Eric Dupree, MBA, Management Specialist
dupree1952@aol.com

Eric Dupree is a Management Specialist for T/TAS and has extensive hands-on managerial experience providing services to Head Start and Early Head Start programs in large multi-county, urban/rural programs. Since 1975, Eric has worked in the human service field as a Home-Based Supervisor, Head Start Director, a Community Action Agency Executive Director, and consultant. He has a B.S degree in Business and a Master's in Business Administration, and believes in the theory that effective managers should "Inspect what They Expect."

Eric's specialty areas are management and operations of Head Start and Early Head Start Programs, new Head Start Director mentoring/coaching, new agency Director mentoring, home-based supervision, program governance, strategic planning, team building, community partnerships and linkages, facilities, and lease negotiations. As a Management Specialist, Eric has provided long term leadership and served as Interim Director for both large urban and small rural Head Start programs.

Eric’s commitment to the field resulted in two gubernatorial appointments, one to serve on the Crockett County Tennessee Better Schools Program in 1985, the other to serve on the Tennessee Commission on Children and Youth from 1994-1996. Eric served three terms as the President of the Tennessee Head Start Association, and has also served as Vice President of the Tennessee Association of Community Action Agencies.