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DR. ERIC A. CANNY ***** East Montgomery Road

Scottsdale, AZ 85262

A transformational leader with a global perspective. 612-***-**** *********@*****.*** EDUCATION University of Southern California Doctorate in Education, May 2016 New York University Master of Arts in Education, May 1995 New York University Bachelor of Fine Arts, May 1993 PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Las Virginias ECGV 2019 - Current

Co-Founder

• Las Virginias ECGV is a local, family, and minority-owned small business that targets services in the Latino community in Phoenix, Arizona, and Mexico.

Global Risk Mitigation Foundation 2016 - Current

Founding Director & Chief Innovation Officer, Board of Advisors

• Conduct on-going risk assessment and gap analysis. Responsible for successful processes of innovation and change management. Identify new markets, analyzing trends, market disruptions, and emerging opportunities. Methodology expert and facilitator who took potentially disruptive innovations and forward from seed stage to the market. International Risk Mitigation Corp. 2018 - 2021

Partner and Chief Innovation Officer

CEA Study Abroad 2016 - 2018

Vice President Program Management

• Implemented worldwide division that resulted in a higher-performing integrated organization and ensured best practices adopted across all locations with data-driven innovation. Deployed worldwide training program, moving CEA into a learning organization.

• Responsible for ensuring that all 24 program sites functioned at a high level across geographies, cultures, and program types. Programs served 4,800 students per year in standard, hybrid, online, and customized programs. Ensured critical metrics around student retention, satisfaction, enrollment, and site profitability improved.

• Led staff globally, bringing value to the sites as measured by newly created operational scorecard goals. Visionary, strategic, transformational, and collaborative leader improving program operations, quality, budgeting, and student and staff issues around site operations. Oversight of budgets above $24,000,000.

• Created new assessment models for measuring program consistency. Assessment and data models allowed for the segregation of data from a site to a global level across all courses and program areas and student's entire experience. Implemented longitudinal research on outcomes of programs with alumni and designed and implemented a holistic student success initiative, bridging student life, wellness and health, and academic needs. This model resulted in 30% fewer student incidents and increased academic performance.

• Responsible for risk assessment and management globally.

• Worked with university relations team in enrollment pipeline growth. Opened three new locations on two continents. Genesis Films 2017 - 2021

Co-Founder & Producer

• Founded and producer of film company, that resulted in Humano International Film Festival. Augsburg University 2014 - 2016

Dean, Global Education

• Member of the Senior Academic Leadership Team, Provost’s Cabinet.

• Advanced the University’s award-winning distinctive vision of Global Education rooted in experiential cross-cultural understanding, social justice, environmental stewardship, and critical thinking. Honored this 150-year heritage while implementing new programs, enhanced operations and policies, internationalizing the curriculum in collaboration with faculty, and implemented new assessment models and new strategic initiatives.

• Set a strategic international education vision for Augsburg University. Measured outcomes via a new high impact practices model. Worked with faculty and academic leaders in designing, implementing, growing, and assessing on and off-campus, virtual, and hybrid international learning opportunities, including external language school.

• Responsible for overseas programs in more than 40 countries, including permanent operations in five. Oversaw global operations and academics that provided educational and research opportunities to more than 21,000 participants, 1,100 customized programs and welcomed students from 330 US higher educational institutions. Annual programming increased to more than 90 customized programs. Developed new international research opportunities and funding.

• Aligned all Global Educational goals to institutional goals to increase curricular, co-curricular, and revenue opportunities. In less than two years: initiated new long and short-term US and overseas programs, reversed enrollment trends into a positive trajectory, increased profit-margin, and net- revenue.

• Upgraded information and operational systems, developed new marketing campaigns. Oversaw annual operating budget above USD 7 million. Collaborated with Institutional Advancement to increase gift and endowed funding. Secured USD 750,000 in endowed funding, in addition to increasing annual campaign giving.

• Responsible for risk assessment and management globally. Stetson University 2011 - 2014

Executive Director, International Learning

• Member of the Senior Academic Leadership Team, Provost’s Cabinet.

• Led the University’s new strategic goal to “make intercultural learning vital to the Stetson Experience.” Within two years: tripled exchange programs and participation rates, increased academic and co-curricular programming, tripled international student applications with a 20% increase in enrollment, and welcomed the most international scholars in Stetson’s history. Redesigned and launched internal and external-facing marketing, opened state-of-the-art international offices and deployed new integrated software to manage all international operations. Oversaw re-organization of budgeting, including lowering study abroad costs while increasing services, increased sponsored students, and re-engagement with local, national, and international entities in international education broadly.

• Facilitated the definition of targeted international learning outcomes and led the development of programs that significantly integrated international learning opportunities for students across all institution divisions. Implemented high impact practices WORLD WISE (WORLD, INTERCULTURAL, SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY, ENGAGEMENT) initiative with measurable learning outcomes across curricular and co-curricular areas. Implemented new on and off-campus, virtual, and hybrid international learning opportunities, including ELS language program at the University.

• Oversight of the University’s Cross-Cultural Center. Worked with various University entities, including the Diversity Council, Center for Community Engagement, Admissions, Values Councils, Campus Life, and Student Success.

• Administrative and budgetary management of all international programs of the University. Oversaw budget of USD 3.5 million. Collaborated with Institutional Advancement to increase gift and endowed funding. Secured naming endowed gifts above USD 1 million, in addition to increasing annual campaign giving. University of North Texas 2008 - 2011

Director, International Initiatives

• Leadership and oversight across the Division and University in deploying initiatives to enhance and integrate international operations in support of both the UNT Strategic Plan and the Strategic Plan for Research.

• Supervised the implementation of a wide range of new international education programs in the US and overseas Including oversight of admissions processes, financial projections, facilities, contract negotiation, legal and HR issues, academics, accreditation, and marketing. Enhanced processes to ensure accurate reporting and processing of all international data and compliance with federal, state, and local laws and regulations.

• Expanded opportunities for international programs and faculty research opportunities, including increased relationships with local and foreign governmental, educational and private sector entities.

• Collaborated with Institutional Advancement to increase gift and endowed funding. Part of the team which secured the the largest donation in the institution’s history, USD 22 million, from an international alumnus. University of North Texas 2010 - 2011

Acting Director Global Learning and Experience

• Oversight of all study abroad opportunities. Doubled the number of STEM majors studying abroad and UNT faculty involved with all programs, and study abroad participation rose 28% in two years.

• Deployed innovative new faculty-led study abroad, field/research experiences, and exchange programs to enrich students' academic experience through curricular integration of international opportunities.

• Secured new funding sources, including endowments, grants, and financial aid for education abroad. Implemented a new financial model for faculty-led study abroad, resulting in increased revenue. Oversaw annual budget of approximately USD 2 million.

• Implemented a state-of-the-art multidimensional database linked to front-end user websites for marketing, admissions and processing of incoming and outgoing study abroad programs, tracking all official University international travel, tracking all incoming international non-student visitors, tracking all foreign university partnerships and faculty initiatives. New York University 2002 - 2008

Director, Global Student Services

Placement in Florence, Italy from 2004

• Ensured efficient management of 10 study abroad sites. Deployed new procedures and processes aligned with University academic and co-curricular values promoted the well-being of more than 4,000 students abroad annually.

• Designed and deployed multiple data systems as NYU's global presence expanded, linking operations globally to support exponential increases in enrollment and complexity of operations in academic and geographic scope. Linked this to enhanced admissions, pre-departure, wellness abroad, and re-entry guidance materials and processes.

• Oversaw all aspects of student life at NYU in Florence, including staffing, housing, visas, facilities, co-curricular and developmental programming, mental and physical health, student life budget over USD 1.5 million annually. Oversaw housing and student life revenue and expenses globally, above USD 35 million annually.

• Crisis response point of contact for the University coordinating emergency response globally 24 hours a day.

• Development of site operational start-up budgets ranging from USD 300,000 to $1 million as well as annual operational budgets to USD 10 million.

New York University 2000 - 2002

Executive Assistant to the Provost and Vice-Chancellor New York University 1999 - 2000

Assistant to the Vice Provost for Global Affairs

Hetrick-Martin Institute 1996 - 1999

Director of Educational Services

Columbia University in the City New York 1996

Student Activities Coordinator

New York University 1995 - 1996

The Faculty Resource Network

Program Coordinator/Writer

FACULTY POSITIONS

University of Southern California 2017 - Current

Doctoral Program in Organizational Change Leadership

• Analyzing Organizational Change and Its Effectiveness

• Building Capacity for Organizational Change

• Capstone Courses

• Challenges in Accountability

• Doctoral Capstone Assistant

• Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

• Chair Cohort 12 Doctoral Students

• Framing Educational Leadership in a Global Context

• Framing Organizational Change and Leadership

• Independent Research

Grand Canyon University Fall 2019 – Current

Colangelo College of Business

• Team Innovation

• Team Innovation Lab Experience

STETSON UNIVERSITY 2014

HONORS PROGRAM

QUALIFICATIONS

Languages: Professional English, Advanced Spanish, Conversational Italian. Presented globally, nationally, and locally on:

• Business Continuity Planning

• Crisis Management

• Crisis Planning

• Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

• Employee and Student Success/Motivation

• Human Centered Design / Equity Based HCD

• Integrated Implementation and Assessment Planning

• Learning Program Design, Evaluation & Assessment

• Strategic Planning

• Organizational Change and Culture

• Organizational Alignment

• Opening of offshore operations

• Policy formation

• Risk Assessment and Mitigation

Delegate to the World Innovation Summit on Education (Doha, Qatar) and international delegations with private and US governmental entities.

Authored various chapters, including engaging and preparing underrepresented students in study abroad and student success models in international education.

Team-lead for opening U.S. higher educational institutions in ten countries, and expansion in more than 20. REFERENCES AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST.

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