Leadership Message From Vice Chancellor Petitt

Welcome to the Division of Organizational Transformation, a division designed to be a catalyst for systemic institutional change at UC San Diego.

Our goal is to help UC San Diego become more effective, more connected and more human-centered. We help to foster an institution where students, faculty and staff can thrive, where leaders are equipped to navigate through complexity, and where every member of our community can experience a meaningful sense of belonging

We understand that lasting change is not achieved through isolated programs or individual acts of goodwill. It requires transforming the systems, structures, cultures, practices and relationships that shape Tritons’ experiences every day.

Our work focuses on student, faculty and staff success, leadership development and belonging because these priorities are interconnected and because institutional excellence depends upon all of them.

We envision an institution where every member of the Triton community has the opportunity to flourish, every leader has the capacity to advance meaningful change, and every part of our university contributes to an exceptional educational and healthcare experience.

Our strategies are intentionally diverse and responsive to both challenges at hand and as well as systemic issues. We use data and inquiry, organizational assessment, leadership development, capacity building, strategic partnerships, process improvement, innovation, communication and culture change to help move UC San Diego from aspiration to action.

Everyone is an agent of transformation.

Systemic change is not the responsibility of one division, one leader or one office. It is a collective endeavor. The decisions we make, the systems we design, the questions we ask, the relationships we build and the practices we normalize all shape our institution.>

We Foreground our Values

Heart

We lead with compassion, empathy, connection and care.>

Collectivism

We believe transformational change is created through shared purpose, partnership and collective action.

Justice

We are committed to ensuring fairness and equity in access, opportunity and institutional support.

Community

We build relationships, trust, connection and a shared sense of responsibility for one another and our institution.

Hope

We believe change is possible. We imagine what could be and work together to build it.

We will not simply ask our campus community to do more. We will help it work differently. Above all, we will keep our focus on the people at the center of UC San Diego because organizational transformation is ultimately about human possibility.

Together, we can build an institution where excellence, opportunity, belonging and innovation reinforce one another and where the UC San Diego experience becomes better because all of us have helped transform it.