HIGHER EDUCATION ADVISOR

  • CEO

  • INDEPENDENT DIRECTOR

  • CHAIR, ACADEMIC BOARD

  • LEADERSHIP MENTOR AND COACH

ADVISORY SERVICES

Professor Emeritus Clive Smallman provides a range of advisory services, building on 30 years in higher education and 40 years working with founders and leaders in businesses of all types and sizes:

  • Independent non-executive director.

  • Board of Directors Chair.

  • Academic Board Chair.

  • Corporate and academic governance reviews.

  • Board skills training, including cybersecurity.

  • Executive leadership and board mentoring and coaching.

  • Strategy workshop facilitation, focusing on business model generation and growth.

  • Risk management workshop facilitation.

  • Management of generative artificial intelligence in learning and teaching.

  • Initial registration and accreditation advice.

  • Renewal of registration and accreditation advice.

  • Administrative Appeals Tribunal expert opinion.

  • Course and subject design and development.

AN EXPERIENCED HIGHER EDUCATION ADVISOR AND EXECUTIVE

Professor Emeritus Clive Smallman PhD CITP FBCS GAICD is a highly experienced higher education executive and independent director. With 30 years in higher education research and teaching and 40 years in businesses of all types and sizes, from 2011 on, Clive has held a series of senior executive, non-executive and advisory roles in higher education:

  • Two substantial international higher education projects.

  • 20+ advisory projects on higher education registration and accreditation (initial and renewal), governance and doctoral research reviews.

  • Expert testimony to the Administrative Appeals Tribunal for three higher education clients.

  • Presently

    • CEO, Kingsford Institute of Higher Education (registration and accreditation applications in preparation).

    • Independent Director and Chair, Academic Board, ASTRA Institute of Higher Education (registered and accredited September 2023).

    • Independent Director and Chair, Academic Board, Skyline Higher Education Australia (registered and accredited September 2023).

  • Formerly Interim Dean, ECA College of Health Sciences.

  • Formerly Dean, Higher Education Leadership Institute.

    • Implemented the Graduate Certificate in Higher Education Academic Practice.

    • Designed and implemented the accredited Master of eLearning.

    • Designed the accredited Master of Research.

  • Restructured and turned around Asia Pacific International College, setting the foundation for successful renewal of registration and accreditation.

  • Formerly Assistant Vice Chancellor (Strategy and Policy), Western Sydney University.

  • Restructured Western Sydney University Business School as its inaugural Dean and initiated the process of AACSB accreditation.

Interested in any of Clive’s Higher Education advisory services?