Higher Education Specialist Chancellor Strategic Executive Leaders
Resume:
DR. MILTON WALTERS ● ***********@***.*** ● 347-***-****
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DR. MILTON A. WALTERS
25+ Years Generating Transformational Solutions in the Higher Education Sector HIGHER EDUCATION SPECIALIST CHANCELLOR STRATEGIC EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP Innovative global higher education leader with a longstanding record of results in the national and international Higher Education Sectors. Expertise in developing and implementing best-in-class initiatives in the higher education arena that sets organizations apart. A higher education trailblazer with experience in leading national and international universities to greater data-driven success. An enthusiastic advocate of change, efficiency, and modernization. Strong ability to quickly grasp the lay of the land and creatively remove barriers to business success by implementing advanced management methodologies. Academic background includes a Doctor of Business Administration, (DBA), summa cum laude from Argosy University, an Executive Master of Public Administration from Baruch College, City University of New York, and a Bachelor of Professional Studies in Business Administration, magna cum laude, from Metropolitan College of New York. HIGHER EDUCATION LEADERSHIP: Experience directing national and international, online, hybrid, cohort, and traditional education programs, institutional and programmatic accreditation, and reaccreditation, operations management, student and academic affairs, diversity, inclusion, climate, and equity servant leadership, academic programs development, retention, program evaluations, and fiscal efficiency. HUMAN CAPITAL STRATEGIES: Fostered innovative human capital strategies across school districts and regions to recruit and retain highly qualified teachers, administrators, and specialized staff. Implemented effective supervisory models to evaluate staff performance through KPIs. FINANCIAL HEALTH CONTRIBUTIONS: Headed various operational efficiencies initiatives that generated a multi-million-dollar savings. This included labor contract negotiations, preparing a new fiscal operation plan, promoting retirement incentive plans, and the consolidation of staff positions. Servant Leadership Experience
GAIA Business School, Republic of Guatemala, Online, and eight global campuses. A leading Latin American teaching institution. Chancellor, 2020-present
Scope: $3.8M annual budget 138 faculty and staff 3,000 students. Establishes the overall strategic direction and servant leadership for GAIA Business School’s International Accreditation Council for Business Education (IACBE), accredited undergraduate, graduate, doctoral, and micro-credentialing business programs in Spanish and English.
CONTINUALLY IMPROVE ACADEMIC PROCEDURES: Strengths and success in introducing quality in educational processes as the cornerstone of the institution offerings. Fosters a periodic evaluation of academic procedures and the adherence to international education standards. Promotes an academic methodology of “Learning by doing” an educational approach reinforced by three pillars: globalization, accountability, and knowledge applied is wisdom gained.
UNLOCK BARRIERS TO SUCCESS: Laid the ground for success by delivering strategic initiatives such as:
Piloted the final process for initial accreditation by the International Accreditation Council for Business Education (IACBE).
Recognized by Forbes Magazine as one of the most avant-garde Business Schools in Latin America. Ranked #1 in the Republic of Guatemala and #7 Business School in Latin America, with eight global campuses and fourteen international university partnerships. Introduced a new initiative entitled “GIAIA Business School, Guatemala our Responsibility” https://republica.gt/2020/12/15/alianza- comercial-permite-la-creacion-de-un-fondo-de-inversion-para-otorgar-becas, https://prensa.gob.gt/comunicado/inauguran-diplomado- en-emprendimiento, awarding over $ 800,000 dollars in scholarships to national and international student/scholars.
Equity Education
Strategic Operations
Adult Education
HR Management
International Accreditations
Cultural Transformation
School Districts
K-16 Educational Settings
Executive Education
Diversity & Inclusion
Succession Planning
Labor Negotiations
People Management
Online Education
Employee effectiveness
Higher Education
Learning Strategies
Performance Culture
“Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.” - B. F. Skinner
$7M+
Savings
Tech
Impact
Tech
Impact
Career Snapshots
Identified and executed initiatives that positively impacted the bottom-line of a large public education institution.
Efficiently integrated technology and Six Sigma processes to transform operations and generate internal
efficiencies in the higher education system.
Strategically managed significant budgets for public schools comprised of 50+ schools, 25,000+ students, 4.000 resolute employees.
Core Executive Value
Facilitated multi-
million-dollar
savings.
DR. MILTON WALTERS ● ***********@***.*** ● 347-***-****
Implemented a rigorous 21st century New Knowledge Ownership (NKO), academic approach with the core objective that knowledge applied is wisdom gained.
Pittsburgh Public Schools. Pittsburgh, PA The second-largest school district in the state of Pennsylvania Chief Human Resources Officer 2016–2018
Scope: $541M annual budget 3.900 employees Directed HR operations of 54 schools and 25.000 students. Executed fair and equitable employment practices, while implementing innovative supervisory models to evaluate teacher and staff performance, in full compliance with all local, state, and federal regulations.
MISSION-CRITICAL DEVELOPMENTS: Incorporated the use of supervisory models to evaluate teacher and staff performance. Structured KPI’s to help create a district community that promotes cultural response respect, and success for all students. Flawlessly implemented a new employee ERP decided by the Superintendent, as well as applied technology to instructional strategies and professional development.
HIGH-PERFORMANCE WORKFORCE & STRATEGIC INFLUENCE: Recruited and maintained a 99.2 % fully staffed high performance workforce commensurate with the district’s mission. Implemented fair, and equitable employment practices negotiated complex labor agreements and complied with state and federal legislation.
INNOVATIVE LEARNING STRATEGIES: Laid the groundwork for implementing student/scholar learning strategies for diverse populations. Utilized high-quality human capital data to implement best practices for student achievement. Youngstown City School District Youngstown, OH The public-school system for Youngstown, Ohio. Assistant Superintendent/Chief Human Resources Officer, 2015–2016 Scope: $152M annual budget Led one of Ohio’s Big 8 school districts covering 14 schools, 5,500 students, and 900 employees. Promoted the delivery of high-quality instruction among all schools while sharing best practices to drive instruction and designing programs to ensure student/scholars were achieving 21st-century college and career ready learning milestones.
STUDENT DEVELOPMENT: Achieved a district-wide 1:1 educational technology initiative to increase student engagement. Promoted various student support services initiatives, including an inverted organizational design to promote an equity lens of fidelity for sustained academic achievement for all students, the Youngstown Early College Program, implementation of Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge Framework (TPACK), Multi-Tiered System of Support (MTSS), Positive Behavioral Interventions, and Supports (PBIS), Mindfulness, Restorative School-Justice, and community partnership drug and substance abuse services.
MULTIMILLION-DOLLAR SAVINGS: Played a key role in improving the financial health of the district. Examples are:
Facilitated a district-wide operational efficiency plan to turnaround a projected 5-year $48M deficit to $24M surplus. Negotiated a midterm teacher contract agreement that saved $1.8M per year.
Settled a new American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) classified union employees’ contract, generating savings of $1.6M per year.
Structured a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Youngstown Education Association (YEA) offering a retirement incentive, targeted to save an additional $6M over the next five years, strategically increasing the district wide operational efficiency rate to 98.7%.
Consolidated approximating staff positions saving $2.2M per year. Walters 360 & Associates, Silver Spring, MD Higher education consultancy helping educational institutions of all types address strategic issues. Managing Principal Consultant, 2005–Present.
Consulting organizations to cultivate best practices that created viable solutions for improvements in student-centric education services delivery.
INNOVATIVE LEARNING STRATEGIES: Foster innovative national and international, online, hybrid, cohort, and traditional, adult, and higher education programs, and systems, academic affairs, student affairs protocols, adult workforce, and career readiness. Secure small to multimillion- dollar higher education clients’ success by developing 360 and 540 feedback initiatives to create solutions that increase productivity, efficiency and minimize loss.
STUDENT-CENTRIC EDUCATION SERVICES: Deliver data-driven recommendations, with a lens of fidelity for diversity, inclusion, climate, and equity, in the areas of strategic national and international higher education servant leadership. Lean fiscally efficient online, hybrid, traditional, cohort, and early college programs, student recruitment, enrollment, management and retention, culturally responsive rigorous differentiated instruction, and social/emotional wraparound services initiatives. Academic affairs, student affairs and success, business services, academic and technical career readiness programs. Micro demand and on demand credentialing, best in class corporate/field-based training and strategic undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral degree research, curriculum reviews development programs, and implementation. National and international student acceptance, and transfer articulation agreements with, public and private colleges, universities, and systems; college credit(s) by evaluations, academic master planning, and institutional and programmatic accreditation, and reaccreditation. Generated annual
savings of more than
$7M
Efficiently managed
8-Figure budgets.
DR. MILTON WALTERS ● ***********@***.*** ● 347-***-**** Other Professional and Leadership Experiences
The University of Maryland, Global Campus. Adjunct Professor, Business Administration and Management Program. Largo, MD. 2014- present. Co-Facilitator 2022, and Coordinator 2023, CRMSDC, MBE-CEO Pandemic Recovery Academy. https://www.prnewswire
.com/news-releases/minority-business-pandemic-recovery-academy-launched-301556110.html & https://crmsdccares.com/mbe- academy.
Montreat College. Adjunct Professor, Master of Science in Management and Leadership Program. Montreat, NC. 2013-2015.
Verizon Communications. Senior Manager. New York, NY. 1999-2002.
Urban League of Onondaga County, Inc. Director of Employment and Community Economic Development. Syracuse, NY. 1998.
The Empire State College/State University of New York. Founding Director/Professor of Business Program. NY. 1993-1997.
Dean Witter Reynolds, Inc. Supervisory Asset Control Analyst of National Operations, HR Training and Development. NY. 1988-1992.
Hempstead Public Schools. Prospect School, Teacher/Assistant Administrator. Hempstead, NY. 1992-1993. Education
Morehead State University, Morehead, KY. P-12 Administrative Leadership. 2017.
The School Superintendent Association (AASA)/ Howard University. Washington DC. National Urban Superintendent Certification. 2016.
Argosy University, Phoenix, AZ. Doctor of Business Administration -(DBA). 2012. Graduated top 1% of the class with honors distinction.
Bernard M. Baruch College/ City University of New York. Executive Master of Public Administration (MPA) - Public Administration. 1993.
Metropolitan College of New York, NY. Bachelor of Professional Studies (BPS) - Business Administration. 1990. Graduated top 1% of class with honors distinction.
Professional Certifications
Distinguished Fellow, School-Justice Partnership Executive Certification - Georgetown University, Washington, DC.
National Urban Superintendent Certification – (AASA)/ Howard University School of Education. Washington, DC.
Superintendent Certification Commission Qualification Letter - Pennsylvania Department of Education.
Class AA, Educational Administrator (082), Grade Level: P-12. - Alabama Department of Education.
Principal, and Superintendent Certification - West Virginia Department of Education. Professional Affiliations
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services-HHS University Saba Learning Systems
Federal Government Distance Learning Association
Academic Peer-Review Board & Publications-Exec. Member
Learning Management System Communities of Practice
American Institute for Managing Diversity
Intellect database International Academic Consortium
American Association of School Administrators
The School Superintendents Association (AASA)
VP of HR, Director of HR, and Chief People Officer Network
International Higher Education Teaching and Learning Assoc
National Alliance of Black School Educators (NABSE)
American Management Association
Society for Human Resource Management
Baruch School of Public Affairs Group
The Municipal Government Forum
National Forum for Black Public Administrators
American Association of School Personnel Administrators
eLearning / e-Learning/training Community Group
Learning, Education and Training Professionals Group
International Accreditation Council for Business Education
(IACBE)
Business Professors at AACSB Schools
Thunderbird School of Global Management Network
Georgetown University, McCourt School of Public Policy School-Justice Partnership
Publications, Academic Conference Presentations, and Dissertation Committee Service. Publications
“Let Me Count the Ways: Redefining Success for Adult Learners,” American College Personnel Assoc. Annual Conference, Baltimore, MD.2011.
“The Bigger the Carrot: Cognizant Compensation for Effective Human Resource Management,” 2011. Published in the double-blind peer review refereed journal publication “Journal of Knowledge & Human Resource Management”-JKHRM (Volume 4, Issue 9 – July 2011).
“Maximizing Profit through Corporate Social Responsibility: Three Organizational Responses to the Childhood Obesity Epidemic,” 2012. Published in the double-blind peer review referred journal publication
“International Journal of Business & Management Studies.”
“Unleadership: A Case Study in Destructive Micromanagement,” Arabian Journal of Business and Management Review (Volume 6: Issue190. 2016.
“Elements for a code of ethics”: a best practices approach” Journal of Research in Humanities and Social Studies (IJRHSS). 2019. Dissertation Committee Service
Bowie State University, College of Education, Department of Education Leadership: “Examining the Perspective of Technology Teachers and Leadership Practices in Innovative Technology for Instruction in Two Urban Public Charter High Schools,” Marco L. Brooks (Fall 2021, Spring 2023).
Academic Conference Presentations
“Diversity Servant Leadership in the 21st Century.” The Global Conference on Managing Diversity at the University of Georgia. 1995.
“The Tenth Annual National Conference on Recruitment and Retention of Minorities in Education at the University of Kentucky. 1996.
“The Retention Educational Leadership and Student Empowerment: Building Confidence in our Future Conference at the University of Maryland, 1996.
“Seventh Annual International Conference Promoting Business Ethics at St. John’s University. 2000.
“The Bigger the Carrot: Cognizant Compensation for Effective Human Resource Management” presented at the “Intellect database International Academic Consortium,” Nashville, TN. 2011.
“Maximizing Profit through CSR: Three Organizational Responses to the Childhood Obesity Epidemic” presented at the IJAS International Conference for Academic Disciplines at Harvard University. 2012.
“10 “Do’s” for Making Partnerships Work.” The League for Innovation in the Community College, 17th Annual Innovations Conference, Boston, MA. 2015.
“Faculty Qualifications and Development for Online and Emergency Remote Learning” IACBE, Virtual Conference, 2020.
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