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James Stavridis, WQU Advisory Board Member, joins Conversations with Mike Milken Podcast

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Earlier this month, James Stavridis, Retired US Navy Admiral, former Supreme Allied Commander of NATO, and WQU Advisory Board member, was featured on the Conversations with Mike Milken podcast to discuss Coronavirus, leadership, and the future of education, medicine, and work culture.

The podcast, created by the Milken Institute, engages a range of industry leaders to help better understand and confront the Coronavirus crisis that has not only altered our current day to day, but will also change the course of how we work, socialize, and fight disease for years to come.

“I think that education will kind of be the canary in the coal mine shaft for ‘tele-everything.’ In other words, everyone's getting more comfortable with telemedicine, teleworking. I think it's going to be tele-education that's going to be on the absolute front foot in this regard. You're going to see it at every level in education, but particularly I think in higher education…"

-James Stavridis

You can listen to the full episode here.

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