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Rick Strasser

Arlington, Virginia

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.

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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 - 2025)
  • 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, Grant Thornton & Hutton Webcast, “The New Era of College Athletics: Navigating NIL and Collectives,” December 2025
  • Presenter, Grant Thornton & Hutton Webcast, “The New Era of College Athletics: Navigating NIL, Revenue, and Risk,” October 2025
  • Presenter / Panel Member (2x), NACUBO Annual Conference, July 2025
  • 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

Industries

  • Not-for-profit & Higher Education

Services

  • Advisory Services
  • Commercial and Growth
  • Growth
  • Operations and Performance
  • Financial Modernization
  • Technology Transformation
  • Transaction Advisory
  • Business Consulting
  • Not-for-profit & Higher Education

 

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