The Innovation Forge Podcast
The Innovation Forge Podcast
Podcast Description
Data, marketing, and strategy converge to shape the future of Higher Education through Adaptive Enrollment Management. Whether you’re an enrollment manager, an ed tech professional, or someone excited about shaping the future of higher education, this podcast is your new workshop for forward-thinking ideas.
We’ll be running two main types of episodes. First, From the Foundry, where I’ll read unabridged chapters from my book, The Innovation Forge. Think of it as your personal audiobook session—no subscription or separate download needed. In each reading, we’ll explore the principles of scoring systems, predictive modeling, and adaptive enrollment management, that can transform how institutions understand, recruit, and craft their incoming class.
In the second type of episode we’ll have interviews featuring innovative leaders and artisans in data, marketing, admissions, and even specialized platforms like Slate. These 'Visiting Artisans’ are the people actively reshaping traditional practices, and together we’ll hammer out insights you can bring back to your institution or organization. We’ll talk about real-world applications, success stories, and challenges, all while highlighting the practical strategies that spark true innovation.
Join me as we explore Adaptive Enrollment Management in The Innovation Forge Podcast.
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The podcast addresses key topics in higher education such as data analysis, marketing strategies, and enrollment techniques, emphasizing modern practices through examples like predictive modeling and real-world applications of platforms like Slate. Episodes include insightful explorations of scoring systems and feature narratives that highlight innovations in college admissions and student engagement, showcasing practical strategies for transformative change.
Data, marketing, and strategy converge to shape the future of Higher Education through Adaptive Enrollment Management. Whether you’re an enrollment manager, an ed tech professional, or someone excited about shaping the future of higher education, this podcast is your new workshop for forward-thinking ideas.
We’ll be running two main types of episodes. First, From the Foundry, where I’ll read unabridged chapters from my book, The Innovation Forge. Think of it as your personal audiobook session—no subscription or separate download needed. In each reading, we’ll explore the principles of scoring systems, predictive modeling, and adaptive enrollment management, that can transform how institutions understand, recruit, and craft their incoming class.
In the second type of episode we’ll have interviews featuring innovative leaders and artisans in data, marketing, admissions, and even specialized platforms like Slate. These ‘Visiting Artisans’ are the people actively reshaping traditional practices, and together we’ll hammer out insights you can bring back to your institution or organization. We’ll talk about real-world applications, success stories, and challenges, all while highlighting the practical strategies that spark true innovation.
Join me as we explore Adaptive Enrollment Management in The Innovation Forge Podcast.
Fog clings low this morning. Visibility is just enough to navigate but not enough to predict. My steps are cautious. I notice how I lean forward more than I walk, like I’m mentally preparing for something before I’m physically near it. The air smells faintly like moisture on metal. Like a cooling steel after tempering. When the fire has left its imprint, and the work begins to speak back.
You’re joining me on The Ember Walk, where curiosity meets motion. I’m David Dysart. Together we’ll take a few minutes to step through one idea that shapes the craft of enrollment.
When I was younger in this work, I believed my job was to master the process. To understand each system, build each export, predict each yield pattern, solve every form of drift. But the longer I’ve stayed near the heat, the more I’ve learned that the craft itself tends to teach you more than you teach it.
It happens quietly. You build something… and it breaks in a way you didn’t expect. You track a student you’re sure will enroll, and they never do. You create a model that performs perfectly during testing, then fails the moment human emotion enters the equation. The fire teaches you humility. Not through humiliation. But through demonstrating that nothing here is static. Everything responds, everything adapts, and you are being reshaped while you shape it.
A seasoned smith never assumes the metal will react the same way twice. They watch it as if it’s alive. That posture (steady, observant, non-defensive) is what keeps the work honest.
Leaders who treat systems as fixed structures tend to crack under real pressure. Builders who stay curious, even after years at the anvil, tend to endure. The fire always teaches back. That is if you let it.
Today, instead of looking at something familiar as if you know it fully, let yourself see it like you did the first time you encountered it. A dashboard metric, a student question, a model you’ve run for five years. Let your spark speak, and let us know in the comments or DM me. What is it showing you now that it didn’t then?
Let uncertainty sit beside you without urgency. Some lessons arrive only when the flame believes you’re ready to hear them.
And that’s The Ember Walk. The forge is yours now. Go make something worth the heat.
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