
  **Setting AI Priorities with CollegeVine**Private event
- Nov 12
  
  **Using AI to Find What Drives Campaigns**GURU 2026
- Dec
  
  **AI Dashboards for Higher Education**Webinar · Date TBD

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Consulting

## When the conversation turns into the work

Some teams want more than a session. I work alongside institutions to turn AI from a list of tools into a plan that serves their goals.

- **Clarify your AI priorities**and align them to your institutional goals and outcomes
- **Build the roadmap**for each priority, with the success metrics that show it’s working
- **Reimagine the org chart with AI**and prepare teams, departments and divisions to embrace and scale it

Start a conversation

## Would you like your team to see the future a little more clearly?

Tell me a little about your team and what you’re working toward. Whether it’s a keynote, a working session or something longer, we’ll figure out the right fit together.

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Mickey Baines

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