Rumyana is the Chairperson of Know and Can Association, Bulgaria. She has over 30 years’ experience as a teacher and trainer in formal and non-formal education. Rumyana has two Master Degrees – in Chemical engineering and Pedagogy. She is a certified trainer in soft skills, creative thinking and Forum Theater. She has attended numerous educational…
Dr. Julie Furst-Bowe is the Academic Vice-President for Arkansas Tech University in Russellville. Previously, she was the academic vice president at Chippewa Valley Technical College, a college in the Wisconsin Technical College System (USA) that serves approximately 20,000 students per year. She has been a senior leader in higher education for more than 20 years,…
Dr. Simona L. Brickers is an intuitive Leadership Development Consultant and Process Designer who innovates within constraints; an expert Business Strategist Project Manager that reframes organizational paradigm shifts to maximize leadership proficiencies; and an AntiRacism Practitioner that reconstructs policies, practices, and protocols to enhance the culture and team-building dynamics to build sustainable collaborations that produce…
Dr R. Lance Hogan is a Professor in the Lumpkin College of Business & Applied Sciences at Eastern Illinois University. He is a driven university educator who is committed to a scholar-practitioner career track, serving industry workforce development needs while simultaneously teaching their craft and exposing students to their first-hand experiences. Together with his colleague,…
Dr Luke Steinke is a Professor in the Lumpkin College of Business & Applied Sciences at Eastern Illinois University. He is a driven university educator who is committed to a scholar-practitioner career track, serving industry workforce development needs while simultaneously teaching their craft and exposing students to their first-hand experiences. Together with his colleague, Dr…
My name is Kirsten Cuppen and I’m a teacher from The Netherlands. I started teaching when I was 22 years old at a primary school. After 6 years, I switched jobs and began to work at a high school and 2 years later, I started working at a higher vocational education. My students were studying…
Kat is a Senior Education and Policy Researcher at the Edge Foundation. At Edge, Kat’s main areas of research are in higher education, vocational education, skills shortages and employability skills. At Edge she runs the Innovative HE Network, bringing together UK and international universities, and key sector bodies. Her current projects including Degree Apprenticeships in England and…
Andrea is Head of Research at the Edge Foundation and an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Oxford Department of Education. Andrea has over 20 years of research experience and worked for Oxford and Warwick universities before she moved to Edge. Her areas of research interests include TVET, apprenticeships, work-based learning, employability and skills…
I am Peter Van Iseghem and work as an educational advisor at Catholic Education Flanders. My main focus is on leadership and leadership development. I am a member of the staff group that organises the training for novice school leaders in Flanders. I teach personal leadership there in the three training years. I also support school leaders and…
Urs Hauenstein serves as Visiting Professor of Management and Education for the Future of the Lincoln International Business School, University of Lincoln and as a Distinguished Visiting Professor in different Colleges / Universities in (Eastern) Europe and UK. Agora University in Oradea, Romania honoured him as Prof h.c. for Internationalisation. Urs is as well the…