It motivates them to stretch their wings and seek greater rewards. Her skill in developing systems and process solutions has helped overworked teams become happier and more effective.
Her genuine skill as a collaborator and her quiet confidence hint at her strengths in project management. Elyse is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP), confirming her expertise in motivating people and teams through all phases of a successful project.
Elyse is also experienced in fostering student engagement, wellness and retention, and in helping clients enhance their international partnership strategies. Student success is her number one priority, informing a long series of highly successful marketing and communications programs for clients.
She puts her money where her mouth is, having founded a non-profit organisation focused on supporting international students with housing services, employment opportunities and building community connections.
Talk to me about
- Student success and retention
- Marketing
- Partnerships
- Process and systems optimisation
Major projects
- Created a transnational education risk and suitability framework and feasibility study for vetting and securing international partners.
- Re-engineered an institution’s recruitment, in-country staffing and agent management strategy.
- Audited Canada’s best practices for Agent Management and Ethics.
- Devised a success pathway for international and national awards for Canadian university research laureates at all stages of their careers.
Before Edified
Elyse has run her own consulting company, working with institutions, government, and EdTech providers to enhance all stages of the student journey. She’s worked as a research assistant at Simon Fraser University, and at Mohawk College, overseeing international services teams, and leading international partnerships and the study abroad facility. She has also founded a roundtable that works with service providers, local municipal and national student charities to support international student success and wellbeing in Canada.
After hours
Elyse is a collector, not of objects, but of experiences. She camps far from the well-trodden path. She seeks out remote beaches on every continent, and she’s drawn like a moth to a flame to hole-in-the-wall coffee shops from Tokyo to São Paulo. Never sitting still makes her very hungry. Elyse relishes the chance to make connections through food and the experiences associated with it. She enjoys learning about growing vegetables, exploring night markets in every corner of the world, and hosting elaborate dinner parties with family and friends.