Dr. Timothy J. Harrington, Ed.D., is a distinguished academic innovator with over 30 years of passionate educational leadership who has been pioneering distance education since 2004, currently serving as President of Bottega University while maintaining roles as President of the Board of Directors and Interim Director for Mountain Oak Community School, a private community learning micro-center for differentiated learners in Prescott, Arizona. His diverse expertise encompasses local and national on-ground and distance higher education leadership, curriculum management, instructional design, strategic planning, and organizational effectiveness, demonstrated through his transformative work at DeVry Education Group where he managed the largest game and simulation degree program in the United States (5,000+ students, $300 million revenue) and at Cogswell Polytechnical College where he pioneered the first bachelor of arts degree in computer and video imaging. Holding a doctorate in Higher Education Leadership from Argosy University with additional degrees in Education (Special Education) and Industrial Arts Education, Dr. Harrington has worked extensively with ed-tech innovation groups, mentored software development startups, and serves as a consulting partner with Instructional Design Partners while maintaining his reputation as a national speaker on higher education and game theory-based leadership. Living in Hawaii with his wife Kim, an early childhood teacher at Haleakala Waldorf School, he continues teaching woodworking, entrepreneurism, and architecture at the school while pursuing his lifelong passions for photography (capturing “moments between moments” since the 1970s) and woodworking as a partner in Maui Exotic Woods and OSMLiving Solutions, embodying his philosophy of “marrying art, science, and technology” to inspire transformative learning through the integration of academic excellence, practical skills, and creative expression.