PARTNER

Wallace Pond has been a transformational change leader for decades, serving in multiple CEO, executive, and partnership roles. Wallace is a founder of Idea Pathway and the Transformation Collaborative, supporting transformative thinking and operational excellence across all segments of higher education and the private-sector.

PARTNER

Ms. Ffrench is an award-winning marketing executive with 15+ years of experience within Higher Education marketing. She has held senior roles in a wide range of learning institutions; from niche nursing schools to fully Online universities who experienced growth from 1,500 students to over 50,000 during her tenure. She has held full P&L responsibilities, managed advertising budgets in excess of $250MM annually and is experienced marketing domestically and internationally.

ADVISOR

Diane Auer Jones is an experienced higher education leader with expertise in higher education policy, accreditation, regulatory compliance and instructional delivery. Most recently she served as the acting Under Secretary at the U.S. Department of Education, where she led successful negotiated rulemaking efforts to reform accreditor recognition, update distance education regulations and eliminate poorly designed Gainful Employment regulations.

FUNCTIONAL EXPERT

Tonya Henry brings 35 years of student finance, student services, and operational experience across multiple sectors of higher education. As someone who comes from a socio-economically deprived community, Tonya has always believed that education is critical to social mobility and personal success, having completed undergraduate and graduate degrees herself. She is a strong advocate for educational access for all.

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Guy Bell is an experienced education executive with broad experience leading public and private institutions through change. He attributes his success in strengthening performance to his long-held belief that when you get people right, you get business right. To support this maxim, Guy has routinely adopted education technologies and analyzed data to improve decision making and to create time to connect with people.

FUNCTIONAL EXPERT

Colonel (Ret) Jim Hendrickson has been a change leader in senior level positions within the military and civilian occupations for over three decades. Strategic and systems oriented transformational change and start-up expert focused on improved performance, budget friendly, sustainable operations in changing environments.

THOUGHT LEADER

Nathan Hoffman is the CEO of the Galilee Culinary Institute ("GCI") by JNF, a new institution designed to reinvent culinary and post-secondary education. He is responsible for strategy, operations, and launching the institute. Hoffman has over 18 years of diverse experience leading business operations for both startups and established organizations, and previously served as a Jewish National Fund lay leader where he helped start the Arizona JNFuture chapter.

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Yolanda Gallegos established her law firm, Gallegos Legal Group, in 1998 and has represented private sector schools throughout the country for 30 years. She is a frequent speaker and writer on a variety of regulatory topics affecting higher education including her chapter on the Violence Against Woman Act regulations, which was published by Thomson Reuters in its book, Emerging Issues in College and University Security.

THOUGHT LEADER

Greg Washington is an experienced organizational leader who has dedicated twenty years to helping students gain access to higher education and to achieving their career goals. Greg transitioned to higher education from a career as a Special Forces Officer in the US Army. His executive leadership experience includes Chief Academic Officer, multiple campus presidencies, university-level Vice President of Operations, corporate-level Vice President of Academic Operations, and leadership of a college with an enrollment of 10,000 students. Dr. Washington currently teaches doctoral students while also serving as President/CEO of an education holding company that operates a premier, education-based childcare facility. Greg serves on the Board of Directors of Nana Grants, a nonprofit dedicated to assisting single mothers as they pursue higher education.

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Linda Baer brings over 35 years in executive level positions including teaching, research, and leadership experience and commitment to innovation, excellence and student success, with a particular focus on capacity building, high power learning environments, analytics, and transformative change. She has served as a faculty member, researcher, author, a higher education system senior vice chancellor, campus university senior vice president and interim president, Senior Program Officer at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in Student Success, and a Senior Fellow at Civitas Learning. She presents and writes on change agent leadership, educational transformation, building capacity in analytics and student success.

THOUGHT LEADER

David Leasure acts on his belief that all people have amazing potential, and sometimes need a little help unleashing it. He taught and researched computer science and learning for seven years, served twice as a dean, twice as a president, thrice as provost, and has always advocated student success. David serves as collegiate professor of first term experience at the University of Maryland Global Campus. Prior to UMGC he served as provost of Western Governors University. He actively researches student and faculty success and the role of technology in individual and institutional success.

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Dr. Nam Pham, a Ph.D. in economics, is an experienced economist, data analysist, and researcher. He is skilled in policy analysis, cost-benefit analysis, business development, and strategy, serving clients across a broad range of private sector and educational organizations.

FUNCTIONAL EXPERT

Dr. Linda Henman, The Decision Catalyst ®, is the author of seven books, including The Merger Mindset and the founder of the Henman Performance Group, a consulting firm located in St. Louis, MO. For more than 40 years she has helped executives and boards in Fortune 500 Companies, universities, and small businesses accelerate growth. Some of her clients include leaders at universities like Washington University and Webster University and in organizations like Avon, Emerson, Estee Lauder, Kraft, and Tyson Foods. Linda is a psychologist with expertise in individual, group, and organizational assessment.

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Lou Pugliese is the former executive vice president of the University of Maryland Global Campus, where he brought more than 20 years of experience in e-Learning innovation. The founding CEO of Blackboard, a thought leader and successful venture-growth entrepreneur with a passion for seeking and engaging new ways to disrupt, displace, and advance business models, Pugliese’s multidisciplinary career spans private sector entrepreneurship, education focused private and public equity and academic administration and research.

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Anda Goseco is a globally recognized Executive Coach based in the Philippines, working with both small organization and Fortune 500 executives, empowering them to lead great workplaces by helping them uncover their blind spots and streamline decision-making. Anda cuts through the noise, asking tough, probing questions with insight and empathy, creating a safe space for risk-taking and growth.

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Dr. Joe Sallustio has been thinking differently about education for a long time, both as the COO of one of America’s most unique universities and as the founder of the EdUpExperience. He has become a go-to source for transformative thinking in American higher education, with focused expertise on student acquisition, digital media, and operations.

THOUGHT LEADER

Dr. Walker has over thirty-five years of progressively responsible teaching, administrative, and leadership experience in postsecondary education. He has held the positions of Instructor, Curriculum and Program Developer, Director of several university programs and institutes with statewide program delivery missions, Vice Provost, Interim Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs, Assistant to the President, and President at two Universities for a combined twelve years.

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Dr. Morriss-Olson is a nationally recognized higher education thought leader, speaking and writing often on topics such as higher education innovation, disruption and leadership, and academic program evaluation and management. As Bay Path University Provost, she led the re-engineering of the learning community and structure including the development of the Thumbprint—Bay Path’s distinguishing educational aspirations—as well as the Women Empowered as Learners and Leaders (WELL) signature program.

THOUGHT LEADER

Don Tuttle, a thought leader in the industry, is co-owner and managing partner at Top Gun Ventures LLC, a national retained executive search consultancy that assists clients in all industries find and attract GameChanging leaders. As the chairman of the board at Lindenwood University, Don understands the critical role that executive and board leadership plays in the success of higher education today.

THOUGHT LEADER

Joel English is Executive Vice President at Centura College, Aviation Institute of Maintenance, and Tidewater Tech, where he leads 20 campuses across the country. Dr. English was Chairman of the Board for both the Accrediting Commission of Career Schools and Colleges (ACCSC) and the Career School Private Education Network (CSPEN), and he formerly served as CEO of Ohio, Illinois, Colorado, and Miami Media Schools (2013-2015). Joel is a best practice expert with industry partnerships and community outreach, establishing powerful, game-changing partnerships to benefit students and employers.