Webinar
Includes a Live Web Event on Tuesday, October 14, 2025
10a – 11a PT / 1p – 2p ET
Navigate uncertainty, build stronger teams, and thrive in resource-constrained environments
Academic libraries are facing unprecedented challenges. This isn’t just another leadership session; it’s practical guidance for adaptive strategies from library leaders.
What You’ll Gain
- Practical frameworks for adaptive leadership
- Holistic approach to personal and professional resilience
- Paths for moving beyond either/or decision-making
- Real-world applications from experienced library leaders
Build Your Toolkit
Powerful frameworks and practical tools to help academic library professionals lead with clarity, compassion, and confidence.
Share your current challenges, connect with peers facing similar situations, and discover patterns and insights from the collective wisdom of academic library leaders.
Beyond the Webinar
Learn about our upcoming group coaching cohort through peer learning and professional coaching.
Ready to Transform Your Leadership?
Register today to join us for this interactive session on October 14, 2025.
About the Speakers
Your Expert Guides
Hilary Craiglow leads library consulting at Attain Partners, leading our team of library strategists to strengthen library systems. With extensive experience leading academic and research libraries, Hilary has a deep understanding of college and university systems. She is a strategic and visionary administrator, melding rich library traditions with innovative forward-thinking services. As a data and mission-driven leader, she employs proven evaluation and assessment methods and creates organizational transformation through empathy and partnership. Hilary helps library leaders achieve their mission faster, more efficiently, and with greater impact.
Sue Erickson is a leadership coach, facilitator, and former library director with deep expertise in organizational well-being, team development, and change management. With experience in higher education, federal government, non-profit, and commercial sectors, she helps leaders and organizations grow, learn, and navigate transitions with confidence. Her work emphasizes aligning strategic planning with core values and drawing on individual and team strengths to create collaborative, high-performing cultures where people thrive.
Erickson’s expertise includes coaching leaders on complex dynamics, building resilience and emotional intelligence, and guiding organizations through change in ways that minimize disruption and strengthen trust. As an experienced facilitator, she is skilled in leading group discussions, resolving conflict, and encouraging diverse perspectives to foster innovation. She has designed and delivered leadership development programs that support growth at both individual and organizational levels. Her coaching practice is underpinned by certifications including the Polarity Approach for Continuity and Transformation (PACT)™, The Leadership Circle Profile, GENOS Emotional Intelligence, ThetaCORE, and the International Coaching Federation’s Professional Certified Coach credential. She also holds a Certificate in Leadership Coaching for Organizational Wellbeing from George Mason University.
Kristin D. Vogel is a leadership coach, consultant, and strategist specializing in adaptive and regenerative leadership, organizational culture, and systems thinking. With decades of experience in higher education, libraries, government, and nonprofits, she understands the realities leaders face inside complex institutions. Drawing on training from Stanford University’s GSB LEAD Certificate in Corporate Innovation, Polarity Thinking mastery (PACT)™, and mindfulness and meditation, she helps leaders navigate change, surface hidden dynamics, and use power with integrity to foster clarity, renewal, and collaboration. Her work emphasizes leveraging technology with human creativity to support thriving, future-ready organizations.
Vogel’s expertise includes integrating tested models, such as the Adaptive Cycle, to guide renewal in complexity. She applies her training as a Lean Continuous Improvement Practitioner to align practices with impact and value, and brings expertise as an IDI Qualified Administrator to help teams grow cultural agility and strengthen connection across differences. Certified as a Transformational Coach Professional through the Institute for Coaching Innovation (ICF-accredited), she develops leaders’ capacity for empathy, authenticity, and lasting transformation. Vogel’s career includes recognition as a Fulbright Scholar in Bahrain and a FUSE Fellow in local government innovation. She is also the creator of The Joy Pathway, a framework for equanimity, flourishing, creativity, and sustainable growth.
