Ty Rallens
TYSON RALLENS joined ACCS this September as Executive Vice President and sits on the Concordis Executive Council. He is also Director for Classical Leadership Programs at the Templeton Honors College, Eastern University, and chairman of the board of directors for the CiRCE Institute (currently on sabbatical). He first encountered classical education as a homeschooler in Boise, ID and subsequently attended both New Saint Andrews College and the University of Idaho simultaneously. He spent fifteen years at Hewlett Packard Enterprise in engineering, management, and business operations while also moonlighting as a rhetoric teacher and mock trial coach at The Ambrose School. Having already earned an MBA and an MSt in Literature and Arts from the University of Oxford, he is currently writing up his dissertation for a doctorate in business strategy from the Oxford’s Saïd Business School. For Tyson, the field of strategy integrates the possibilities arising from technology and organization, with the ideals of the good life and the good society. During his ten years living in Oxford, Tyson gave tours for thousands of visitors to The Kilns—C.S. Lewis’s historic house in Oxford, where he lived and Directed the C.S. Lewis Study Centre. His greatest accomplishment to date is teaching the fundamentals of crew rowing to hundreds of Merton College freshers.