Dr Bennett is an experienced senior academic manager with 19 years Higher Education leadership development experience.  Teaching and business development activities include external funding, academic contract and bid preparation, income generation, curriculum design and delivery and senior management development.

His role as an Education Consultant includes bid and contract writing, consultancy, short course executive programme teaching, organisational development, strategic marketing, leadership development and on-line/blended learning course design and facilitation. 

In addition to income generation experience gained as Associate Dean in the Faculty of Education, Anglia Ruskin University, he has set up and managed Higher Education funded projects, change management programmes in the public sector, and has an established academic reputation in external examinership for a number of university business schools. 

Dr Bennett works with Government bodies such as the Training and Development Agency for Schools (TDA), National College for Leadership of Schools and Children’s Services (NCSL), Children’s Workforce Development Council (CWDC), and Higher Education Academy (HEA) in the design and delivery of funded research projects.

Currently he works as a consultant tutor for NCSL with the Diploma of School Business Management (DSBM), and as an External Partnership Consultant for Ashcroft International Business School, Anglia Ruskin University.