Rick Strasser
Managing Director, Not-for-Profit and Higher Education Growth Advisory Services
Grant Thornton Advisors LLC
Rick’s professional advisory experience includes leading a variety of strategy and technology engagements across the not-for-profit, higher education, federal government, and healthcare industries.
Arlington, Virginia
Industries
- Not-for-profit & higher education
Service Experience
- Advisory
- Commercial and growth
- Growth
- Operations and performance
- Finance modernization
- Technology Transformation
- Transaction advisory
Rick Strasser
Executive summary
Rick is on Grant Thornton’s national Not-for-Profit and Higher Education Leadership Team and his professional advisory experience includes leading a variety of strategy and technology engagements across the not-for-profit, higher education, federal government, and healthcare industries. He has extensive experience advising and presenting to higher education executives, not-for-profit C-suite executives, senior government executives, military general officers, and congressional members and staffers, and leading engagements ranging from strategic, targeted projects to large, complex programs with global teams of 200+ individuals. His advisory project experience with mission-driven organizations includes strategic planning, organizational strategy, university budget strategy and process enhancement, multi-year financial projections and modeling, reserves planning, business process analysis and reengineering, IT planning and strategy, and change management and training strategy, design, and execution.
Community involvement
- Member, Board of Directors – National Association of Wabash Men (2009-2012, 2022-2024)
- Member, Board of Directors – Wabash Club of the DMV (2008-2014, 2021 -Present)
- Volunteer, DC-area healthcare group (2021 – Present)
- Alumni Mentor, Syracuse University Whitman School of Management (2016-2018)
- Member, Summer Games Leadership Committee – Special Olympics DC (2004-2014)
Presentations and publications
- Presenter / Panel Member, NACUBO Annual Conference, July 2024
- Presenter / Panel Member, WACUBO Annual Conference, April 2024
- Presenter, GWSCPA NFP Symposium, December 2023
- Presenter, Grant Thornton Webcast, “Aligning Strategy for Growth,” May 2023
- Presenter / Panel Member, EDUCAUSE Annual Conference, November 2018
- Presenter / Moderator, AGA National PDT, Nashville, TN, July 2015
- Author, “People, process and technology: An essential triad for government payroll modernization”, Federal Times, October 22, 2020
Education
- Master of Business Administration, Syracuse University
- Master of Public Administration (Executive), Syracuse University
- Bachelor of Arts in History, Wabash College.
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