Dr. Khoury engages organizations and encourages them to dream big. His riveting personal story and transformational work inspire people to think about opportunity, education, and equity in new and profound ways. Is your organization wrestling with how to embrace sustainability while delivering value to stakeholders? Dr. Khoury is an experienced change agent, having transformed a declining, environmentally focused educational institution into a nimble and responsive innovation center and national leader in sustainability science-based education. He will inform, energize, and challenge your team to think about these topics in new and fresh ways.

It is no secret that AI is transforming how we work, think, and lead; however, many of today’s leaders are still uncertain about how they can harness its potential. Dr. Khoury cuts through the noise and shares the real, practical strategies he has learned through his own leadership experience and how you can replicate those strategies within your organization. As a dynamic and engaging speaker with nearly three decades of leadership experience, he provides insights into how you can integrate AI into your leadership toolkit, so you turn technological disruption into a competitive advantage.

Board governance is often treated as a compliance exercise, a series of check-the-box meetings designed to preserve the past and maintain the status quo rather than transform the future. Dr. Khoury rejects that approach for tuition-driven institutions. Drawing on the governance redesign he led, which helped transform Unity Environmental University’s trajectory, he shows leaders how a reimagined board structure can be one of the most powerful tools for financial sustainability, speed, and long-term resilience.

Too often, leaders try to “act like an owner,” which can be good for their organization’s bottom line, but it misses a key component of leadership: stewardship, which includes guardianship, continuity, and legacy. Dr. Khoury draws on his over twenty-five years of executive experience to bring wisdom and candor to conversations on leadership. He shares how to authentically address the needs of different groups within an organization and how to transform fear of the unknown during times of disruption into a catalyst for growth, resilience, and innovation.

Higher education doesn’t need another incremental tweak; it needs leaders willing to question the assumptions that have shaped higher education for generations, including the traditional academic calendar, delivery model, and very definition of a learner. Dr. Khoury has spent his career doing exactly that, rebuilding programs and pathways around access, affordability, and outcomes rather than tradition for tradition’s sake.

Financial sustainability vs. environmental sustainability, is one more important than the other? Do you have to choose? The answer is no. As the leader of the first university to divest its endowment portfolio from fossil fuels, Dr. Khoury has first-hand experience with the financial benefits of being an environmentally sustainable institution. He discusses how, while it may sometimes seem like financial and environmental sustainability are mutually exclusive, they are actually intertwined, and when strategically aligned, they reinforce each other to drive success.

Growth doesn’t happen by accident, and it rarely happens without friction. Dr. Khoury has led Unity Environmental University through one of the most dramatic enrollment and operational transformations in recent higher education history, growing the institution from roughly 550 students to over 10,000. Along the way, he had to help an entire institution let go of a traditional academic culture anchored in a two-semester, residential model and create a new cadence that embraces a term-based calendar and enrolls students year-round.