Quan Anh Cao
Quan Anh Caois one of the leading nationally and internationally recognized language education and cross-cultural counseling trainers. He designs and writes curricula, conducts leadership training, facilitates strategic planning, and performs process evaluations of programs across the USA, as well as in 6 other countries.
Mr. Quan’s extensive background and experience in education, cross-cultural human services and community and leadership development include consulting with private sector multinationals (Siemens, AT&T, Ford Motors, American Express, Scholastic, Center for Applied Linguistics, Houghton-Mifflin, College Board) and public-sector institutions (State Departments of Social Services, Education, Health, and Mental Health in 45 states and federal agencies, including NIMH, NCBE, OELA, USHHS, USDOS, USINS). He is well-known with CBO and NGO Board of Directors for his mediation and facilitation skills in the areas of strategic planning, consensus decision-building, and team mindmapping.
In the areas of cross-cultural education, he has provided consultation to the US Department of State Refugee Resettlement Overseas program, the United Nation Higher Commissioner for Refugees and the Center for Applied Linguistics in Bataan, Philippines, Phanat Nikkhom, Thailand and HongKong. He co-led teacher workshops, paraprofessional workshops and parent involvement workshops under the auspices of the State Departments of Education with the cooperation of the Spring Institute for International Studies and Lakeview Associates in Colorado, California, North and South Dakota, Minnesota, Missouri, Kansas, Utah, Texas, Oklahoma, North and South Carolina, Mississippi, Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia and Florida. He is currently the lead Cross-cultural Diversity Trainer and Authot for Coursecrafters Academic ExcELLence Institutes and workshops in Massachusetts, California and Florida.
His published works include Forgiveness & Forgetfulness: a symbolic and rehabilitative relationship between society and individuality, Inside Out: Leadership Training for Parents of Exceptional Children. Re-defining: A Book of Questions for the Millennium and In The Echo Chamber are currently in press.
Mr. Quan earned an International Baccalaureate from Lycee Pasteur, Saigon, a Bachelor of Arts in French, German and International Affairs, a Master of Arts in Transformational Grammar and Existential Theatre, and a Ph.D.(AbD) in Multilingual Multicultural Instructional design and Program Evaluation from the Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida. In addition to his full-time professorship, he is also the CEO & founder of the SCDJ Group, the CIO of the Infinity Foundation, the Senior Clinical Associate of Cao & Associates, and the Managing Partner of Spectrum Knowledge East Coast.