Ivy Chin leading an executive education session, presenting a process framework at a whiteboard to an engaged audience
Higher Education

Real-world leadership
inside the classroom.

Over thirty years leading at the Fortune 200 level across P&L, technology transformation, board governance, and executive coaching, translated into guest lectures and adjunct courses that give students the frameworks practitioners actually use.

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Guest Speaking

Talks that connect the
classroom to the boardroom

These sessions bring the lived texture of Fortune 200 executive experience into graduate and executive education programs, making abstract leadership frameworks tangible and immediately applicable.

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Guest Lecture · AI & Relevance

Redefining Your Value to Stay Relevant in the Age of AI

AI is transforming what organizations value in leaders, and students entering or advancing in the workforce need a clear, personal framework for navigating that shift. This talk gives them one. Drawing on her experience leading technology transformation in Fortune 200 enterprises and coaching hundreds of hours with senior executives, Ivy makes the abstract concrete and the threatening empowering.

Particularly well-suited for MBA programs, technology leadership courses, and executive education cohorts where the intersection of technology and career strategy is a central concern.

  • Reframe resilience as value creation, not just skills growth in an AI-driven world
  • Understand how AI compresses execution and elevates strategic judgment
  • Shift from operator mindset to strategic value creator
  • Increase influence by turning ideas into business impact with AI as a force multiplier
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Guest Lecture · Self-Leadership & Sustainable Impact

How Leaders Use Self-Leadership to Scale Impact Without Burnout

The gap between what leadership textbooks describe and what actual leadership demands is wide, and the cost of that gap is burnout. This talk reframes self-leadership not as a personal virtue but as the strategic foundation of sustained organizational impact, giving students frameworks that serve them from first management role through C-suite.

Grounded in over thirty years of executive leadership, this session brings emotional intelligence, systems thinking, and organizational dynamics into conversation with the practical realities of leading people and delivering results.

  • Strengthen self-leadership to expand impact without increasing burnout
  • Move from reactive execution to intentional, high-leverage leadership
  • Lead with clarity by elevating decisions, focus, and what you choose to prioritize
  • Create scale through alignment, influence, and systems that extend your leadership beyond yourself
Adjunct Teaching

Courses built on
what practitioners actually do

These adjunct offerings bring the playbooks, frameworks, and hard-won lessons from real enterprise leadership into structured academic courses, translating decades of practice into learning experiences students carry into every role that follows.

Adjunct Course

Digital Transformation Playbook

A practitioner-led course on how organizations plan, lead, and sustain digital transformation, from technology strategy and organizational change to stakeholder alignment and measuring what actually matters.

  • Design enterprise transformation for measurable business value
  • Assess readiness, culture, and digital maturity to guide priorities
  • Align strategy, stakeholders, and operating model for scale
  • Drive adoption and turn transformation into sustained outcomes
Available as a semester course or module series
Adjunct Course

Onboarding Playbook for Technology Leaders

The first 90 to 180 days in a technology leadership role are decisive, and most new leaders navigate them without a map. This course gives students the structured playbook Ivy developed and refined across decades of executive leadership transitions.

  • Rapidly diagnose organizational and technology health across 10 dimensions
  • Identify high-impact levers and prioritize action in complex environments
  • Align stakeholders quickly to build early trust and credibility
  • Deliver early wins while setting up long-term transformation success
Available as a semester course or intensive workshop series
Why It Works

Bridging strategy, execution, and leadership in real enterprise environments

Modern organizations are navigating constant transformation driven by AI, digital acceleration, and shifting business models, yet the gap between strategy and execution persists. Leaders are expected to deliver greater impact in increasing complexity without a clear system for how to consistently do so.

Grounded in real enterprise complexity Built from decades of leading Fortune 200 transformation and advising senior executives across AI, digital, onboarding, and leadership transitions.
Focused on the real constraints to impact Addresses what consistently limits leaders: misaligned execution, weak onboarding, reactive leadership, and lack of clarity in how value is created.
Designed as practical leadership systems Each offering translates lived executive experience into structured frameworks leaders can apply immediately across career resilience, self-leadership, transformation, and onboarding.
What They're Saying

Heard from students and program directors

"Ivy's ability to connect theory with lived experience has helped me think more critically and strategically about my career decisions."
IT Senior Director, Sherwin-Williams
"Ivy's questions consistently pushed me beyond surface-level answers and helped me look deeper into myself."
IT Senior Director, Manufacturing
"We did a knowledge transfer on Innovation that really expanded my thought processes on how to approach Innovation for a company of our size and complexity."
Head of Innovation & Change Management, Fortune 200
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