STRATEGIC ADVISORY FOR CITIES, UNIVERSITIES, AND DEVELOPERS
Helping leaders align their built environments with the forces shaping the future.
At Hohman Planning & Advisory, Nico Hohman provides insights for leaders shaping tomorrow’s cities and campuses. He translates structural trends into practical, actionable planning guidance.
The Problem
Cities, universities, and developers are making long-term capital decisions in a period of structural change. Demographics are shifting. Enrollment patterns are evolving. Community expectations are rising. Too often, capital plans are built on outdated assumptions. Millions are committed before alignment is fully understood.
Advisory Services
Nico Hohman helps universities, cities, and developers align their major projects with the forces shaping their future. His work brings clarity to the intersection of strategy, planning, and execution.
Nico will assess whether your capital plan matches demographic, economic, and institutional reality. He’ll find misalignment early, clarify priorities, and protect long-term value. Learn more.
Strategic Capital Alignment
Nico combines planning processes with analysis of structural forces and emerging patterns. He pressure tests scenarios, improves decision quality, and keeps the plan grounded. Learn more.
Master Planning Advising
Using tools like the Graduate Youth Index, Nico translates population change into facility demand signals using updated assumptions while quantify generational shifts. Learn more.
Demographic & Demand Intelligence
Nico helps municipalities and higher education institutions ensure long-term infrastructure investments reflect population and economic shifts. Learn more.
Infrastructure & Asset Strategies
The Graduate Youth Index©
The Graduate Youth Index© is a novel metric created by Nico Hohman that is designed to measure the concentration of younger students within the U.S. graduate education population. It serves as a single, intuitive indicator of how young the graduate student body is in any given year.
In Fall 2025, the GYI for graduate students 24 and under was 138.7.
Big Insights.
Real Impact.
Discover how your team can work with Nico Hohman, the leading expert advising universities, cities, and developers on the built environment.
Speaking Engagements
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Construction Owners Association of America (COAA)
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Tradeline Inc.'s College and University Facilities
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Association for Orientation, Transition, and Retention in Higher Education (NODA)
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AMG World's Academic Research Facilities Summit
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Society for College and University Planners (SCUP)
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Council of Graduate Schools
Coaching Services
Nico Hohman facilitates the transformation of individuals into better leaders through the Five Pillars of Virtuous Leadership™. He helps individuals and teams move beyond the strength-based models with his Virtues Alignment Index©, ensuring leaders are neither deficient in their character nor overwhelmed by their excesses.
The Virtues Alignment Index© is a leadership assessment that identifies your unique professional indicator by measuring how consistently you inhabit the optimal alignment across the five core leadership virtues.
Take the Assessment.
Virtues Alignment Index©
Rooted in the Big 5 psychological traits, The Five Pillars of Virtuous Leadership help great leaders should focus on a balanced alignment while understanding their deficiencies and excesses. Learn more.
Five Pillars of Virtuous Leadership™
For higher education, government, and real estate development leaders, these workshops focus on balancing empathy with discipline, anger with justice, and courage with transcendence. Learn more.
The Middle Seat Workshop™
These engagement sessions focus on the long-term viability of individuals, teams, units, and departments to define how leaders can better shape the future of their organizations. Learn more.
Legacy Alignment Coaching
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