Higher Education Effectiveness:  Corporate Techniques in Educational Planning.  Center for the Advancement of Postsecondary Education Lecture Series, University of Wisconsin-Madison, April, 2002.

Excellence in Practice: Eight Challenges Facing Higher Education, Keynote Address, President’s Retreat on Leadership Engagement, Cornell University, Feb, 2004.

Core Values and Organizational Transformation: Pursuing: A New Vision of Excellence. Senior Staff Conference, University of Ulster, Belfast, Northern Ireland, May, 2004.

Academic Leadership and Communication: No Greater Opportunity; No Greater Challenge. University of Ulster, Conference on Academic Leadership, Coleraine, Northern Ireland, October, 2004

Organizational Self-Assessment: A Robust Tool for Addressing Challenges Facing Higher Education. Annual Conference of the Canadian Association of University Business Officers Association, June, 2005.

The Challenge of Excellence: Reframing the Mission of Higher Education. Keynote address. First International Conference on Integrative Excellence in Higher Education, Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, England. June, 2005.

Integrating the Malcolm Baldrige Framework with the Standards and Language of Accreditation: Excellence in Higher Education. Annual Conference of the National Association of College and University Business Officers, Baltimore, MD, July, 2005

Building Consensus through Guided Case Study Discussions: A Method for Developing Strategic Leadership Competencies. Annual Conference of the National Association of College and University Business Officers, Tampa, July 2011.

Strategies for Driving Change: Summary of the NACUBO-Lumina EHE Challenge 2010 Project (with S. Jurow and others), Annual Conference of the National Association of College and University Business Officers, Tampa, July 2011.

Keynote Address: Excellence in Higher Education-A Case Study in Collaboration from Beginning to End. Annual Conference of the National Consortium for Continuous Improvement in Higher Education, Alexandria, VA, July 2012.