Shaping the built environment for the future.
STRATEGIC ADVISORY FOR CITIES, UNIVERSITIES, AND DEVELOPERS
Big Insights.
Real Impact.
Nico Hohman is the leading expert advising universities, cities, and developers on the built environment. He translates structural trends into actionable planning guidance.
The Problem
Cities, universities, and developers are making long-term capital decisions in a period of shifting demographics, changing enrollments, and rising community expectations. Too often, millions of dollars of capital plans are built on outdated assumptions before alignment is fully understood.
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.
Nico Hohman helps universities, cities, and developers align their major projects with the forces shaping the future. His work brings clarity to the intersection of strategy, planning, and execution.
Advisory Services
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
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
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Teaching, Learning & Innovation Summer Institute
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Leadership in Educational Facilities
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Facades Plus Washington, D.C.
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™
The Middle Seat Workshop™
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.
Legacy Alignment Coaching
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.
Graduate Youth Index 2026 Speaking Tour
Join Nico Hohman at these amazing conferences and events to learn more about the shifting graduate student trends.
Towson, Maryland
March 20th - 22nd
NODA 2026 Spring Learning
Scottsdale, Arizona
March 29th - 31st
Tradeline College & University Facilities
Virtual / Online
April 24th - 25th
NODA 2026 Virtual Learning
Denver, Colorado
April 29th - May 1st
COAA 2026 Spring Connect
Washington, D.C.
May 18th - 21st
Teaching, Learning & Innovation Summer Institute (TLISI)
Chicago, Illinois
June 2nd
AMG Academic Research Facilities Summit
Chicago, Illinois
July 11th - 15th
Council of Graduate Schools New Deans Institute
Washington, D.C.
July 15th - 18th
APPA Annual Conference
Minneapolis, Minnesota
July 19th - 21st
Society of College and University Planners Annual Convention
Asheville, North Carolina
August 10th - 12th
International Teaching & Learning Cooperative