Profile for Dr. Barrie Kennard
Barrie is the Academic Standards and Quality Manager for Leadership and Management Wales, the Welsh Assembly Government funded Centre of Excellence for Leadership and Management Skills in Wales. His role is to develop a quality framework for leadership and management development programmes within Wales and the production of a directory of deliverers in Wales.
He co-authored the HEFCW report on Higher Level Skills Development in Wales and regularly produces articles for the Western Mail. Recently he has delivered several addresses including a key note speech at the University Vocational Awards Council Annual Conference in York and a series of workshops at the National Training Federation Wales Conference in Newport. In 2009 he wrote a Masters and Foundation Degree in Applied Professional Practice for the University of Wales Institute Cardiff. He is the external assessor for an MSC in Leadership Capability at the Scottish Centre of Work based Learning in Glasgow Caledonian University.
Barrie has designed and is delivering the current Foundation Programme for Knowledge Transfer Professionals. He has spoken on workforce development at conferences in the UK, China and Zambia. He has worked in Uganda and Pakistan on British Council capacity building programmes and has delivered management development programmes to staff at Makerere University in Kampala and the Government College of Home Economics in Lahore. He also delivered Lectures on Management Communication at South West Normal University, PR China. He has recently co – written an article with Paul Kearns on Quality and Evaluation for Training Zone magazine.
He entered academia in 1998 after a career in Training and Development in the private sector as head of training for the Western Mail & Echo Group and in the voluntary sector with CSV Wales. He was the Lead Trainer on the National Mentoring Pilot Programme for DfES and on the Aim Higher National Mentoring Scheme. His doctoral research was into Modern Apprenticeships and he retains an interest in workbased learning and workforce development. As a late returner to learning, he received his first degree when he was 46 and retains an affinity for those engaged in learning from non traditional demographics. He is also a member of the Institute of Knowledge Transfer.
