Evidence-Based Insights for Campus Leaders

National Research Study

2025–2026 State of Campus Culture Report

Dr. Joe Hill — Higher Performance Group

Findings from a national study of 1,050 educational leadership teams in K–12 and higher education. Analyzes the current state of campus leadership culture, showing a decline in average team capacity and identifying how leadership culture directly impacts institutional outcomes such as enrollment, retention, and strategic execution. Outlines key factors affecting performance and highlights three organizational trajectories: improving, plateauing, and declining teams.

White Paper

The Team Intelligence Gap

Dr. Joe Hill — Higher Performance Group

Addresses why high-performing leadership teams underperform—not from lack of talent, but from fragmented intelligence. Introduces the TQ Model (IQ × EQ × PQ), illustrating how cognitive, emotional, and positional intelligence must integrate to achieve team effectiveness. Includes seven core competencies, five lead measures, and a four-stage development pathway with diagnostic tools to advance institutional performance and achieve sustainable excellence.

Executive Brief

Breaking the Middle Management Crisis

Higher Performance Group

Reveals how neglecting middle managers—deans, principals, and directors—creates hidden costs and weakens educational performance. Most systems train executives but ignore the “invisible middle,” where strategy fails. Introduces Team Intelligence (TQ)—combining IQ, EQ, and PQ—to rebuild collective performance. Schools adopting TQ achieved measurable gains in retention, engagement, and student outcomes.

Framework

{TQ} | Team Intelligence

Dr. Joe Hill — Higher Performance Group

An assessment that helps campus leadership teams measure and develop their collective intelligence. Built at the intersection of Perceptual (PQ), Intellectual (IQ), and Emotional Intelligence (EQ), TQ reveals how well teams leverage diverse thinking styles, communicate, and execute together. Provides a shared language that improves team dynamics, decision-making, and institutional outcomes.