Breaking Away From Your OPM (Without Breaking Your Business)
How to reclaim control and reduce operational and student disruption.
Leaving a revenue-share OPM can be the right strategic move. It can also expose just how deeply the provider has become embedded in your institution’s operation. Recruitment campaigns are still running, applicants are still moving through the funnel, students still need support, and critical data, technology, accounts, processes, and institutional knowledge may still sit outside your control.
That is why any OPM exit should be treated as a business-continuity program, not simply a contract decision or procurement event. The goal is not to move every capability in-house overnight. It is to determine what your institution should own, what it needs to build, and where the right strategic partner can protect performance, expand capacity, and help transfer capabilities over time.
Breaking Away From Your OPM
(Without Breaking Your Business)
Tuesday, August 25
1:00 pm ET / 12:00 pm CT
Join Matt Lachey, Associate Vice President of Partner Solutions at Collegis Education, for a practical discussion on how to assess OPM dependence, define a more flexible future-state operating model, and sequence the transition without putting enrollment performance or the student experience at risk.
What you’ll learn
This webinar will help institutional leaders move beyond the question of whether to leave an OPM and focus on how to execute the transition with confidence.
You’ll learn how to:
- Identify hidden risks of OPM dependence across economics, operations, data, technology, talent, brand, and the student experience.
- Assess transition readiness and determine which capabilities to own, build, or partner for.
- Define an operating model that restores institutional ownership of strategy, data, technology, decision-making, and financial visibility.
- Build a phased transition roadmap aligned to enrollment cycles and student needs—not just the contract end date.
- Protect students at every stage of the enrollment journey with clear ownership, tested handoffs, and cutover readiness.
- Leverage strategic partners to maintain momentum, fill capacity gaps, and build internal capability without creating new dependencies.
Who should attend
This webinar is designed for executive and functional leaders evaluating an OPM renewal, non-renewal, transition, or broader operating-model reset, including:
- Presidents, chancellors, and cabinet leaders
- Provosts, chief online officers, and academic leaders
- Enrollment, marketing, and student success leaders
Expert speaker
Matt Lachey
Associate Vice President of Partner Solutions
Collegis Education
Matt leads strategic partnerships and custom solution design to help institutions address challenges across enrollment, operations, and technology. With more than 16 years of higher education experience, he focuses on aligning institutional goals with scalable, performance-driven strategies. He works closely with senior leaders to design programs, processes, and partnership models that balance innovation with practicality and improve experience, efficiency, and growth.
Reserve Your Spot
An OPM exit should leave your institution with more control, not a different version of the same dependency.
Register to learn how to protect enrollment in flight, reduce operational and student disruption, and build a transition plan that moves your institution toward a more flexible, sustainable operating model.
Complete the form on the top right to reserve your spot. We look forward to seeing you on Tuesday, August 25.