(via Russell Michalak, Goldey-Beacom College)
Registration is open for the ACRL Leadership Discussion Group webinar “From Ideas to Intentionality: How Library Leaders Decide What Not to Do”.It will take place on Monday, February 23, at 2:00 PM CDT.
Academic library leaders are rarely short on ideas. What they often lack is the time, attention, and organizational capacity to pursue them all. In an environment of constant pressure to innovate, the central leadership challenge is not generating new initiatives, but deciding which ideas to delay, reshape, or intentionally let go.
ACRL’s Leadership Discussion Group (LDG) invites you to a timely webinar focused on strategic restraint and intentional decision-making. This session introduces practical frameworks that help leaders prioritize effectively without dampening creativity.
Participants will explore:
- How to distinguish between different types of ideas
- The forms of innovation various initiatives imply
- The effort and readiness required to move ideas forward
- How to adopt a portfolio mindset for sustainable innovation
- Shared language and prompts for prioritization conversations
- Strategies to protect staff capacity while maintaining momentum
Rather than treating innovation as a collection of isolated projects, this webinar emphasizes innovation as an ongoing, intentional process aligned with organizational clarity and purpose.
Speaker
Brian Mathews, University Librarian and Dean of the Library at Elon University, has held leadership roles at Carnegie Mellon University, Virginia Tech, and UC Santa Barbara. He writes and speaks widely about strategy, innovation processes, organizational design, and systems thinking, with a growing focus on agency and self-efficacy in periods of change.
Please register here.