Candace Boeninger: Holding Power with Purpose

Candace Boeninger, Vice President for Enrollment Management at Ohio University, joins the ALP to share lessons from her journey into senior leadership, reflecting on her experience working with an executive coach and how it helped her navigate the transition to cabinet-level leadership, as well as her evolving understanding of power—and the responsibility that comes with it.

Candace also shares her approach to “being a student of the profession,” including the podcasts and newsletters that keep her sharp.

• 00:00 — Welcome and Candace’s path to Ohio University.
• 06:00 — From construction software to admissions: “other duties as assigned” and career pivots.
• 13:30 — On career progression: “I want to do work that matters, and I don’t want to work for a bozo.”
• 15:30 — Leadership development and discovering executive coaching.
• 18:50 — The Hogan assessment and learning to find direction without waiting for top-down instruction.
• 24:20 — Lessons from coaching: finding her voice, learning to hold power, and using it responsibly.
• 28:50 — The tension between being a people pleaser and wielding power.
• 29:50 — “If you aren’t willing to become a student of the profession, then you’re probably not going to have very much fun.”
• 31:50 — Her routine for digesting information: Future U, NASFAA’s Off The Cuff, NACAC Admission News, NASFAA newsletter.
• 38:20 — Rapid Descent.

The ALP is supported by RHB, a division of SIG. Music arranged by Ryan Anselment