Eight stages where programmes are made or lost

The challenge

Prospective participants form a view of a programme long before they arrive. What they see has to be specific enough to be believed: what they will actually decide, produce and be challenged on. Generic promises do not survive a good prospect's questions.

What Roger brings

• Taught and directed programmes across the UK and Asia, and knows what prospective participants from different regions ask before committing
• Developed international programme promotion, recruitment and engagement activity
• Designed programmes whose real participant experience can be described in detail, not implied

How Roger can help

• Review or rewrite programme pages and briefing material so they describe the real experience
• Advise on international engagement and recruitment messaging
• Design taster sessions and briefing events that show the method rather than describe it

The challenge

Induction is where expectations are set. Participants arriving from industry need clarity about workload, assessment standards, group working and what good work looks like. Weak induction produces avoidable problems weeks later, when they are expensive to fix.

What Roger brings

• Inducted MBA, EMBA and professional cohorts at universities in the UK, Hong Kong and Thailand
• Worked on faculty expectations, student-success and progression planning
• Supported AI-use policy and evidence trails for partner-university delivery

How Roger can help

• Design or strengthen induction sessions and participant handbooks
• Set out assessment expectations and standards in writing participants actually read
• Build AI-use expectations into induction from the first day

The challenge

Teaching that transmits frameworks but not judgement leaves participants able to recite, not decide. The alternative is demanding to design well: participants must decide, apply, debate and account for their reasoning while the programme still has time to correct course.

What Roger brings

• 25 years of postgraduate and executive teaching across the UK and Asia, with teaching awards at Liverpool (2007) and HKUST (2015, 2016)
• Recent evaluation scores of 99.83% for Scenario Planning and Trend Analysis and 97.63% for Responsible and Sustainable Management Decision-Making at AIT School of Management, June 2026
• Established expertise in ESG, sustainability, ethics and responsible leadership, strategy, scenario planning, decision-making and sports business

How Roger can help

• Design and deliver MBA, EMBA, professional masters and executive modules
• Build experiential components, including simulations and live cases
• Provide detailed, individual feedback aimed at reasoning quality

The challenge

Programmes need someone accountable across curriculum, faculty, quality assurance, budgets, partnerships and the participant experience at the same time. Teaching quality and programme quality are not the same thing.

What Roger brings

• Dean of the School of Management, then Vice President, at the Asian Institute of Technology (2019 to 2024), leading a multi-campus business school across Thailand and Vietnam
• MBA Programme Director at the University of Liverpool (2005 to 2010) and BA International Business Programme Director (2002 to 2005)
• Interim MBA Director at HKUST Business School (2012 to 13); chaired academic governance and oversaw quality assurance, accreditation and regulatory requirements

How Roger can help

• Act as programme director or external programme lead
• Review or strengthen programme governance, quality assurance and accreditation readiness
• Support launch planning for new programmes across countries

The challenge

Curricula age quietly. ESG expectations shift, AI changes what participants should learn and how they should be assessed, and employers move faster than approval cycles. Renewal has to be more than a new module title.

What Roger brings

• Programme design and renewal across ESG, sustainability, ethics, strategy, scenario planning, leadership and sports business, including assessment innovation
• Advisory work with AITSPIN, AIT's professional postgraduate school for the AI era
• Developing insight into the application of AI in higher education, especially at the interface of industry, business, AI and education, supported by a PG Certificate in the Use of AI in Higher Education currently underway

How Roger can help

• Design new modules or renew existing provision against current practice
• Rethink assessment so it holds up when participants have AI tools available
• Connect curriculum to employers, professional bodies and live industry questions

The challenge

Dissertations and capstone projects are where postgraduate learning consolidates or collapses. Supervision capacity is scarce, quality varies, and the final months are the most visible to external examiners and reviewers.

What Roger brings

• Experienced doctoral supervisor and examiner, with attention to methodology, conceptual clarity, evidence, analysis, reflexivity and presentation
• Supervised MBA, EMBA and professional masters projects alongside senior leadership roles
• Mentored early-career academics and programme teams

How Roger can help

• Supervise dissertations, theses and capstone projects
• Examine at doctoral and masters level
• Mentor faculty who are new to supervision

The challenge

The final stage of a programme is the most scrutinised: assessment integrity, progression decisions, award classification and participants stepping into new roles. Problems surface here that were avoidable earlier.

What Roger brings

• Student-success and progression planning, faculty expectations and evidence trails for audit-ready delivery
• Oversaw quality assurance, accreditation and regulatory requirements for a multi-campus business school
• Assessment design that holds up when AI tools are available to participants

How Roger can help

• Review assessment, progression and award processes
• Prepare programmes for external review, audit or accreditation
• Advise on AI-use policy for final-stage assessment

The challenge

Alumni relationships decay into newsletters unless something real keeps graduates connected: practice, people and reasons to return. The most useful alumni engagement also gives current participants access to people who have used the learning.

What Roger brings

• Built extensive links with employers, alumni, professional bodies and external organisations across the UK and Asia
• Continued engagement with former participants from Liverpool, HKUST, CUHK and AIT cohorts

How Roger can help

• Advise on alumni engagement design for management programmes
• Develop employer and professional-body links that feed back into the programme
• Design alumni sessions and guest formats that serve current cohorts