Amigos Mentor Program
Carl is the author of Raising Global IQ: Preparing Our Students for a Shrinking Planet, and a globally recognized expert on international conflict analysis, management, and resolution. After serving as the Director of Boston University's Global Literacy Institute, he co-founded and is now Chief Education Officer of Boston-based Secure Communities Group (SCG), which assists corporations, health care facilities, religious institutions and K16 schools and universities around the world with crucial security threat assessments and recommendations, including cybersecurity attack preparation and prevention.
Fluent in English, Spanish and French, and a working knowledge of Mandarin and Arabic, Hobert teaches his audiences how to build more secure Communities of Trust where prevention of violence, rather than the reaction to it, becomes the norm. Carl provides audiences with convincing examples of his successes in conflict resolution work with youth, adolescents, and adults on 4 continents, and his near-death experience in Africa in 2018.
With an exceptional stage presence, this passionate life-long author and educator offers understandable, ready-to-institute, step-by-step solutions to today's growing threats that leave listeners uplifted and prepared to confront challenging issues in their professional and personal lives at once.
Carl has a BA in French and Political Science cum laude, and an MA in Spanish, both from Middlebury College, and an MA in International Security Studies from the Tufts University Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy.