(DLitt et Phil) taught English at Christ’s Hospital, England for 1 year.
He then pursued careers at four universities as a lecturer, administrator, senior manager, and then 20 years as a university executive director in the capacity of University Registrar at two of those institutions.
For some seventeen years he served as an elected member of the Senate Teaching and Learning Committee. Particularly notable were his roles as the cofounder of the significant International Education Association of South Africa in 1997, and a few years later both inspiring and driving the re-creation of the national university Registrars Imbizo (Forum).
After his second retirement, he served as CEO of the FEDSAS Institute of School Governance for 5 years. Since he retired for the third time, he has continued his role as a Higher Education Executive Consultant, stretching currently for 23 years before and after retirements.
In the past ten years he has completed some forty consultancy projects for 18 public and private universities and colleges. He has wide experience in governance, management, leadership, training and strategic planning at both public and private universities, NGOs, schools and public and private boards of directors and councils, in RSA, southern Africa and internationally. He has served as an advisor, facilitator, trainer and consultant in myriad HE capacities including 10 years on two Boards of Directors in the US.
He has contributed to some 10 published books and several other articles in journals, presented key note and other papers at international and local conferences, and earlier in his career produced 15 adult leader training manuals for Scouts South Africa.
In recent years he was a key author for FEDSAS in 2 editions of its joint seminal publication with the IoDSA entitled Governance in Public Schools – A guide to the application of the King Principles in Public Schools, (2016, 2019 based on King III and King IVTM respectively).
Over the years he has made short study visits to over 120 universities, in many of the 56 countries he has visited, thus gaining international insights about Higher Education, its governance, academic enterprise, strategies, and senior and executive management.