Office of the President Emeritus TRANSFORMATIVE LEADERSHIP WITH OR WITHOUT A BONA FIDE CRISIS: Lessons Learned from Post-Katrina New Orleans

Office of the President Emeritus HURRICANE KATRINA IMPACT ON NEW ORLEANS  1,836 deaths  400,000 jobs lost  275,000 homes destroyed  Ten times as many as any other U.S. natural disaster  Total cost: $160 billion in damages  3 rd deadliest and most expensive hurricane in U.S. history 2015 Heads Network Annual Meeting

Office of the President Emeritus HURRICANE KATRINA IMPACT ON TULANE UNIVERSITY  Flooded 70% of the main campus and the entire health sciences center campus  Resulted in 13,000 students and 8,000 employees dispersed for five months  Became the first major U.S. university in the last century to close its doors for a whole semester  Led to losses in excess of $650M 2015 Heads Network Annual Meeting

Office of the President Emeritus ORLEANS PARISH – FLOODING BY NEIGHBORHOOD 2015 Heads Network Annual Meeting

Office of the President Emeritus OUR PROCESS OF REIMAGINING TULANE  Ensuring financial viability  Preserving and enhancing the quality, distinctiveness and impact of Tulane’s academic programs  Reconnecting Tulane in powerful ways to its communities by focusing on:  Place-Based Creativity  Social Innovation  Civic Engagement  Experiential Learning, and  Collective Impact 2015 Heads Network Annual Meeting

Office of the President Emeritus WORKING TOWARDS A NEW VISION FOR THE FUTURE How Do Lessons Learned from Post-Katrina New Orleans Apply to Your Schools? 2015 Heads Network Annual Meeting

Office of the President Emeritus BASIC PRINCIPLES FOR CREATING POSITIVE CHANGE  Understand reality and the external world  Contextualize the reality to a particular institution  Focus on the possibilities  Have the right leadership 2015 Heads Network Annual Meeting

Office of the President Emeritus LEADERSHIP CHARACTERISTICS LEADERSHIP CHARACTERISTICS  Resilience  Grit  Establishing Expectations  Principled Decision Making  Emotional Intelligence 2015 Heads Network Annual Meeting

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