Donna Canestraro

About Donna Canestraro

Over the course of her 30+ year career, Donna has worked across the globe, working on public sector and not for profit innovation efforts. She is a speaker and facilitator, who has delivered over 200 thought-leadership and strategy development sessions for organizational leaders all over the world. Donna is instrumental in leading organizations towards meeting their goals and focuses on building capability in each organization that she works with. She is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP) with large-scale project management experience applied in a variety of complex business and technical environments. She is the owner of DSC Leadership Consulting, LLC specializing in thought leadership seminars, project management consulting and strategic planning and governance. She is also an adjunct professor in Government Information Strategy and Management, a nationally ranked academic program offered by Rockefeller College of Public Affairs & Policy at the, University at Albany. Her project-based course is highly sought after for it provides graduate students with an interdisciplinary, experiential learning opportunity within government and not for profit organizations focused on project management and business analytic skills. Donna recently retired as Program Director at the Center for Technology in Government (CTG) at the University at Albany/SUNY. In her capacity at CTG, Donna lead multi-sector and multi-disciplinary teams from the U.S. and around the world to produce new knowledge and actionable results. Her portfolio included working with New York State government, United States federal government, New York County governments and Associations, United Nations Secretariat, UN Department of Economic and Social Development and many others. She has published numerous research and practice articles detailing how organizational capabilities, information policies, management practices, and technology choices intersect to shape organizational operations and services. She is currently a Government Fellow at the Center where she is focused on continuing with collaborative writing projects with her colleagues.

Experience

1. Adjunct Professor

   University at Albany

   Aug 2014 — Present · Albany, NY, US

   I currently teach Enabling Innovation in the Public Sector\" as part of Rockefeller College top ranked program Government Information Strategy and Management offered by the Public Administration and Policy. The course presents a formal methodology for making IT investment decisions including problem definition, stakeholder analysis, process analysis, best and current practices, technology awareness, and case building. Students will learn through engaging with in a project with a university or government customer to build a business case for a new IT investment. This course is based on the Center\'s 20 + years of research and practice.

Education

• University at Albany, SUNY

  MS Education, Curriculum Development and Instructional Technologies

  1998 — 2000

• University at Albany, SUNY

  Master of Science - MS, Education

  1998 — 2000

• State University of New York College at Plattsburgh

  BS Education

  1973 — 1977