Aaron Andersen is a Senior Partner at Cicero Group and serves as executive lead for Cicero’s Higher Education practice. In this role he focuses on helping systems and institutions of higher education develop data-driven strategies to improve student outcomes, enrollments, and operations. Prior to joining Cicero Group, Aaron worked for over a decade in leadership roles in higher education. His experience included high-profile direction of large-scale operational restructuring efforts, consolidating disparate business units into new reporting, data management, and program delivery structures. In addition, he has led significant vertical optimization initiatives, bringing marketing, acquisition, conversion, and retention efforts into alignment around aggressive organizational targets. His experience also included key roles managing cost and resource management and allocation processes through periods of institutional retrenchment, evaluating and standardizing policies across business units, and architecting solutions to align faculty and administrative interests. Specific to his higher education work since joining Cicero Group, Aaron has led large-scale engagements with institutions and systems across the country, helping these systems to develop and implement comprehensive student outcome improvement-focused strategies across a range of different approaches including strategic planning, analytics and data strategy, operations improvement, and program evaluation and development, among many others.
