About

After over two decades in international/higher education as both a faculty member and administrator, Todd Lee Goen founded Global Puzzles, LLC to assist other people and organizations in their own global development.

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Previously, he served as Director of Global Education and Senior International Officer at Virginia Military Institute and held full-time faculty positions at Christopher Newport University, Indiana University-Purdue University Forty Wayne, and Clemson University teaching courses in human communication and quantitative research and directing seven study abroad programs.

Professionally, Goen is active in leadership of a number of organizations. He is a former Chair and Coach of the NAFSA Academy, an active member of NAFSA’s Trainer Corps and a Management Development Program Trainer. He's also an IDI Qualified Administrator. He’s served on multiple Forum on Education Abroad Working Groups, the AIEA Strategic Planning Taskforce, and currently is a member of the AIEA Professional Development and Engagement Committee. Goen’s scholarly accomplishments include over eighty presentations as well as service as journal, conference, and grant reviewers. His scholarship and professional writing appears in publications such as Communication Research Reports, Family Science Review, International Educator, and the Journal of Global Initiatives: Policy, Pedagogy, and Perspective.

Goen is an Honors College Graduate with a BA in Computer Science, French, and Vocational Ministry from Harding University, holds an MA in Communication from the University of Arkansas, and completed all coursework toward a PhD in Communication from the University of Georgia. He is the 2020 recipient of the Southern States Communication Association’s John I Sisco Excellence in Teaching Award, the 2022 recipient of NAFSA’s Lily von Klemperer Award for supporting and strengthening professional development in education abroad, and the 2023 recipient of Safe Abroad's International Education Safety Champion of the Year.​​

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