Our senior advisors provide tailored, high-level guidance and practical support, grounded in a deep analysis of your unique ambitions, current context, and challenges. Central to our approach is a collaborative exchange with all stakeholders, fostering the creation of clear visions, inspiring strategies, and actionable implementation plans.
Our Partners
Robert Wagenaar, PhD
Founding Partner & Director
Preparing higher education institutions for the world of tomorrow applying multi-level stakeholders’ involvement strategies. Global leader in initiating and supervising large scale processes of curriculum innovation by interrelating academic, societal and workplace needs.
Mavi Calabrese
Founding Partner & CEO
Passionate, plurilingual and self-starting entrepreneur in the higher education sector on a global level who believes in cultural sensitiveness as a tool to communicate. Driven by the notion that education is the key for a better present.
Dedication and forty years of Higher Education and Research experience help develop strategies and to turn them into effective solutions with an emphasis on developing effective and sustainable fundraising strategies.
Founding Partner & Chair
Willem Wolters
Accomplished and motivated thought leader devising in-house and in-context socio-digital collaborative frameworks. Translates entrepreneurial capacities into purposeful facilitation in complexity.
Founding Partner
Toñi Caro, PhD
Designing innovative and open architectures for learning and employment through collaboration, proposal development, project implementation and monitoring accountability in complex networks.
Wesley Teter, PhD
Founding Partner
Guy Haug, PhD
Founding Partner
Proud to help universities to shape their future, with enough imagination to sketch innovative scenarios and enough hands-on experience to screen them for their feasibility.
Advising and supporting higher education institutions, European universities, research innovation ecosystems actors towards building today the education and research systems for a better present and future. For all citizens, in Europe and globally.
Daniela Trani, PhD
Founding Partner
Our
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We have chosen the gender-neutral name MAVERICKS because the term refers to ‘unconventional, independent-minded persons’. We believe that an open dialogue best supports our clients to identify and reach their ambitions.
The acronym stands for a series of notions that capture well our claim of ‘advancing higher education’. See the non-exhaustive list below. Suggestions are welcome.
Modernise, Mavericks, Mind, Manage, Moonshot, Mission, Momentum
Advance, Accelerate, Artificial (Intelligence), Ambition, Audacious, Ally
Vision, Virtual, Variation, Values
Education, Equity, Exchange, European, Energy, Engagement, Experts
Research, Renew, Revolutionise, Resilience, Regions, Relevance
Inspire, Innovate,International, Impact, Intelligence, Intercultural, Interdisciplinary, Ideas
Challenge, Change, Create, Connect, Collaborate, Cooperate, Competency
Knowledge, Keys
Share, Structure, Strategy, Science, Strength, Sustainable