FOR UNIVERSITIES, RESEARCH CENTERS & HEALTH SYSTEMS
Faculty Thrive Where Institutions Invest Deliberately
Faculty attrition, stalled grant pipelines, and burnout are the predictable result of systems that never taught faculty how to sustain a research career. Thrive Institute partners with universities, schools of public health, medical centers, and research institutes to build that infrastructure directly into your faculty development and research administration strategy. Every engagement is grounded in the same framework that drives the success of funded programs of research. We bring that same rigor to the people producing your institution's science.
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Tell us about your faculty, your goals, and your timeline, we'll build a scope and quote around them.
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Why Institutions Partner With Thrive
• A decade building faculty development programming, not a pivot from an unrelated industry.
• Created by a researcher who has navigated the same funding, publishing, and tenure pressures your faculty face.
• Programming grounded in published, peer-reviewed research frameworks.
• Flexible delivery: virtual cohorts, on-site intensives, or fully custom hosting at your institution.
• Built for measurable outcomes departments can report upward: retention, grant submissions, manuscript velocity, and faculty satisfaction.
The Faculty Development Accelerator
A structured, cohort-based accelerator institutions license as a benefit for early-career and mid-career faculty.
The Faculty Development Accelerator (FDA) gives your faculty the professional infrastructure their PhD never did: how to build a fundable research agenda, protect time for deep work, communicate their science with authority, and design a career that doesn't require burnout as a prerequisite for tenure.
Built for institutions that want to:
- Strengthen ESI and early-career faculty retention
- Support DEI and faculty success office mandates with substantive, outcomes-driven programming
- Give faculty a shared language and cohort experience across departments
- Complement (not duplicate) existing mentoring and grants-office support
How institutions bring it in:
- Cohort licenses for a department, school, or centerÂ
- Co-branded rollout with your faculty affairs Â
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Bring the Accelerator to Your Faculty
Request a proposal for a departmental or institution-wide cohort.
Request a proposalEvidently: Research Leadership Training
Enterprise-grade training for the researchers your institution is counting on to lead.
Evidently is our B2B research leadership offer, built for institutions that need to develop the researchers already inside their walls into PIs, center directors, and grant-funded leaders. Where the Accelerator meets individual faculty where they are, Evidently is designed to be commissioned directly by a research office, center, or health system as a leadership development pipeline.
Built for institutions that want to:
• Build a bench of research leadership ready for center directorships and large grants
• Standardize research leadership training across departments or a health system
• Give a research center, CTSA, or COBRE program a credible, evidence-based leadership curriculum
How institutions bring it in:
• Commissioned cohorts for a research center, department, or health system
• Delivered virtually, on-site, or in a hybrid format
• Scoped around your institution's specific leadership pipeline goals
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Commission a Leadership Cohort
Request a proposal for Evidently at your institution or center.
Request a proposalCustom-Hosted Writing Retreats
Bring the retreat to your faculty, fully designed, facilitated, and hosted at your institution.
Manuscripts and grants stall not for lack of ideas, but for lack of protected time and structure. Our writing retreats are fully custom-designed and hosted on your campus (or a location of your choosing), giving faculty dedicated, facilitated time to move real manuscripts and proposals forward, with the accountability structure and facilitation to actually finish.
What's included:
- Custom agenda built around your faculty's actual manuscripts, grants, or writing goals
- On-site facilitation for the full retreat, including structured writing sprints and troubleshooting sessions
- Â Pre- and post-retreat support: goal-setting intake and a follow-up accountability check-in
- Â Tiered scope options, from a single-department retreat to a school-wide, multi-day intensive
Built for institutions that want to:
- Move a backlog of manuscripts or grant proposals in a concentrated window
- Give a department, center, or ESI program a high-impact, high-visibility faculty benefit
- Â Create a shared, protected space that departments can't otherwise manufacture on campus
Host a Retreat at Your Institution
Request a proposal — we'll scope the format, agenda, and facilitation to your faculty.
Request a proposalKeynotes & Workshops
Single-session, high-impact programming for kick-offs, symposia, and faculty development days.
For institutions that want a focused, high-energy touchpoint rather than a multi-week engagement, our keynotes and workshops bring the same research-backed frameworks into a single session, built for ESI kick-offs, faculty development days, DEI programming, and center symposia.
Popular formats:
• Single keynote or workshop session (60–90 minutes)
 • Multi-session workshop series for a department or program
• Topics spanning research productivity, sustainable career-building, and navigating academia without burning out
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Book a Keynote or Workshop
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Request a proposalHow an Institutional Partnership Works
Tell us about your faculty
Share your goals, faculty size, timeline, and budget context through a short intake.
We build a custom proposal
You'll receive a scoped proposal, program design, format, timeline, and investment, built around your institution, not a one-size-fits-all package.
We deliver, together
From co-branding with your faculty affairs or DEI office to post-program reporting your office can use, we work as an extension of your team.
Let's Build Something for Your Faculty
Whether you're scoping a single retreat or a multi-year faculty development partnership, we'll meet you where your institution is.
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