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Intro
Hi! I'm Jake Erney. I build and design things that help people and institutions meet the future with a little more confidence and a lot more humanity. Right now, that work lives inside higher education, where I'm the Director of Strategic Initiatives for Academic Innovation at UT San Antonio, one of the country's largest and fastest-growing R1 public universities. But the title is the least interesting thing about what I do. I've been successful in relationship management, leadership strategy, and enterprise technology, with a strong focus on artificial intelligence ecosystems.
Personal Vision
The best work is creative work. The most durable strategies I've seen didn't win because they were the most rigorous; they won because someone made them land, told the story, read the room, built the momentum. I refuse to treat imagination as separate from seriousness, or fun as separate from excellence. Fun is a feature, not a perk. The teams that understand that build things people actually adopt. So the vision isn't a job. It's a way of moving through the world: pairing systems thinking with storytelling, ambition with honesty, and technology with the people it's supposed to serve.
Goals
I think about goals in terms of the impact I want to have, not the titles I want to collect.
Entrepreneurial Projects
- More to come
Skills
- AI Strategy
- Change Management and Adoption
- Strategic initiative and program design
- Cross-institutional facilitation and stakeholder engagement
- Survey instrument design; qualitative and quantitative analysis
- Emerging tech landscape and capability synthesis
- Digital literacy enablement and workshop facilitation
- Data and survey tools (Qualtrics); project management (Agile / Waterfall)
- Executive communications and storytelling
- Creative direction and visual/brand production (Adobe Suite, Canva)
- Live facilitation and audience engagement
My Industry of interest is
61 Educational Services
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San Antonio, TX, USA
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