The top roles in higher education have never been harder. The financial pressures, the political environment, the questions about relevance and value — this is genuinely new territory, and it is arriving faster than most institutions can absorb.

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Darcie Milazzo works with a small number of presidents, provosts, and senior academic leaders — in complete confidence, with no agenda other than theirs. The work requires a quality of presence and depth of relationship that cannot be diluted. That is why she works with few people, and why the leaders who seek her out tend to stay.

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Leaders who work with Darcie lead more honestly, act more courageously, and develop the rare capacity to read what's emerging, shape the future and the institution's response. 

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For more than a decade she has served as a co-creator and co-director of the Academy for Innovative Higher Education Leadership — a program co-sponsored by President Michael Crow of Arizona State University and President Emeritus John J. DeGioia of Georgetown University. For more than twenty-five years she has partnered with senior leaders at Stanford, Georgetown, Arizona State, the Nature Conservancy, the World Bank, and beyond.

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If this work speaks to where you are, she welcomes a direct conversation.
darcie@penncannon.com