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The Innovation Forge Podcast

The Number 1 Adaptive Enrollment Management Podcast

Data, marketing, and strategy converge to shape the future of Higher Education through Adaptive Enrollment Management. Whether you’re an enrollment manager, an ed tech professional, or someone excited about shaping the future of higher education, this podcast is your new workshop for forward-thinking ideas. We’ll be running two main types of episodes. First, From the Foundry, where I’ll read unabridged chapters from my book, The Innovation Forge. Think of it as your personal audiobook session—no

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1:57

The Myth of the Funnel The Ember Walk 00 12

The Innovation Forge Podcast ·

2025/11/27

Welcome to The Ember Walk, a daily reflection where curiosity meets motion. Each short episode invites you to walk, think, and craft with intention. Join David Dysart as he explores the lessons of The Forge, including heat, patience, rhythm, and care. All through stories and insights from the world of enrollment and beyond. Step into the quiet work of building something that lasts.We still talk about “the funnel” like it’s real. As if student journeys line up neatly from top to bottom. I get it

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1:48

How to Read Your Own Data With Skepticism - The Ember...

The Innovation Forge Podcast ·

2025/11/26

Welcome to The Ember Walk, a daily reflection where curiosity meets motion. Each short episode invites you to walk, think, and craft with intention. Join David Dysart as he explores the lessons of The Forge, including heat, patience, rhythm, and care. All through stories and insights from the world of enrollment and beyond. Step into the quiet work of building something that lasts.Data tells the truth, but never the whole truth. It’s a mirror that changes shape depending on how you tilt it. Too many

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1:58

The Admit Who Ghosted - The Ember Walk 00 10

The Innovation Forge Podcast ·

2025/11/25

Welcome to The Ember Walk, a daily reflection where curiosity meets motion. Each short episode invites you to walk, think, and craft with intention. Join David Dysart as he explores the lessons of The Forge, including heat, patience, rhythm, and care. All through stories and insights from the world of enrollment and beyond. Step into the quiet work of building something that lasts.Together we’ll take a few minutes to step through one idea that shapes the craft of enrollment.”Every office has that

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30:34

S02 E21 The Forgesmith's Trials

The Innovation Forge Podcast ·

2025/11/24

⚒️ Welcome to The Forgesmith’s Trials! ⚒️ The first two rounds are here. Where ten legendary characters forged from Slate lore battle for configuration glory. This isn’t just a bracket. It’s a tournament of archetypes, chaos, and the occasional plush shark. In this episode, David Dysart, Leonard Aidtab (Ledgerborn of Slatechester), and Silas V. Lookup (Ordained Metricurgist of the Forge Index) bring you sports-style commentary straight from a medieval tournament broadcast booth. 🔥 What’s Inside:

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1:51

Patience as a Form of Skill - The Ember Walk 00 09

The Innovation Forge Podcast ·

2025/11/21

Welcome to The Ember Walk, a daily reflection where curiosity meets motion. Each short episode invites you to walk, think, and craft with intention. Join David Dysart as he explores the lessons of The Forge, including heat, patience, rhythm, and care. All through stories and insights from the world of enrollment and beyond. Step into the quiet work of building something that lasts.No one teaches patience anymore. We’re taught efficiency, responsiveness, agility. These are all speed terms disguised

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1:51

Metrics Without Meaning - The Ember Walk 00 08

The Innovation Forge Podcast ·

2025/11/20

Welcome to The Ember Walk, a daily reflection where curiosity meets motion. Each short episode invites you to walk, think, and craft with intention. Join David Dysart as he explores the lessons of The Forge, including heat, patience, rhythm, and care. All through stories and insights from the world of enrollment and beyond. Step into the quiet work of building something that lasts.We collect numbers like trophies. Inquiry counts, click rates, campus visits, apps in progress. We chase the comfort of

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1:52

Rule Tree Rituals (The Ember Walk 00 07)

The Innovation Forge Podcast ·

2025/11/19

Welcome to The Ember Walk, a daily reflection where curiosity meets motion. Each short episode invites you to walk, think, and craft with intention. Join David Dysart as he explores the lessons of The Forge, including heat, patience, rhythm, and care. All through stories and insights from the world of enrollment and beyond. Step into the quiet work of building something that lasts.I like rule trees. They’re ugly, they’re fragile, and they only make sense to the person who built them. But they’re

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2:04

The Call I Almost Ignored

The Innovation Forge Podcast ·

2025/11/18

Welcome to The Ember Walk, a daily reflection where curiosity meets motion. Each short episode invites you to walk, think, and craft with intention. Join David Dysart as he explores the lessons of The Forge, including heat, patience, rhythm, and care. All through stories and insights from the world of enrollment and beyond. Step into the quiet work of building something that lasts.You’re walking The Ember Walk. The forge is yours now. Go make something worth the heat.It was late in the day when the

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30:26

S02 E20 FAFSA Collapse (The Great Enrollpression 002)

The Innovation Forge Podcast ·

2025/11/17

In every forge, the bellows are sacred. They control the air, shape the fire, and set the rhythm of the work. When they fail, when air chokes, the timing stutters, the entire process falters. Heat doesn’t reach the metal, hammer strikes miss their mark, and the workpiece cools in the wrong form. That is the state of enrollment in the aftermath of the 2023–24 FAFSA cycle. And in the wake of continued disruptions in Financial Aid, Department of Education, and other similar hurricanes. This chapter

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1:55

Curiosity Is a Physical Act

The Innovation Forge Podcast ·

2025/11/15

Welcome to The Ember Walk, a daily reflection where curiosity meets motion. Each short episode invites you to walk, think, and craft with intention. Join David Dysart as he explores the lessons of The Forge, including heat, patience, rhythm, and care. All through stories and insights from the world of enrollment and beyond. Step into the quiet work of building something that lasts.You’re walking The Ember Walk. The forge is yours now. Go make something worth the heat.Curiosity isn’t an idea; it’s a

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1:49

Why We Mistake Speed for Progress

The Innovation Forge Podcast ·

2025/11/14

Welcome to The Ember Walk, a daily reflection where curiosity meets motion. Each short episode invites you to walk, think, and craft with intention. Join David Dysart as he explores the lessons of The Forge, including heat, patience, rhythm, and care. All through stories and insights from the world of enrollment and beyond. Step into the quiet work of building something that lasts.You’re walking The Ember Walk. The forge is yours now. Go make something worth the heat.We’ve mistaken motion for

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1:52

Start With the Query, Not the Dashboard

The Innovation Forge Podcast ·

2025/11/13

Welcome to The Ember Walk, a daily reflection where curiosity meets motion. Each short episode invites you to walk, think, and craft with intention. Join David Dysart as he explores the lessons of The Forge, including heat, patience, rhythm, and care. All through stories and insights from the world of enrollment and beyond. Step into the quiet work of building something that lasts.You’re walking The Ember Walk. The forge is yours now. Go make something worth the heat.We love dashboards. They look

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2:19

The First File

The Innovation Forge Podcast ·

2025/11/13

Welcome to The Ember Walk, a daily reflection where curiosity meets motion. Each short episode invites you to walk, think, and craft with intention. Join David Dysart as he explores the lessons of The Forge, including heat, patience, rhythm, and care. All through stories and insights from the world of enrollment and beyond. Step into the quiet work of building something that lasts.You’re walking The Ember Walk. The forge is yours now. Go make something worth the heat.I still remember the first

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39:21

S02 E19 Form Editor and My New Book

The Innovation Forge Podcast ·

2025/11/10

Coffee and Coals: Form Editor (the Final Consultant Cadre Reveal!) & My New Book: From Poster to Practice Volume 1Grab your favorite coffee and settle in for a fireside chat as we peek behind the curtain of The Innovation Forge. In this episode of Coffee and Coals, I unveil the winner of the very last last Consultant Cadre Naming Competition for the Form Editor —a caterpillar-turned butterfly who braves this bold, italic new world in the only way they know how… underlineBut that is only part of

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46:06

S02 E18 Empowering Journeys with Tristan Deveney

The Innovation Forge Podcast ·

2025/11/03

🎙️ Empowering Journeys: Tristan Deveney on From Admissions to Independent Slate ConsultingIn this episode, David Dysart sits down with Tristan Deveney, founder of Predicate Higher Ed, to explore his unique journey from admissions counselor to independent Slate consultant. Together, they dive into what it means to empower institutions through thoughtful consulting, agile development, and data-informed strategy.🔍 What You’ll Learn:* How Tristan went from building fan sites in high school to leading

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64:42

S02 E17 Building a Persona Insights Engine in Slate...

The Innovation Forge Podcast ·

2025/10/27

Episode 1: The Forge Table: Build Your Persona EngineWelcome to the opening chapter of The Forgeworks Grimoire, a mythic-meets-tactical training series for Slate users and enrollment strategists.In this first one-hour session, we enter The Strategy Season, that quiet moment before applications arrive and travel begins. Guided by The Mentallurgist, we learn to turn scattered information into living personas that shape every decision of the enrollment cycle.What You’ll LearnHow to define student

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29:49

The Great Enrollpression 001 - The Demographic Cliff...

The Innovation Forge Podcast ·

2025/10/20

A forge cannot burn without ore. And yet, across the country, smiths are reaching into their bins and finding less. Less material to heat, shape, and transform. The raw inputs of our craft are diminishing. The long-dreaded demographic cliff has lost its sharp drop; it now appears more as a drawn-out slope, but the erosion is real, and it is accelerating. This chapter confronts the foundational stress fracture of the modern enrollment ecosystem: a shrinking pipeline of traditional-age students,

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30:51

S02 E15 High CSS Voyager and the TIF Song Vault

The Innovation Forge Podcast ·

2025/10/13

Coffee and Coals: High CSS Voyager Reveal & The Music of The Innovation ForgeGrab your favorite coffee and settle in for a fireside chat as we peek behind the curtain of The Innovation Forge. In this episode of Coffee and Coals, I unveil the winner of the Consultant Cadre Naming Competition for the High CSS Voyager—a legendary parrot-turned-portal pioneer who braved the stormy seas of Slate CSS and Liquid syntax.But that is only part of today’s story. I also share how music became a second forge for

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61:55

S02 E14 Culture Craft with Tommy Kroll

The Innovation Forge Podcast ·

2025/10/06

🎙️ Culture Craft | Tommy KrollWhat do Star Wars relays, Bake-Off-style competitions, and Slate CRM have in common?In this episode of The Innovation Forge, we sit down with Tommy Kroll, Senior Business Systems Analyst at Columbia College Chicago, who’s spent nearly 20 years transforming data-heavy work into playful, theatrical, and wildly effective training experiences.Tommy’s approach isn’t just about having fun, it’s about designing culture on purpose. From over-the-top retreats to themed learning

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61:55

S02 E14 Culture Craft with Tommy Kroll

The Innovation Forge Podcast ·

2025/10/06

🎙️ Culture Craft | Tommy KrollWhat do Star Wars relays, Bake-Off-style competitions, and Slate CRM have in common?In this episode of The Innovation Forge, we sit down with Tommy Kroll, Senior Business Systems Analyst at Columbia College Chicago, who’s spent nearly 20 years transforming data-heavy work into playful, theatrical, and wildly effective training experiences.Tommy’s approach isn’t just about having fun, it’s about designing culture on purpose. From over-the-top retreats to themed learning

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