Keynote Address

Prof Paul J. LeBlanc

President of Southern New Hampshire University (SNHU).

Dr. Paul J. LeBlanc is President of Southern New Hampshire University (SNHU). Under the 13 years of Paul’s direction, SNHU has grown from 2500 students to over 80,000, is the second largest non-profit provider of online higher education in the country, and the first to have a full competency-based degree program untethered to the credit hour or classes approved by a regional accreditor and the US Department of Education.

Paul won the 2015 NH Entrepreneur of the Year Award, Forbes Magazine has listed him as one of its 15 “Classroom Revolutionaries” and one of the “most influential people in higher education” for 2016. Washington Monthly named him one of America’s ten most innovative university presidents.