Richard Khleif

Bio

Rich Khleif brings 30 years of diverse global business leadership, combined with 26 years of teaching and scholarship, to leverage theory toward practice in the classroom. With time in the public sector, at small-to-medium businesses, and in the Fortune 100 space, he has held various senior and general management positions across sales and services, marketing and communication, data analytics and operations, customer success, support delivery, L&D, and other areas.

Khleif speaks domestically and internationally about communication topics; has designed and taught a broad range of multidisciplinary university courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels; holds several technical certifications; and has been the recipient of various industry and academic awards. A deep believer in applied public intellectualism, Khleif’s research interests include cross-cultural organizational communication; social impacts of technology; and topics at the interstices of ideology, narrative formation, and praxis within social systems.

Education

Rich holds a BA in Political Science from the University of New Hampshire; an MA in Integrated Marketing Communication from the University of Colorado Boulder; and a PhD in Mass Communication/Media Studies, also from CU Boulder.