Robert Dickeson provides counsel from multiple leadership perspectives: chair of the governor's cabinets in two states, university president, business CEO, and foundation executive. Dickeson served as the director of the Department of Administration and chair of the cabinet of Arizona Governor Bruce Babbitt; and chief of staff, executive director of the Office of State Planning and Budget, and chair of the cabinet of Colorado Governor Roy Romer. He served in administrative posts at three universities and was president of the University of Northern Colorado from 1981-91. He served as president and CEO of Noel-Levitz Centers Inc., division president of USA Enterprises Inc., and senior vice president of USA Group Inc., heading the USA Group Foundation. From 2000 to 2005, he was co-founder and senior vice president of Lumina Foundation for Education.

While at Lumina Foundation, he led the national initiative on college costs, based on his monograph, Collision Course: Rising College Costs Threaten America's Future and Require Shared Solutions (Lumina Foundation, 2004). His book, Prioritizing Academic Programs and Services (Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1999, 2010), was based on his extensive consulting experiences, including serving several hundred two- and four-year colleges (private and public) and corporations ranging from hospitals to bank holding companies. During 2006, he served as senior policy adviser to the Spellings Commission on the Future of Higher Education.
 

Larry Goldstein is the president of Campus Strategies, LLC, a management consulting firm providing services to colleges and universities as well as organizations serving higher education.  He writes and speaks frequently on various subjects related to higher education leadership, management, and finance. His most recent book is College and University Budgeting:  Foundations for Institutional Effectiveness.  Prior to founding Campus Strategies, LLC, he spent 20 years in higher education financial administration. Goldstein, a certified public accountant, earned a bachelor of accountancy degree from Walsh College and a master of science degree from the University of Virginia.

Michael H. Hites advances collaborative vision, strategy, management, and accountability for enterprise-wide information technology services within the University of Illinois’ multi-campus environment.  Over the past decade, he has held C-level positions in information technology leadership including the first Chief Technology Officer at Illinois Institute of Technology, first Chief Information Officer at New Mexico State University, and first Executive Chief Information Officer at the University of Illinois. He is responsible for IT policy, information services, telephone and data networks, application development, training, system administration, desktop services, portfolio and process management, and IT governance.  He has also led institutional research, library services and distance education services. Hites has developed leadership program curricula and led strategic planning and IT planning for several universities. He is member of the SCUP Board and one of Computerworld’s Premier100 IT Leaders.