Eric Larson is the founder of The Organizational Detectives. As an experienced company CEO and nonprofit administrator with brief forays in academia and government, he is committed to helping organizations thrive. “When teams are winning, many of the supposed issues evaporate. I love working alongside leaders and their team managers to investigate, identify, and solve the problems facing their organization.”After graduating summa cum laude from Duke University, Larson worked briefly as an investigative reporter for The Anniston Star newspaper and Newsweek, winning awards for spot news reporting and community journalism. He served as public grants writer for the AIDS Resource Center of Wisconsin and then as a health volunteer in the Republic of Kiribati for the U.S. Peace Corps before returning to the States and starting his own digital media company, which earned him Entrepreneur of the Year (2009) from his local chamber of commerce and Best in Multimedia from the PR Association of Western North Carolina.Larson sold that company and worked as Director of Marketing and Communications for the College of Design at N.C. State University. In 2015, he earned his MBA and a Graduate Certificate in Healthcare Management from East Carolina University and developed a number of soft skills and leadership growth programs for CompTIA, the world’s largest IT trade association. A fan of puzzles and games of all types, he is the author of the Rett Swinson Mystery novels under the pen name Eric Lodin. He lives with his family in Raleigh, NC.
