This webinar is hosted by AHEP’s Change Special Interest Group (SIG).
About this Session
The purpose of this session is to give members of the AHEP Change Special Interest Group a strategic, senior leader view of what is coming next for organisational change in UK higher education, so that practitioners can better understand the environment they are working in and align their practice to emerging needs.
This session is a valuable opportunity for AHEP members to hear directly from a senior leader with a comprehensive view of how UK higher education is shifting. As Chief Transformation & Resources Officer at DMU, Tracey Jessup operates across digital, people, finance, estates, operations, and organisational strategy. Her perspective brings clarity to the complex forces shaping the sector and what they mean for professional services.
For AHEP members, whose roles often involve supporting, enabling, or delivering institutional change, this context is especially valuable. The session will help colleagues understand the capabilities institutions increasingly need, how professional services roles are developing, and where opportunities for growth and leadership are emerging.
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Interested in becoming a member of this SIG? Find out more about this SIG and join now by completing the short form linked.
Learning Outcomes
By the end of this session, you will be able to:
- Provide a senior level perspective on the direction of HE transformation
- Translate sector wide challenges into implications for change professionals
- Create space for discussion about the future of change in HE
We look forward to welcoming you to this event.
Details in brief
Venue: Online
Date: Thursday, 26 March
Duration: 12:00-12:45
Price: Free to AHEP Change SIG Members
If you have any questions, please contact events@ahep.ac.uk
This event has been organised and will be hosted by the Change Special Interest Group (SIG). Interested in becoming a member of this SIG? Find out more about this SIG and join now by completing the short form linked.
Speaker
Tracy Jessup
Chief Transformation and Resources Officer
De Montfort University
About Tracy
Tracey leads, develops and manages comprehensive changes to how the university operates its business, including delivery of a critical multi-year transformation journey to align technology and campus, people and ways of working. Putting modern digital capability at the heart of how DMU develops a unique student and staff experience will ensure that DMU deliver their Empowering University Strategy – transforming their business and creating a highly competitive model in higher education through the digitalisation of student facing processes and driving future technologies for education and research.
Prior to joining DMU Tracey had a twenty plus year career in central Government working in policy and digital roles, most recently as Chief Digital and Information Officer of the UK Parliament. Tracey was responsible for the strategic direction of Parliament’s digital offering, transforming ways in which citizens connected with Parliament including building a new website for Parliament, the delivery and management of parliamentary digital platforms, and providing technology services to Members and staff in Westminster and throughout the UK.
Tracey has featured in the CIO 100 from 2021 to 2024 and in 2024 also won the CIO 100 award for outstanding contribution to the public sector. Tracey is also the winner of the Women in IT Outstanding Contribution Award 2021 awarded for her work leading delivery of the virtual and hybrid Parliament during the Covid-19 pandemic.