Richard Moglia-Cannon

Management Consultant

Richard Moglia-Cannon has been working to improve urban public schools for over 30 years. He is currently a management consultant, working to implement change, improve systems, and scale-up innovative ideas.

Previously, Mr. Moglia-Cannon was the Chief Financial Officer for the National Center on Education and the Economy and its subsidiary, the National Institute for School Leadership (NISL), from 2008-2019. Simultaneously, he was the Director of Scale-up for NISL, helping to improve the academic achievement for over 1 million students.

From 1999-2008, Mr. Moglia-Cannon was an education consultant, working with schools to improve student achievement and helping education reform organizations to scale-up their innovations.

From 1990-1999, Mr. Moglia-Cannon was the Vice President and Chief Financial Officer for the National Center on Education and the Economy (NCEE), helping it go from a start-up to a $20 million organization. During this time, NCEE laid the ground work for the Common Core state standards, was the architect for the country’s first legislation supporting the school-to-work transition, and created the most widely used and most impactful whole school reform model

From 1981-1990, Mr. Moglia-Cannon worked for Price Waterhouse, the blue-chip accounting and management consulting firm, as an auditor and management consultant. He became one of the firm’s education experts after leading a half dozen consulting projects for large urban school districts. He passed the CPA exam in 1981.