Ted’s work centers on advancing ASU's ninth design aspiration-- Practice Principled Innovation. Ted collaborates with university leaders to embed practices that draw on values, character, civic and intellectual assets to drive human flourishing at ASU and beyond.
Most recently, Cross was an Associate Dean of Innovation at Western Governors University and previously a Clinical Assistant Professor of Leadership and Management, as well as the Director of Online Programs at the Thunderbird School of Global Management at ASU. Ted has also served as the Deputy Chief of Staff at EdPlus, as a University Innovation Fellow at ASU, and in a variety of faculty and leadership positions at Grand Canyon University.