Owen Eagan

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Owen Eagan, MBA (Pepperdine University),  M.A. (Emerson College),  B.A. (Clark University). Owen is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Communication Studies and specializes in measuring and assessing strategic communications in business and political environments. In addition to serving as a faculty member at Emerson, Owen is a Senior Vice President for Consensus Strategies, a management consulting firm that specializes in strategic advocacy for major corporate and institutional clients. He has worked on more than a hundred political campaigns, including the successful ballot initiatives for the $5 billion rail transit proposal in Honolulu, Hawaii, and the $2.6 billion Wynn Resorts proposal in Everett, Massachusetts, which received record support of 86.5%. 

Course: The Art of Organizing
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Owen Eagan)

This course offering will cover key steps and approaches to being a good organizer and how one can build an effective organization using both in-person and online strategies. Historical and contemporary case studies from around the world will be used to demonstrate these organizing principles.


Suggested Readings and Videos:

1. How Great Leaders Inspire Action / Simon Sinek / TEDx Puget Sound

https://www.ted.com/talks/simon_sinek_how_great_leaders_inspire_action?language=en

2. Online social change: easy to organize, hard to win / Zeynep Tufekci / TEDGlobal

https://www.ted.com/talks/zeynep_tufekci_online_social_change_easy_to_organize_hard_to_win?language=ug#t-5172

3. AOC’s Among Us livestream hints at Twitch’s political power / Tanya Basu / MIT Technology Review

https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/10/21/1011038/aocs-among-us-livestream-hints-at-twitchs-political-power/

4. How Obama Tapped Into Social Networks’ Power / David Carr / The New York Times

https://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/10/business/media/10carr.html