Can you take a social call?

Every other week, we have a social call with our guest to get to know the person behind the title. We roll the dice to ask three questions, get to know them better, and then play a personalized game.

Clarity Calling is a podcast of Clarity EM.

1:02 - 3 things you should know about Robert

1:51 - Robert's Harley days

3:22 - The affinity for Rumi

4:16 - How Robert got to Minnesota from New York

5:51 - 3 Questions for Robert

9:07 - Robert's game: Who me? Rumi!

17:56 - Robert's next adventures

Are you ready for a strategy call?

Robert Gould, VP of Strategic Enrollment Management at Augsburg University, joined Will for a Strategy Call to discuss how Augsburg is reimagining admissions by focusing on belonging. Augsburg Applies to You is a revolutionary take on direct admissions, and they take it a step further by focusing on belonging and wellness among the staff. These are ideas he wants you to steal and use.

Clarity Calling is a podcast of Clarity EM.

1:17 - Meet Robert Gould

3:22 - Reimagining admissions in 3 parts: Direct admissions, success coaching, and academic belonging

9:38 - Building trust and removing barriers

11:48 - The data-informed and student-centered mindset that drives the belonging framework

16:59 - Planning for future impacts to student success

18:43 - How belonging is impacting staff retention and engagement

21:12 - How students, parents, and counselors have reacted to Augsburg Applies to You

26:30 - How the new process has impacted yield and orientation

30:09 - Robert's calling

Can you take a social call?

Every other week, we have a social call with our guest to get to know the person behind the title. We roll the dice to ask three questions, get to know them better, and then play a personalized game.

Clarity Calling is a podcast of Clarity EM.

0:54 - 3 things you should know about Angela

2:26 - Traveling for good food

8:41 - 3 Questions for Angela

17:57 - Angela's Game: The Real Questions About Bravo!

Angela Brown, Head of Marketing at Halda, joined Will for a Strategy Call to discuss AI in a more measured and realistic way. What are small ways you can get started using it on campus? How do you maintain your brand and not water it down with poor prompting? Angela drops a lot of great wisdom in this episode, so take notes!

Clarity Calling is a podcast of Clarity EM.

1:25 - Meet Angela Brown

5:15 - Small steps you can take to let AI take on some repetitive education marketing tasks

9:52 - The marketing problem with AI: if it can do "anything," where can we start doing "something?"

12:11 - Angela's tips for maintaining brand voice and personality with AI

17:49 - Golden idea: How to train AI on your audience

21:45 - The most over- and underutilized use cases for AI in higher ed

25:55 - The AI tools and use cases Angela is finding the most useful today

29:43 - Angela's calling

Can you take a social call?

Every other week, we have a social call with our guest to get to know the person behind the title. We roll the dice to ask three questions, get to know them better, and then play a personalized game.

Clarity Calling is a podcast of Clarity EM.

0:57 - 3 things you should know about Jennifer

3:07 - The horse girl origin story

4:41 - How Jennifer went from studying elementary education to enrollment marketing expert and executive

7:58 - 3 Questions for Jennifer

17:36 - Jennifer's Game: Give me "hay" or give me "neigh"

Are you ready for a strategy call?

Jennifer Lonchar, joined Will for a Strategy Call to discuss the results of the AmbioEDU x Clarity EM survey of how high school students are consuming digital media and streaming services. The full results come out the week of 5/25/26, so this is an early preview.

Clarity Calling is a podcast of Clarity EM.

1:19 - Meet Jennifer Lonchar

3:35 - 2026 High School Media Consumption Survey Results: Reaching students on streaming services

6:36 - Streaming advertising is where digital advertising was 10 years ago, the opportunity is now

8:40 - Tailoring ads to the platform

10:26 - The majority of students are taking action after seeing an ad

13:27 - Seeing brands on TV makes them more credible to students

17:31 - What is working to engage students in video ads

21:30 - Almost half of students are only applying to colleges they see advertised

23:02 - How students are using Pinterest

26:22 - Using the survey results to impact summer melt and yield

35:15 - Jennifer's calling

Can you take a bonus call?

Well, sometimes you know someone so well that you can't build just one game. That's what happened when I called Ange Huffman, so today you get a bonus game called Each Beach. Ange has to guess if a Google Review is about her new hometown, Huntington Beach, or Indiana Beach. Play along and have some fun!

Can you take a social call?

Every other week we have a social call with our guest to get to know the person behind the title. We roll the dice to ask three questions, get to know them better, and then play a personalized game.

Clarity Calling is a podcast of Clarity EM.

1:03 - 3 things you should know about Ange

4:54 - Ange's experience on stage

7:22 - 3 Questions for Ange

12:58 - Ange's Game: Cue the Cusack