Donald H Taylor
Donald H Taylor is a veteran in the fields of learning and development and learning technologies, with experience at every level from design and delivery to chairman of the board; he has worked in learning and technology since the mid-1980s.
Donald has chaired the Learning Technologies Conference in London since 2000 and writes and speaks world-wide about Learning and Development (L&D). His annual L&D Global Sentiment Survey, started in 2014, provides a unique perspective on L&D trends from over 100 countries. From 2010 to 2021, he chaired the Learning and Performance Institute.
He chairs the Workforce Development board for VC firm Emerge Education, and advises several EdTech start-ups.
The author of Learning Technologies in the Workplace, Donald is a graduate of Oxford University and the recipient of an honorary doctorate from London’s Middlesex University.
Fiona Lennoxsmith
Fiona Lennoxsmith is Lead Consultant, Leadership, Organisational Development and Research at Advance HE, where she leads a team of senior consultants to design and facilitate innovative leadership interventions, programmes and thought leadership for the Higher Education sector. Fiona is currently a lead on Advance HE’s Leadership Framework design.
Fiona brings over 20 years of higher education experience at London Business School, and a passion for designing and delivering programmes and supporting the development of students and staff, from senior executives to recent graduates.
Fiona holds a BA (Hons) in English Literature from Anglia Ruskin University, and an MA in Literature, Representation and Modernity from London Metropolitan University. She holds a Postgraduate Diploma in Psychology from Open University and an MA in Consulting and Leading in Organisations: Psychodynamic and Systems approaches from the Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust. As a coach, Fiona has a Post-graduate Certificate in Executive Coaching awarded by Henley Business School and has ACC accreditation from the ICF.
Charles Knight
Charles is Assistant Director, Knowledge & Innovation; an academic leader with a proven track record of delivery in the areas of learning and teaching and enterprise. Prior to joining Advance HE, he was Associate Dean (Student Experience) at Salford Business School where he worked with colleagues to introduce a series of innovative practices including short technical qualifications, block teaching and an increased emphasis on the use of simulations and experimental learning. He was also involved in setting up a North-West Attainment Gap group to bring together business schools.
As an educator, he was nominated as ‘most innovative teacher in Higher Education’ at the 2016 THEAs and was nominated in Edge Hill University’s Student Teaching award each year between 2012-2019 and won three times. He has worked extensively with a range of universities at the strategic level to develop and rationale their portfolios.
While at Edge Hill University, he was a director of the ERDF funded Productivity and Innovation Centre. The centre worked with a range of organisations to develop new products, services and pricing models based on data driven insights.
Over the last ten years he has been involved in both ‘pure’ research projects and commercially funded work on a consultancy basis. He has undertaken a range of strategic consultancy projects for both higher education and commercial organisations around issues such as micro-qualifications, process re-engineering and portfolio review.
Charles has a PhD in information Systems from the University of Leeds where he was employed as a researcher by the AimTech Research Group. While at the Business School, He was involved in a range of projects around information management and the impact of innovative or disruptive technologies.
Professor Christina Hughes
Named as a “Woman of Influence 2023” in Baroness Sandy Verma’s annual list, Christina has executive leadership experience in both research and teaching intensive universities having been Pro-Vice Chancellor, University of Warwick, Provost, Sheffield Hallam University and Interim Deputy Vice-Chancellor at the University of Kent. She is also an internationally leading feminist educator and researcher with 20 books to her name with a £1.6m achievement in external research grant capture.
Christina established Women-Space Leadership in 2021 with its focus on working for equity in higher education. Throughout her career Christina has mentored and coached many women, and men, at all levels of university life. She holds ILM Level 7 qualification in Executive Coaching and Mentoring, is an accredited StrengthsProfile coach and a member of the Institute of Learning and Management.
Christina is a Visiting Professor at Coventry University and an Honorary Professor at the University of Kent. She is also an Honorary Fellow of the Warwick International Higher Education Academy which she established; a lifetime fellow of the Gender and Education Association in recognition of her role as inaugural chair; and external advisor for EDI for the Association of British Chinese Professors. Christina has also been a Governor at Leeds Beckett University; a Trustee for Villiers Park Educational Trust and a Trustee for the Royal Society of the Arts Academies.
Christina’s latest publications are:
· (2024) The Routledge International Handbook of Transdisciplinary Feminist Research and Methodological Praxis (with Jasmine Ulmer, Michelle Salazar Perez and Carol Taylor)
· (2022) International Perspectives of Leadership in Higher Education (with Alasdair Blair, Darrell Evans and Malcolm Tight).