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Henry N. Tisdale, PhD

Author of "Beyond the Western Wall: Audacious Transformation of a Small Liberal Arts College"

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Beyond the Western Wall (2025)

In Beyond the Western Wall, Tisdale provides a detailed guide as to how to apply the transformational visioning process as a key institutional change strategy. Hence, it is a true guide to understanding visionary leadership, and how to bring about transformational change. Chapter by chapter, he digs deeply into the launching of a presidency, academic excellence by design, Student Success, Innovations, Fundraising, and Succession Planning. Throughout the book, the author emphasizes the importance of....

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An Excerpt from"Beyond the Western Wall"

" At this point and time in Claflin’s history, I was convinced that the university needed a well-qualified leader who understood transformational leadership. A transformational leader must first understand and help others to understand what transformation is and what transformation is not. Transformation is a special type of change. Some types of changes such as incremental change can be easily reversed. Some changes just make things a little better or more efficient by fixing the past. In contrast, transformational change creates the future and a vision of something new and is organization wide. It is about bringing about major changes that..

Book Reviews & Endorsements

“Beyond the Western Wall is a must-read and fascinating book that offers a master class in how a skilled, focused, visionary and determined president led the transformation of a small liberal arts HBCU to make it one of the top performing colleges in America. Henry Tisdale demonstrates how he, with his supportive life partner, his late wife Alice Carson Tisdale, by his side, was on a mission to change the trajectory of what was then Claflin College —making it one of the most prestigious universities in the nation today.

Given the challenges many universities have of attracting the right presidential fit to an institution, this book is a case study for governing boards, faculty, alumni, donors, and supporters of how to get it right.

The book is exceedingly well-written and is replete with keen insights on what it takes to be an effective university president while encountering and managing numerous challenges along the way. I recommend it unequivocally!”

David Kwabena Wilson,
President, Morgan State University