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Ryan Craig

Ryan Craig

Keynote Speaker: Managing Director at Achieve Partners & Author

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Ryan Craig Biography

Ryan is a Managing Director at Achieve Partners and was formerly an MD at University Ventures. Craig’s commentary on where the puck is going in education and workforce regularly appears in the biweekly Gap Letter, Forbes, and Inside Higher Education. He is the author of the book Apprentice Nation: How the "Earn and Learn" Alternative to Higher Education Will Create a Stronger and Fairer America (2023). He is also author of A New U: Faster + Cheaper Alternatives to College (2018), which describes the critical importance of last-mile training and the emergence of bootcamps, income share programs, staffing and apprenticeship models as preferred pathways to good first digital jobs and was named in the Wall Street Journal as one the Books of the Year for 2018. Craig’s first book was College Disrupted: The Great Unbundling of Higher Education (2015), which profiles the coming shift toward competency-based education and hiring. Craig is a co-founder of Apprenticeships for America, a national nonprofit dedicated to scaling apprenticeships across the U.S. economy and is a senior fellow at the Progressive Policy Institute.

Previously, Craig led the Education & Training sector at Warburg Pincus. His prior experience in higher education was at Columbia University. Craig also founded and built Wellspring, a national network of boarding schools and summer camps for overweight and obese children, adolescents, and young adults. He began his career at McKinsey & Co.

Craig received bachelor's degrees summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Yale University, and his law degree from the Yale Law School.

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What topics does Ryan Craig speak about?

Ryan Craig is a keynote speaker and industry expert who speaks on a wide range of topics such as Finance, Innovation, Consulting, Authors and Economy.

Where does Ryan Craig travel from?

Ryan Craig generally travels from Los Angeles, CA, USA and can be booked for (private) corporate events, personal appearances, keynote speeches, or other performances.

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Ryan Craig is a keynote speaker and industry expert who speaks on a wide range of topics including Finance, Innovation and Consulting. The estimated speaking fee range to book Ryan Craig for live events is $10,000 - $20,000. Please contact us for virtual event fees. Ryan Craig generally travels from Los Angeles, CA, USA and can be booked for (private) corporate events, personal appearances, keynote speeches, or other performances. Similar motivational celebrity speakers are Shiv Malik, Alex Nascimento and Hester Peirce. Contact All American Speakers for ratings, reviews, videos and information on scheduling Ryan Craig for an upcoming event.

Ryan Craig Videos

#LearnLaunch2019 #Keynote - Ryan Craig Education - YouTube
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