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