Gary Withers

Gary Withers, President of Concordia University’s Foundation, is a catalytic, collaborative, and entrepreneurial team leader and team member. His leadership in higher education and community health focuses on the development of strategic and community partnerships that lead to systems change, resulting in stronger and more vibrant communities, especially focused on lifting up the least advantaged.

Mr. Withers serves as incubator and co-leader of a trailblazing new national model for education called 3 to PhD®. He is meta-facilitator who has helped drive a vision for this innovative and evolving educational initiative since its infancy. As such, he has brought his passion, expertise, and diplomacy to a collective impact model that requires forming cross-sector alliances, solving complex challenges, and igniting deep thinking.

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