Executive education · Academic advisory
I am an international academic leader, executive educator and programme developer with 25 years of experience across the UK and Asia. I have worked within institutions rather than only alongside them: leading a multi-campus business school as Dean and then Vice President at the Asian Institute of Technology, directing MBA provision at the University of Liverpool and HKUST Business School, and teaching participants directly on MBA, EMBA, postgraduate and executive programmes.
That breadth covers the full learning journey: engaging prospective participants, inducting cohorts, designing and directing programmes, teaching, supervising dissertations and sustaining alumni relationships. I also review management programmes, departments and business schools externally, drawing on academic quality assurance work with transnational higher-education providers. My subject areas are ESG and sustainability, ethics and responsible leadership, strategy, scenario planning, decision-making and sports business, taught so that participants decide, apply and debate rather than simply listen. A rapidly developing strand of my work is the application of AI to higher education, particularly at the interface of industry, business, AI and education.
Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok
Areas of work
MBA, EMBA, postgraduate and executive teaching built around decisions, simulations and applied work rather than lecture delivery.
Read moreProgramme design and renewal, academic quality assurance, accreditation readiness and international partnership development.
Read moreScenario planning, sustainability, ethics and responsible decision-making taught for practising managers and professional cohorts.
Read moreTwo decades of sport-business teaching and research, and the simulation-led formats that grew out of it.
Read more25 years
Teaching and academic leadership across the UK and Asia
Dean & VP
Former Dean of School of Management, then Vice President, AIT
3 awards
Teaching awards at Liverpool (2007) and HKUST (2015, 2016)
2,500+
Google Scholar citations recorded in prior CV
The Learning Journey
Programmes succeed or fail across eight stages, and institutions rarely have every stage fully covered. Roger works with universities, business schools and organisations across this whole journey, as teacher, programme director, reviewer or adviser depending on what is needed.
08 leads back to 01 · a continuous lifecycle
Stage 01 of 08
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Stage 01 of 08
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08 leads back to 01 · a continuous lifecycle
Teaching philosophy
Roger’s teaching is built on experiential learning. Participants are not asked to absorb frameworks and reproduce them; they are asked to make decisions with incomplete information, apply concepts to their own organisations, debate genuine dilemmas, and account for their reasoning afterwards.
That means simulations, live cases, wind-tunnel workshops, structured peer challenge and written argument, with feedback aimed at the quality of the reasoning rather than the neatness of the answer. The Management Game / CEO Simulation is the clearest expression of this approach.
“His teaching style was structured, practical, and encouraged us to challenge our assumptions rather than simply look for the ‘right’ answer.”
Programme portfolio
Strategy & Foresight
A structured foresight programme in which participants build, test and stress-test scenarios for their own organisation rather than analysing someone else's.
Programme detailExperiential Learning
An intensive decision simulation in which teams take the senior executive role, make interdependent decisions under time pressure, and defend them in a board-style setting. It runs in two distinct versions: a football-industry format, and a non-football format set in real Asian companies delivered with Arcus Education.
Programme detailResponsible Business
ESG and sustainability taught for practising managers: what the frameworks require, where they are still evolving, and how to act on them credibly.
Programme detailResponsible Business
A programme on ethical judgement in organisational life: real dilemmas, competing obligations, and decisions that must be explained afterwards.
Programme detailStrategy & Foresight
A practical programme on how managers actually decide: evidence, bias, group dynamics, and accountability for the choice made.
Programme detailCustom Programmes
Custom design and delivery of executive and professional education for universities, business schools and organisations.
Programme detailCurrent engagement
Roger serves as an International Advisor to AITSPIN and contributes to its professional-education activities. AITSPIN is AIT’s professional postgraduate school for the AI era, combining domain expertise, human judgement, ethical responsibility, innovation and AI capability.
Roger has a long-standing association with AIT School of Management, including previous senior leadership roles and current teaching and programme activity across ESG, ethics, responsible leadership, executive education and professional programme development.
Recommendations
“His teaching style was structured, practical, and encouraged us to challenge our assumptions rather than simply look for the “right” answer. This mindset is something I will continue to apply in my professional career.”
“The use of real-world cases and the feedback we received made the ethics content usable rather than abstract.”
Describes Roger's guidance on strategic management as practical and directly applicable at work, and credits him with strengthening their analytical approach.
Highlights his mentoring and support during postgraduate study, and his willingness to make time for students.
Notes a humane, people-centred style of academic leadership alongside clear academic standards.
Credits his mentoring and encouragement during graduate study and early career development.
Items marked quoted verbatim are taken word-for-word from documented course-evaluation reports. Items marked summary of a recommendation summarise published LinkedIn recommendations rather than quoting them; the full wording is available on Roger’s LinkedIn profile and can be substituted verbatim once approved by each recommender.
Enquiries are welcome from universities, business schools, professional bodies and organisations commissioning executive education.