The State of Higher Education with Brandon Busteed: Lead to Succeed 72

There are lots of discussions going on right now about higher education. Different people have different ideas and thoughts on the topic. In this episode, my guest, Brandon Busteed, and I dig deeper into this conversation.

Brandon is the president and Global head of Learn-work Innovation at Kaplan. Before Kaplan, Brandon spent over six years at Gallup, first as Executive Director of Education and Workforce Development and later as Senior Partner and Global Head of Public Sector. His career spans a wide range of important work in education as an educational entrepreneur, speaker, writer, and university trustee. Busteed is also the founder and former CEO of Outside the Classroom Inc.

Listen as Brandon shares his knowledge and wisdom.

Key talking Points of the Episode:

[02:29] What’s working in higher education right now?

[05:12] Advice to college people who are purposeful of their education

[08:56] Correlation between students’ work readiness and their next phase

[13:57] The disconnect between education and the life that follows

[18:08] Qualities of people that take their careers/entrepreneurship forward

[21:41] How to develop yourself as a student

[26:45] Qualities of a great mentor

[30:41] How to do society and institutions can attract and retain the very best

[31:41] How Brandon choose to be in education

[33:24] How to value the mentoring value of education

[35:37] Rapid fire questions

Standout Quotes from the Episode:

“It’s hard to be work ready without having ever had any kind of work experience.”
“To be successful in life and work, you need much more than just what we might call academic or technical know-how.”
“Where you have the opportunity to pick the professor and not the course, do it every time.”
“The biggest mistake that most of us make in evaluating a new job is we don’t think about who our managers going to be.”
“A great professor, a great faculty mentor, has very similar characteristics to a great manager. These are people who get to know you get to know your strengths. They build relationships with you and help put you on a trajectory that’s impossible to calculate in terms of its importance.”
“Don’t burn bridges. It always comes back to haunt you when you do.”

Connect with Brandon:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/busteed

Forbes: https://www.forbes.com/sites/brandonbusteed/?sh=4d2dc18254a1

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