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.
The Innovation Forge | Gilded BuildTonight’s build takes on one of the most underused, misunderstood, and frankly underbuilt features in Slate: Related Records.Most teams treat Related Records like storage.We’re going to treat them like a logic engine.This is a real-time Gilded Build where we’ll construct a system that:Sends tour follow-ups from the actual student guide, tailored to the prospect’s major, housing, and backgroundTriggers counselor outreach after high school visits, using the exact staff relationship tied to the interactionPowers event communications dynamically, changing messaging based on logistics like parking, check-in, event type, and audienceNo duplicated templates.No manual follow-up.No “we’ll just send a generic version.”Instead:Configurable Joins drive the structureRelated Records define the relationship layerMerge logic and conditional content handle the voice and personalizationThis is about building communications that feel human without requiring humans to manually send them.If your templates feel rigid,if your personalization doesn’t scale,or if your team is stuck copying and pasting variations of the same message,this build is going to push past that.🔧 What we’ll build liveRelated Record structures for guides, counselors, and eventsConfigurable Join strategies to connect records cleanlyDynamic content blocks that adapt messaging automaticallyDecision logic that determines who sends what, to whom, and why🎯 Who this is forSlate builders who want to go deeper than standard templatesComms strategists trying to scale personalizationOps teams tired of maintaining duplicate logic everywhereAnyone who knows there’s more power in Slate but hasn’t unlocked it yet🔥 Gilded Build SeriesThis is part of the Gilded Build series, where we don’t just build something that workswe build something that keeps working under pressureMore logicMore flexibilityMore edge cases handled up frontBecause real systems aren’t cleanthey’re forged🕒 Going LiveWe’re building this from scratch, in real time.Mistakes included. Fixes included.⚒️ The Innovation ForgeWhere enrollment strategy meets system designand where builds turn into infrastructure
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