Stephen Holmes

B.Ed, M.Ed, MBA, PhD Managing Partner, The Knowledge Partnership s.holmes@theknowledgepartnership.com

“Stephen Holmes has credentials that place him at the vanguard of modern educational management. His scholarly expertise in processes of educational marketing is unique and his practical, entrepreneurial talent is similarly outstanding”. Professor Frank Crowther, Executive Dean of Education, Pro Vice-Chancellor, University of Southern Queensland (Retired 2008), Listed among Australia’s 100 most influential people (2005).

Stephen is one of 3 founding partners of The Knowledge Partnership, a specialist strategy, marketing and communications research based consultancy providing research, strategic and focused support and intelligence for educational organisations operating in Australia, New Zealand, and the UK (www.theknowledgepartnership.com)

With an extensive background in teaching, school and university senior management, Stephen’s current client list includes schools, colleges and universities in every Australian state, New Zealand, the UK and Canada. He has published, consulted and spoken around the western world for schools, colleges and universities on education marketing and reputation management for the education sector at the highest levels for over a decade.

Stephen is the only full time practicing consultant in the world with a PhD in the specific field of marketing education. He is an acknowledged pioneer, authority and visionary thinker on education marketing. Stephen’s academic partnerships have included being visiting specialist in education marketing at The University of Queensland and the University of Southern Queensland in Australia, including development and delivery of higher degree courses in education marketing for students worldwide. He also has written widely for CREM, The Centre for Research in Education Marketing, based at The University of Southampton in the UK. Stephen is also the author of ‘The School Marketing Manual’, the best selling school marketing reference.

He is a Director of the MaXimizE (Marketing Excellence in Education) benchmarking and evaluation project adopted by almost 100 universities nationally and internationally.