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Qualifications

Resilient Capacity Advisors Principal, Rick Astray-Caneda III, brings Public Sector Facilitation, Consulting, and Capacity Building experience from 15 years of consulting honed at Deloitte, Accenture, and Public Consulting Group.

Facilitator and Human Centered Design Leader

15 Years facilitating engagement and Design Thinking programs for state and local Human Services capacity building at 10+ agencies and departments. Projects typically included both quantitative data exploration / visualization and qualitative programs of engagement, research, and co-creation.

  • Weaver and Tidwell, Senior Manager

  • Accenture, Manager

  • Public Consulting Group, Manager

  • Deloitte, Senior Consultant

  • MAXIMUS, Senior Analyst

Global Program Startup

Leader in startup of the Deloitte Global Center for Crisis Management.

  • Organized global, in-person, multi-day programs to train senior leaders in offering and selling new services.

  • Designed and led a program to monitor for crises 24/7 and rapidly brief Deloitte leaders when clients were impacted.

  • Led a series of crisis briefings for Deloitte leaders worldwide.

United Nations / Private Sector Partnership Consulting

2 ½ Years as a Pro Bono Consultant to the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction Private-Sector Partnership.

  • Developed and led a strategy exercise for global corporate leaders to use in setting the group’s strategy.

  • Led a series of two dozen disaster risk reduction project case studies.

  • Led a program to more than double the group’s LinkedIn group size using a strategic series of content posts by global corporate leaders.

 Nonprofit Leadership

Leader of a regional HIV and AIDS nonprofit.

  • Led the group from a reactive position to a proactive one addressing health equity and social equity by commissioning and funding a study to design a new hub and spoke model for HIV/AIDS care.

  • Lead ongoing nonprofit operations to ensure rapid response to patient needs.

Education

PhD, Public Affairs, Florida International University, 2013
Focus on social vulnerability and resilience in relation to disaster mitigation policy.

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Master of Public Administration, Florida International University, 2005

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