Chad Williamson
CEO, Fluid Education
About Chad
Chad Williamson is the CEO of Fluid Education Inc., an education services company that helps small and mid-size universities build and grow their online programs. Mr. Williamson is an expert in business development within the education industry. Mr. Williamson has more than 18 years of experience creating strategic alliances between corporations, organizations and higher education institutions. As one of the pioneers in educational business development, Mr. Williamson has been responsible for creating and/or enhancing the business pipeline channels of some of the largest education institutions in the nation as well as some of the largest corporations in the world.
Mr. Williamson was previously the Business Development Officer at Arizona State University EdPlus, where he created its business development division and led EdPlus to approximately $10 million per year in revenue in less than 2 years. He also built the Corporate Development and National Accounts divisions at Ashford University over a 4 year period. Mr. Williamson resides in Scottsdale Arizona with his 2 children and wife of 20 years.
Session:
11:00am – 11:45am
B/C
EDU
How Universities Are Creating Long-Term, Sustainable Student Growth Through Partnerships and Alliances
More than 60 percent of companies nationwide provide tuition assistance benefits to their employees, yet only 4 percent of employees utilize the benefit.
In this session, we will explore how universities (traditional and for-profit) are partnering with companies like Starbucks, Cigna and Uber help them educate and develop their staff
Universities generate high quality students while companies use their tuition assistance benefit to recruit, develop, engage, and retain employees — making both organizations more efficient, effective, and productive. Learn how your organization can leverage this under-utilized resource.
