Almost twenty years later, I created a mini-library of books that I asked my Directors and Assistant VP’s to leverage. Being an office of innovation, professional development, content creation, and the University library, the books needed to be deep and wide. But in the end, I would say it worked. How do I know? When Saint Leo took a cultural inventory (a survey taken every other year for two decades), my organization was the sole group at Saint Leo with a positive trajectory. My people were connected in purpose and positive factors for the school (customer service focused, student-centric, problem etc). I tried to push them to rally around concepts and ideas that are key to innovation, education, and communication, but are often absent from university contexts.
