Dr. Gary Keller is an award-winning educator. He offers his learners more than 30 years of teaching students around the world and has more than 45 published articles including 4 Best Research Paper awards from international conferences and was accorded teaching honors from several institutions. In addition to his teaching, Keller practices his academic skills as a consultant, trainer and facilitator on strategy, leadership, and creativity and innovation. As a practitioner his skills in strategic planning, team development and implementing quality enabled him to turn around several organizations and attain state and national recognition for innovative services and improving financial achievements.
Tom Ling has over 25 years of experience in designing, managing and delivering evaluations. He is a senior research leader at RAND Europe where he is head of evaluation. He leads evaluations and applied research focused on the key challenges facing organisations in health, well-being, and international development. Before re-joining RAND, Ling was head of Impact Innovation and Evidence at Save the Children where his responsibilities included ensuring that evaluations contribute to policy and change in the challenging environment of international development. Prior to Save the Children, Ling spent ten years at RAND Europe as director for Evaluation and Performance Audit following four years as senior research fellow at the National Audit Office in the UK. Before that he taught and researched in various universities.
He has over 20 years’ experience contributing to research projects with the European Commission, Save the Children, UK government departments, the National Audit Office, the Health Foundation in the UK and many others. He has published widely on evaluation, accountability, and related topics. He recently co-edited Performance Audit: Contributing to Accountability in Democratic Government (London: Edward Elgar), following his Performance Audit Handbook and The Evidence Book, a critical examination of the use of evidence in public policy and service delivery. He is a senior research associate with Cambridge University and a Professor (Emeritus) with Anglia Ruskin University.
Tom is also President of the European Evaluation Society (https://lnkd.in/dXwSVAkM)
President of Cambridge Valid Business School
Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, London, Dr Mark Perkins is a dynamic educator in business and academic training and is Editor-in-Chief of Cambridge Explorations in Arts and Sciences (CEAS). Sometime lecturer in universities in Italy, Czechoslovakia, and Sweden, he currently trains faculty and students in various countries and runs training courses for European companies. Mark also publishes widely, and his latest articles have focussed on medical education, technology, and ethics.
Wroclaw University of Economics and Business, Economist, Strategic Advisor, Business Trainer
Research and teaching staff member at the Wroclaw University of Economics and Business, economist, business trainer, strategic advisor, and lecturer in Executive MBA programs.
Professor at HTW Dresden – University of Applied Sciences (2020–2024).
Representative of the Rector of the Wroclaw University of Economics and Business for Cooperation with the Middle East.
Author of over 100 scientific publications and more than 110 presentations at international and national conferences. Over 15 years of practical experience, with more than 2,000 hours of training delivered in economics and management. Developer and implementer of 32 strategies for local government development, tourism, culture, revitalization, and promotion, as well as 10 development strategies for non-governmental organizations (NGOs). Additionally, authored 8 grant applications for projects co-financed by European Union funds, all of which received funding.
Managing Director For over a decade and a half Mark has been delivering Lean training, facilitating Lean process improvement events, and advising on the establishment of Lean programmes.
Mark’s clients come from a range of sectors including charity, government, health, higher and further education, law, medical research, philanthropy, and retail. They can be found around the globe in countries such as Australia, Ghana, Ireland, Malaysia, New Zealand, Saudi Arabia, the UK, and the USA.
Dr Sandra Romenska is a Senior Lecturer in leadership and leadership development at the University of St Andrews Business School in Scotland, UK. She also teaches Human Resource Management for the MBA programme of the American University in Bulgaria as a visiting academic. Dr Romenska has experience delivering leadership programmes to a wide range of national and international public and private organisations. She has been an invited speaker at many global forums, including the Project Management Institute Global Congress, the World Universities Forum at Davos, UNESCO, Fulbright. Dr Romenska has managerial experience in the non-government, public and charity sector after working with Save the Children-UK, and at various leadership posts in higher education institutions. She has an MA from the University of Warwick and a DPhil from the University of Oxford.