Campus Confidential

In this farewell episode, Kelsey and Loren are joined by Corey (and Violet!) to talk about funny moments, memorable episodes, surprising personality traits, what they’ve learned, how they’ve changed and what they’re up to next. 

Also, Corey gives Kelsey and Loren their “Podcast Performance Review” and we do that most Midwest of things – “stand in the foyer” too long to avoid saying goodbye. 

Listeners, we are grateful to you for coming on this ride.  Stay in touch. And stay tuned for new beginnings!

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Campus Confidential is presented by Compass Group and produced by Corey Inscoe with your hosts Kelsey Harmon Finn and Loren Rullman.

For our final episode WITH guests (just Kelsey and Loren in the next episode!), we invited the most-listened-to guests to share perspectives three years after they first joined us.

Drs. Felicia Lee, Kim Harrington and TJ Logan help us learn to accept the challenge of change, show why you should give yourself permission to be a beginner, explain the importance of “social prescriptions” and let you know whether to use inline or quad skates!

Stay for extra credit to hear about Kelsey’s and Loren’s “old-school recreation!”

Campus Confidential is presented by Compass Group and produced by Corey Inscoe with your hosts Kelsey Harmon Finn and Loren Rullman.

Kelsey and Loren welcome three longtime listeners who reflect on their favorite episodes, moments and learnings. Dr. Ben Perlman, Lillian DeLisle Stott and Ryan Greene join us to talk about loading docks, love, optimism, fear and transitions.

We also decide which award categories this podcast could compete in, hear Ben’s weird commencement day story and learn about Lillian’s and Kelsey’s most memorable Uber driver.

This one is a Podcast Party!

Campus Confidential is presented by Compass Group and produced by Corey Inscoe with your hosts Kelsey Harmon Finn and Loren Rullman.

Welcome to the final season! (Go ahead, we’ll wait while you grab a tissue.)

In this episode, Kelsey and Loren describe the new “chapters” in their lives and how they decided to sunset what became five seasons of learning, leadership and laughter.

We don’t like goodbyes (Kelsey is still standing in the foyer!),f so we’ll stretch this thing out – listen in to hear about the final episodes we have coming this season (and what we have planned post-podcast!).

Campus Confidential is presented by Compass Group and produced by Corey Inscoe with your hosts Kelsey Harmon Finn and Loren Rullman.

We wrap up the semester with a person who has seen it all from behind closed doors: Mark Hall, President of Spelman Johnson.

Listen to an "insider" describe how to evaluate a new job, why presentations should be eliminated from search processes, what university executives want from leaders and what we labeled the “three Ts” to leading in an uncertain environment.

Stay tuned for the Extra Credit to hear our football picks and why Midwest has trouble getting used to winning! Happy Holidays, friends.

Campus Confidential is presented by Compass Group and produced by Corey Inscoe with your hosts Kelsey Harmon Finn and Loren Rullman.

Right now, higher ed just feels ... so ... “wobbly!”

Kelli Shomaker, Sr. VP and CFO at Auburn University, explains why it’s important to never turn down an opportunity, to always have the courage to ask for what you need, how to evaluate whether the next career move is right for you and why you might want to pick up golf.

Stay for Extra Credit if you want to hear about your hosts’ (horrible!) golf games and Lil Wayne’s advice!

Campus Confidential is presented by Compass Group and produced by Corey Inscoe with your hosts Kelsey Harmon Finn and Loren Rullman.

What can anarchism teach us about employee engagement, inclusive management and workplace dignity? Turns out, quite a bit!

Ari Weinzweig, Co-Founder of Zingerman’s Community of Businesses and a self-proclaimed “lapsed anarchist,” explains how business publications borrow from this thinking, how to paradoxically replicate uniqueness, why hope is not a strategy, and why “leaning into difficulty” is a fundamental leadership trait. Learn more about Ari and read his writing at  www.zingermanspress.com. And you can find apricots for dignity and democracy gear here.

Listen to the Extra Credit for favorite quotes from Kelsey and Loren. Bon Appetit!

Campus Confidential is presented by Compass Group and produced by Corey Inscoe with your hosts Kelsey Harmon Finn and Loren Rullman.

Welcome to “opposite day” with Dr. Mary Spellman, Executive Director of the Fletcher Jones Foundation! In this fun episode, Mary explains why, in hard times, being a rule follower requires courage, the importance of doing the work and not just quieting the noise, that you can survive the difficult decisions, and why “getting back on the horse” is essential to leadership.

In the spirit of opposite day, we recorded Extra Credit first and included Mary in the chat. Listen in to find out who among us needs to repeatedly hit the alarm clock snooze button!

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Campus Confidential is presented by Compass Group and produced by Corey Inscoe with your hosts Kelsey Harmon Finn and Loren Rullman.

Dr. Victor Boschini, Chancellor Emeritus of Texas Christian University, is the perfect guest to launch Season 5. Our theme this season is “This Moment, This Leader” and acknowledges higher education tumult.

Dr. Boschini describes how two jobs taught him everything he needed to know, how leadership is more like water than cement, why 70% of the information you want is sufficient for decision-making and how to decide when to stay in or change jobs.

Oh, and we talk football, hear Kelsey’s favorite interview question, and learn about the one time Loren was fired from a job!

Campus Confidential is presented by Compass Group and produced by Corey Inscoe with your hosts Kelsey Harmon Finn and Loren Rullman.

The last day of Summer Camp has arrived. In our final conversation, we realize that while we’re wishing for easier days, we are in the role we were called to fulfill. Campus leaders get few easy decisions, looking too far down the road causes us to miss the good right in front of us, and inventorying what we CAN do helps with what we can’t do.

So, take the vacation, enjoy the ride and know you are doing enough.

Campus Confidential is presented by Compass Group and produced by Corey Inscoe with your hosts Kelsey Harmon Finn and Loren Rullman.