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Writer's pictureDr. Fardad Fateri

Interview Part 1: What Brought Dr. Fardad Fateri to Higher Education




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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