Helping Campus Leaders Integrate

Compliance, Culture and Strategy

Strategic advising, external policy and process reviews, and leadership

development for academic institutions navigating change and complexity

Leading through Complexity

Whew. . .talk about a complicated time to be a leader in academia. Trying to maintain alignment with institutional values, balance the needs of your various constituencies, and comply with state and federal requirements, all while under the persistent expectation that you do more with less — it’s enough to understandably overwhelm even the most seasoned administrators. 

With 20+ years of experience navigating sensitive, compliance- and culture-related issues in higher education, Seven & Nine is attuned to the needs of leaders and works directly with presidents and chancellors, provosts, cabinet-level executives, deans, equal opportunity and human resources officers in need of a little extra bandwidth, support, and objective perspective.

Your concerns are common, but the needs of your campus are unique.

How Seven & Nine Helps

Complex Issue Advising & Case Consultation

  • Experienced, candid and confidential advising around specific and sensitive issues, prompting the generation of new ideas and appropriate, bespoke solutions.

  • Expert advice for responsibly navigating challenging cases that require knowledge of relevant laws and policies, while integrating a compassionate and trauma-informed approach.

  • Individualized, confidential, and non-judgmental coaching for executives leading values-driven organizational change.

  • Facilitation of effective change management strategies aligned with your goals, incorporating lenses of compliance and culture.

  • Custom training and workshop facilitation for institutional leaders.

Executive Coaching & Leadership Development

Policy/Process/Structure Reviews & Culture Audits

  • Objective assessments, reporting on themes identified across employees’ and/or students’ perceptions of campus or departmental climate, including recommendations for further exploration.

  • Identification of culture, access and productivity barriers at the root cause, effective and efficient options toward goals, all while ensuring compliance and judiciously avoiding red flags.

“I highly recommend Amy Circosta for her exceptional expertise in workplace compliance, leadership, and change management. Her ability to foster a culture of respect and align teams with organizational values has been instrumental in driving meaningful transformation. With a strategic and analytical approach, she empowers organizations to engage in dialogue and create inclusive environments that thrive on integrity and collaboration.”

Dr. Tracey Robinson
Vice President for the Division for Access, Compliance and Engagement, West Chester University of Pennsylvania

Our Approach

Necessary Perspective

Seven & Nine adds an objective perspective to your leadership circle that not only deeply understands the culture of academia, but also offers expertise on organizational culture and maintaining institutional compliance.

Embedded Partner

Working with Seven & Nine is unlike other consulting firm relationships. Seven & Nine’s Founder, Amy Circosta, seamlessly embeds herself within your leadership team, offering candid, confidential, and continuous guidance throughout your change management priorities. Amy leads change initiatives from start to finish and ensures critical lenses have been considered.

Candid, Non-Judgmental Support

Seven & Nine is honored to serve as an objective, reliable, and non-judgmental sounding board for leaders as they negotiate highly sensitive issues. As such, Amy provides additional capacity through trusted, peer-level counsel and support.

We help you achieve your goals in alignment with your values and strategic priorities.

Amy Circosta, Founder of Seven & Nine

Results Achieved with Seven & Nine

  • Resources & Reputation

    Provided clear guidance on optimizing internal equal opportunity case management processes, ultimately ensuring compliance and building community trust through transparency and increased timeliness of quality services.

  • Academic Excellence

    Facilitated a comprehensive self-assessment project across multiple internal colleges to reduce bias in STEM fields, and collaborated with institutional leaders to create a resulting nationally-recognized action plan that met specific state law parameters.

  • Student Success

    Created opportunities for recruitment- and retention-focused professionals to engage with institutional data and with one another, discovering insights through disaggregation and identifying areas of strength and challenge around which to design strategies.

  • Strategy & Innovation

    Designed and facilitated the implementation of sustainable, malleable departmental strategic plans through a lens of compliance. Enhanced plan by confidentially gathering valuable qualitative data from employees for insight on departmental operations.

  • Campus Culture

    Conducted a thorough assessment of institutional sexual misconduct prevention and response efforts, with attention to Title IX compliance. Identified and prioritized strategies for enhancing safety.

About Seven & Nine

Amy brings deep experience in university compliance, culture, and leadership as well as the ability to speak candidly and compassionately about topics many people wish they could avoid but still must address. University leaders hire Amy when they’re under pressure to manage sensitive issues, feeling stuck on how to lead through conflicting guidance, or looking to create real, lasting change.

From spearheading award-winning initiatives to resolving nuanced conflicts and avoiding costly litigation, Amy’s legal background and forward-thinking guidance ensures institutions not only meet compliance requirements but supports an environment in which faculty, staff, and students can thrive. Amy evaluates internal systems, designs policies related to anti-discrimination, offers training on compliance and institutional culture-related strategies, and has extensive experience in preventing and addressing sexual violence on campuses. Amy is frequently working creatively within and around the red tape to achieve identified goals.

Prior to founding Seven & Nine, Amy served within higher education institutions in roles including: Interim Vice Provost for Institutional Equity & Diversity, Associate Vice Provost for Equal Opportunity, Title IX Coordinator, ADA Coordinator, and University Ombuds.

Amy is also Co-Founder of HF+C, a joint project with Chrysalis Network that is specifically dedicated to eliminating sexual harassment within higher education communities.


Amy Circosta, JD, Founder

Why “Seven & Nine”?

Title VII of the Civil Rights Act and Title IX of the Education Amendments are two of the laws Amy works with most foundationally. Amy’s kids also happened to be those ages at the time she incorporated the business (time flies!).

“Amy is a sharp and genuine thought partner. I felt supported and more confident in my leadership strategy given the smart, insightful perspectives Amy brought to the table.”

Sheri Schwab, Vice Provost, North Carolina State University

"Amy deeply understood our specific needs and helped us identify specific, actionable strategies to enhance existing safety efforts on campus."

Dr. Brian Cole, Chancellor, University of North Carolina School of the Arts

Contact Us

Feeling like you could use extra bandwidth? We can help.

Please reach out via the online form, to Amy by email at amy@sevenandnineconsulting.com, or by phone at (919) 740-0924.

Messages are confidential.