The IC Global Partnership’s Consultants (The IC Global Fellows) have extensive knowledge and experience in the field of internationalisation and global engagement in the education sector. We understand the complex, shifting and multiple stakeholder environment that you operate in; that’s our business. But it’s only part of the story, read on to find out more about our passion and dedication.
Consultancy
What do we offer?
Our areas of expertise include
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> Business Development
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> Brand and Reputation
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> Change Management
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> Geographical Specialisation (countries and regions)
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> Governance
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> International Alumni Engagement
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> Legal
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> International Marketing and Communications
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> Operations
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> International Partnerships
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> Student Mobility
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> Student Recruitment
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> Research
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> Resource Planning
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> Transnational Education
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> International Strategy
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> Training – Coaching – Mentoring as a solution
Our Clients' Testimonials
Let´s work together
When looking for consultancy services, we know that you expect to work with an expert team whose advice, abilities and knowledge you will trust, who will truly understand your issues and needs, and provide best practice and innovative solutions, creative ideas and outstanding results. We can assure you that our IC Global Fellows (our consultants) provide and deliver on all of these and much more. What you may not know is what makes us unique and special and we’re keen to share this with you.
For Education Institutions
We are passionate
You will work with experts who have dedicated their professional lives to the education sector and are passionate about internationalisation and global engagement.
We are value driven
You will find that we care about you, your department, your area and your institution.
We’ve been there
Your challenges and opportunities are ones that we understand. Our consultants have all worked in the education sector for many years, in senior positions and influential roles, leading and delivering impactful results. We know how to listen, contribute and constructively challenge you.
We understand you
We have created a global community of higher education professionals from 62 different countries. Our UK institutional community members alone represent over 235,000 international students in the UK. We listen to our partners’ needs, share best practice, understand the critical issues of now and make global connections happen.
For Education Service Supporters
Your global experts and specialist hub
Our team of experts live, breathe and sometimes even dream of international education. We are committed, passionate and have years of experience in the education sector, in senior positions and influential roles. This includes marketing and communications expertise to help you position your brand and make an impact.
Your global access
We believe in working collaboratively and so by working with us, you will benefit from our large and growing global network of higher education institutions from over 62 different countries. Our UK institutional community members alone, represent over 304,650 international students in the UK. We have extensive international networks and partnerships developed over many years of working in the education sector and we understand your clients and your needs.
Understanding your world
As specialists who have worked in the education sector for many years, we understand the marketplace, the education landscape, your customers and your role within it. That’s because we’ve been there ourselves. Like you, we are passionate about working in internationalisation and global engagement.
Building your business
We believe that a partnership with us will help your business to thrive, whether it is product development, relationship retention or brand enhancement. This is because you will be working with a highly experienced team, with years of specialist knowledge and 100% passion. We love the work we do and proudly get results.
How do we work?
Our IC Global Fellows
A warm welcome from all of us, here at The IC Global Partnership. As an internationalisation and global engagement knowledge hub, we are able to provide you with the advice and expertise to meet all your consultancy needs.
Our IC Global Fellows are well placed to help you because they have either held senior positions in the higher education sector; played influential roles in sector-specific advisory and professional bodies and/or provided consultancy/training/audits within the sector. They have a strong reputation in the higher education sector and have extensive international networks that support the work commissioned. We look forward to meeting you.
Find out more about The IC Global Fellows by clicking on their photos below.
She has worked at Koç University for 8 years where she has led Erasmus+ strategic partnership projects on the use of internationalization data for decision making, digital transformation projects that included the use of CRM and online application and marketing monitoring systems, joint research partnership programs, and marketing and recruitment plans for joint Master degrees. She is a founder of the Internationalization of Turkish Research Universities group and contributes as a practitioner researcher to projects related to the role of international students at the national level. Originally from Venezuela, she graduated as an Urban Planner from Universidad Simon Bolivar, and was later a Chevening Scholar at the London School of Economics in the UK (MSc in Development and Environment Studies). Before working in international education, Melissa held sustainability, regeneration and community engagement and Development consulting roles in Spain and the UK.
As Director of upgrade: career coaching Gin engages with clients to unlock their true talent potential. This involves coaching sessions covering all aspects of career and personal development, career transition guidance, application/interview coaching and leadership development utilising psychometric tools.
Mike is a former governor and trustee at the Pinnacle Learning Trust in Oldham, and recently completed training as a reading buddy for the charity ReadeasyUK.
Professor Gregory has more than thirty years' experience as an academic and is a Professor of Comparative Sociology, specialising in gender equality and work-life balance. She has a strong senior leadership track record, most recently in the roles of Faculty Deputy Pro-Vice Chancellor, Faculty Head of International, Associate Dean International and Associate Head Marketing and Recruitment for multi-disciplinary academic units at Manchester Metropolitan University and the University of Salford. She is a Fellow of the Chartered Management Institute.
A linguist by background, Professor Gregory has particular experience of and passion for internationalisation. Skilled at working with diverse stakeholders across cultures and disciplines, she has developed and led internationalisation strategy at home and overseas, creating enterprising and impactful student-focussed and income generating activities globally, and notably in East and Southeast Asia and North America. She has been a Department of International Trade Export Champion and was awarded an MBE for services to export in November 2019.
Barbara is passionate about internationalisation and working with institutions locally and globally to enhance their offer. She has created many innovative strategies and approaches to encourage greater engagement in mobility opportunities and increase international student recruitment. She also has also led on the initiation development and ongoing management of many highly successful transnational higher education and joint-venture partnerships.
External bodies with which she has been involved include the UUK Outward Mobility Strategy Board and the SGroup European Universities' Network Executive Committee. She is currently Professor emerita at the University of Westminster and an honorary Fellow of Westminster International University in Tashkent (WIUT). She is also a vice chair of the governing body of Westminster Adult Education Service (WAES), in London. She remains actively involved with the SGroup Network, especially with regard to work on social mission in HE.
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 set up; a lifetime fellow of the Gender and Education Association in recognition of her role as inaugural co-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.
His earlier career involved 12 years as an academic at the University of Technology, Kingston, Jamaica and at the University of Surrey. He then spent 9 years in the professional service sector – latterly as an HR Director. Among other projects he was responsible for co-founding and directing for 13 years the (now) Advance HE ‘Top Management Programme (TMP)’. Building on this experience he recently, in 2021, co-authored, with Professor Robin Middlehurst ‘Leadership Transitions in Universities: Arriving, Surviving & Thriving at the Top’ (Routledge).
Tom is an Honorary Senior Fellow in the Melbourne Centre for the Study of Higher Education in the University of Melbourne and is also an IC Global Fellow.
Prior to this Judith held various strategic and internationally-focused senior roles within a number of institutions. Her former roles include Deputy Vice-Chancellor International at Middlesex University, Pro Vice-Chancellor External Affairs at the University of Derby, Director of International Strategy and Relations at the University of Birmingham, International Director at the University of Leeds, and Chair of the Board of Directors at NAVITAS UK. At these institutions she provided institutional leadership in internationalisation, marketing and student recruitment, partnership development, transnational education and online learning.
Judith is a Fellow of the HEA and has published widely within the fields of international education, change management, applied linguistics and transnational education.
After starting his career in agency and private sector MarComms, he worked in higher education leadership for 12 years before establishing Brand & Reputation (http://www.brandandreputation.org.uk/) – an award-winning national and international consultancy - in 2017.
As Executive Director at Durham and Teesside universities in the UK he was part of highly regarded University leadership teams and led multi award-winning external relations directorates covering brand and strategic marketing, communications, recruitment and admissions, development, and alumni relations. In these university leadership roles, Michael also chaired national and global networks with UUK, The Russell Group, University Alliance, and the PRCA.
He is a Laureate and former Global Trustee of CASE and a founding member of its European regional council – also serving as interim Global Vice President in 2021-22. He is a Fellow of both the Chartered Institute of Marketing and the RSA and his work has been recognised with a number of prestigious awards and thought leadership contributions worldwide.
Sue has significant expertise in alumni engagement and was responsible for the creation of the multi-award winning Corporate & Alumni Relations Teams at Rotterdam School of Management and Erasmus University in the Netherlands. Prior to that she developed
the strategy and built the teams responsible for the global alumni communities of the universities of Southampton & Reading.
Sue has significant experience of working within the UK government having spent many years working in a variety of roles within both the Home Office and Foreign & Commonwealth Office including service overseas in Nigeria, Cyprus, Ghana and Bratislava as a diplomat.
In addition to providing high quality consultancy and coaching, Sue is now putting her international and business experience to good use as the co-owner of Travel Lightly, a small business providing bespoke holidays to those who share her wander (wonder) lust!
Sirin is also a professionally trained career coach and since 2017, she has been providing coaching to international education leaders. The consultancy projects that Sirin has delivered typically include projects which require research and recommendations to meet ambitious targets. Sirin specialises in global engagement strategy, student recruitment, international education marketing, effective delivery and management of international partnerships, training and the building of internal capabilities, and always with a focus on internal buy-in for successful creation and delivery of strategies and plans.
She worked for 16 years at the University of Stirling, and as Head of International Affairs had responsibility for global partnerships and TNE, developing and implementing the University’s internationalisation strategy, managing study abroad/exchanges and short course provision (including English language, International Summer School and tailored programmes) and has considerable international and domestic recruitment experience across Asia and the US most notably. During this time she led on the set up of the INTO-Stirling University partnership managing the business planning and workstreams.
Stephanie has worked for the past 7 years as a higher education consultant with several universities, developing specific knowledge and expertise in new business development, market sizing and market research for new initiatives and programmes, global strategy and international partnership development, evidence-led reviews, identifying future opportunities and global trend analysis.
In her early career, Stephanie trained as a teacher and has worked in the school’s sector in the UK and overseas undertaking roles in Japan, New Zealand and the USA.
A key aspect of her work involves building and strengthening global partnerships, ensuring that institutions collaborate effectively to maximise the benefits of international education. Beverley’s work is driven by a passion for expanding access to transformative study abroad opportunities, fostering global partnerships, and promoting academic excellence. She is known for her ability to navigate the evolving landscape of higher education with insight and creativity, ensuring that institutions and students alike thrive in an increasingly interconnected world.
Gill’s work to date has been concentrated in Ireland, Africa, Europe, North America, ASEAN and China and includes a range of projects for governmental, NGO and multilateral agencies including UNICEF, World Bank, EU, IIE, MOPAN, the British Council, Irish Universities and several Irish government departments. Gill developed Ireland’s international education data reporting system and has represented Ireland on international education research panels and advisory committees.
In 2010 Gill established the Malawi Girls Education Fund, a successful registered charity supporting girls per year through secondary education in Malawi.
Justin's diverse portfolio includes significant projects such as leading the consultation team for the University of Cambridge's North West Cambridge campus, influencing changes in Shakespeare education with the Royal Shakespeare Company and assisting the London School of Economics in establishing communication Key Performance Indicators (KPIs). He has also contributed to improving business engagement at Nottingham Trent University, undertaking reputational tracking analysis for more than 30 HEIs globally and enhancing internal communications within various universities.
Justin has fellowships from the Association of Higher Education Professionals (AHEP) and the Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR). He is a Certified Member of the Institute of Internal Communications (IIC), a Member of URMA (the global body for promoting academic research) and a Member of the Public Relations Society of America’s Counsellors to Higher Education Group. Justin's own research covers reputation management, academic media performance and innovative research promotion strategies. Currently, he is engaged in a study on the status and function of communication within universities.
Dörte worked for 17 years at the University of Sheffield where she led on international partnership development, implemented the University’s Internationalisation Strategy, and managed student mobility schemes including the Erasmus+ programme, one of the most successful in the U.K. She also worked at the University of Bath and held several positions within public relations, marketing, and arts management.
Dörte studied at the University of Tübingen, Germany, and at Durham University.
Simon is passionate about Latin America and very much enjoys supporting educational institutions to achieve their objectives across Latin America.
Inés worked at the University of Southampton for 12 years, first in international student recruitment and then as Head of Strategic Marketing -leading the university's strategic marketing for all the faculties, the Malaysia campus and the university's art venues. In 2019 she moved to Barcelona to take on the role as Chief Advancement Officer at the Open University of Catalonia, where she was a member of the Board of Directors. She led a team of 200 people distributed across Spain and Latin America, and was directly responsible for the university's financial sustainability and growth through student recruitment and other income activities.
During her career, Inés has developed, led and implemented multiple growth, positioning, engagement and go-to-market strategies targeting B2B and B2C audiences internationally. Her expertise combines insight and direct experience from traditional, research-intensive institutions alongside online, more vocational universities in different countries.
Inés is a former member of the CASE Europe Council and has been a speaker at many global education events. She is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Marketing, Member of the Chartered Institute of Public Relations, has a MA from the University of Southampton, a Postgraduate in Marketing from the CIM and British Council, a BA from the University of Santiago de Compostela, is a graduate of the IESE business school in Barcelona, Spain and a scholar from the Anderson School of Management in UCLA, US.