Don Haggerty is a leading educator in the field of experiential learning. With decades of experience as both a business professional and professor, he has spent his life bridging the worlds of business and education. Don was educated at Providence College (B.A., Economics) and the University of Vermont where he received his Masters of Arts in Teaching (MAT), Masters in Business Administration (MBA) and Doctorate in Educational Leadership (Ed.D.). Previous to joining higher education, Don enjoyed a highly successful and decades-long career in corporate business development, entrepreneurial ventures and consulting. His expertise includes economic modeling, business strategy and new business creation. For the past twenty years he has served as a professor, program developer and administrative leader in experientially-based business education at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. At Champlain College where he currently teaches, Don created and launched an experientially-based MBA and then oversaw the development of ten graduate programs built around his own project-based and Action Learning inspired model, called Integrated-Reflective-Practice (IRP)(c). His most recent work has been teaching the areas of Business Strategy, Managing Innovation and Technology, Leadership and Business Capstone projects (undergraduate and MBA). He is also working with the college's online programs to include greater use of experiential learning models. He is the co-author of Leading My Department, republished as Leadership's Broken Link that connects employees at all levels with their organization's strategy through collaborative learning.
