Rich TulikangasExecutive Director, M Ed.

Linking Learning To Living – Bonding Education and

Enterprise

Summary• Powerful Connector / Ambassador of Business and Nonprofit• Skilled Alliance Builder• Unique Ability to Speak to Board of Director Councils• Strategic Partnership Builder in the Public and Private

Sectors• Expert Successful Grant Writer and Fund Raiser• Successful Information Manager for Accountability• Staff Team Builder and Manager

• Father, Hockey Player, Golfer, Bicyclist, Lover of Life!

Roots in Upper Michigan

Selected for Michigan’s Boys State

High school class president

Post high school year of travel and work

University of Michigan Social change volunteer work – Eastern

Kentucky, NYC, Washington DC

Summer study in Yugoslavia

B.S. Natural Resources Learning to Work Projects Abroad Working Learing to Earn Project in Darfurv=

Graduate Study Interdisciplinary program in Education &

Social Services M Ed. in Organizational & Human Resource

Development, University of Vermont Doctoral courses in Educational Leadership Post graduate course at the Inter-

University Centre for Post Graduate Studies - Yugoslavia

Broad Employment Experience

Merchant mariner Wood products worker

Movie production assistant Garden equipment salesman

Camping tour leader around US and Canada

Youth Professional/Educator Hands-on experience working with at-risk youth Promotion to youth program coordination/staff supervision Internship to hire as state cooperative education director

for Vermont Department of Education Creation of new statewide programs – Jobs for VT

Graduates, VT REAL Enterprises Director of new school restructuring venture Loaned to Governor’s Office by Dept. of Ed. To create new

statewide school-to-work office & plan Graduate course instructor and school-to-work

professional development director at the University of Vermont

Non Profit Executive Founding director of Linking Learning to

Life (now Navicate) Established 501(c)(3)structure Led growth from local to regional to

statewide organization Successfully secured funding from over 75

public and private funders Expanded to serve over 5,000 Vermont

youth annually

Professional Expertise & Experience

Strategic planning Program and curriculum development Organizational development & management Training for educators and employers Partnership creation Multi-sector convening Budget development Staff recruitment and supervision

Contact: Linked In public profile Click here Navicate (formerly Linking Learning to

Life) Executive Director rich@navicate.org 802-734-8170