In this interview, Dr. Fardad Fateri discusses what brought him to higher education, and his book “A Culture of Excellence: The Art, Discipline, and Practice of Breakthrough Leadership."
Transcript:
welcome back again this is the inner
voice and I'm doctor Foojan and I'm
delighted to have dr. Fardad Fateri
who's the president and the CEO of
International Education Corporation
which owns and operates accredited
college across colleges across the
United States he is the author of a
culture of excellence the art discipline
and practice of breakthrough leadership
dr. Fateri is a part of a small group
of chief executives in American higher
education today with significant
experience in the imperative but rare
interwoven triad of academic operations
and business verticals with over 25
years of experience in higher education
and graduating from UC Irvine and
Harvard University's dr. Fateri has
served as a professor department chair
Dean regional director college president
division president chief academic
officer for director and presidency of
several medium to large-sized nonprofit
market funded and privately held systems
and we have him with us now welcome dr.
Fateri thank you so much thank you
for the invitation happy to be here
wonderful well I know that as I was
reading your book it seems like you were
on top of the executive cars everywhere
and then suddenly you decided to let go
of all of that and come and join this
wonderful organization for higher
education tell us about that what
brought you into letting go of one group
and coming and creating the
International Education Corporation yeah
great question
you know I was previously a senior
executive at a very large market funded
Corporation but like many others I'm I
don't think I'm unique in that I truly
wanted to find purpose in my life and I
wanted to lead a life that matters and
at that point I started looking for
purpose in life and I wanted
leverage my experience as a higher
education professional to do so so it's
at that point that I found International
Education Corporation in in in the in
late 2007 and that's when along with
colleagues have taken on the
responsibility of running this this
company wonderful when you talk about I
want to find my purpose and mission and
I know that in your book you will also
talk about individuals and corporations
needing to find their value their
mission in a sense what what makes to
those values come to a space where you
say this is my mission this is what I
really want to do this is who I want to
be and how I want to serve yeah you know
it's not an individual quest it's more
of a collaborative effort so you know
every organization like every country
has its own culture some organizations
spend a lot of time developing their
organizational culture but some
organizations don't do anything but they
still have their own specific very
unique culture at IEC we definitely took
a deliberate approach in identifying
values that over all together we held
dear and and and we made those values a
part of who we are and we acculturate
all of our new colleagues within this
organizational culture and we make it a
standard of excellence for all who join
our organization so it is it is a
deliberate approach in making sure
culture transcends across all of our
disciplines and all of our functional
verticals wonderful dr. Fardad Fateri
who has created and it's an e-book a
culture of excellence the art discipline
and the practice of a breakthrough
leadership dr. Fateri where can
people will get your book actually the
book is also
sold in paperback it is available in
digital format
my co-author James York and I very
excited to have that Amazon is probably
the fastest and most accessible way to
the book
About the Author: Fardad Fateri
Dedicated to the advancement of student success, leadership development, and organizational excellence, Dr. Fardad Fateri has devoted his 30-year career to catalyzing innovation and transformation in American higher education.
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