Team

Roy has more than 40 years’ experience in higher education. He advises and mentors educators and academic leaders globally, providing boards, administrators, and faculty members with governance training, strategic planning, academic & organizational cultural development, professional development, and institutional assessment.

He has assisted numerous new Christian colleges and universities across the USA and abroad organize their boards, refine their mission and vision, design their curricula, write their academic, faculty, and student policies, advise on fundraising and institutional assessment, and guide them in their pursuit of accreditation.

He was the founding President of New Saint Andrews College, Moscow, Idaho, USA, and a Vice Rector and Distinguished Professor at Nehemiah Gateway University in Albania, southeast Europe. He has taught at Uganda Christian University and assisted Evangelia University in California with its academic affairs and accreditation self-study. He was a professor at the University of Idaho from 1984 to 2000, where he served as the Director of the School of Communication and a member of the Graduate Faculty. He was elected to the University of Idaho's Faculty Council and served as Vice Chair of the Council. He was twice selected as a Senior U.S. Fulbright Teaching and Research Scholar, first to Warsaw University's Institute of Journalism, Poland (1991), and to the Communication Research Center at North West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa (1998). He has been a visiting International Development and Training (IDAT) Professor at Egerton University in Njoro, Kenya, East Africa (1992). He was twice elected as an Accreditation Commissioner with the Transnational Association of Christian Colleges and Schools. He has served on multiple governing and advisory boards, from the American Journalism Historians Association to Theopolis Institute (Birmingham, Alabama) to the Academic Advisory Board of the Classic Learning Initiatives (Annapolis, Maryland; providers of the Classic Learning Test [CLT]). His scholarship in media history and culture has been honored twice with national research awards by the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication. The International Conference on Teaching and Learning honored Dr. Atwood for his "Outstanding Contributions to Higher Education" at its 2017 meeting at Fan S. Noli University, Korce, Albania.

Roy holds a Ph.D. in Mass Communication from the University of Iowa, USA, an M.A. in Religion from Westminster Theological Seminary, Pennsylvania, USA, a B.A. in Philosophy from Dordt University, Iowa, USA. He and wife Beverlee have been married 48 years and blessed with two children and 12 grandchildren.

Carl's 35 years of experience on more than a dozen higher education, civic, and ecclesiastical boards combined with a decade and a half of successful college presidential leadership provides a foundation his commitment to coaching and consulting by those "who have been there". Particular areas of focus are leadership and organizational coaching, mission effectiveness assessment, consulting to organizations in leadership transition, strategic and operational planning, and crisis management. Over the years he has provided formal mentoring relationships to not for profit (especially educational and ecclesiastical) leaders and led workshops in higher education principles and practices on 5 continents. Professional appointments include 16 years as President of Dordt College (IA) as well as previous positions as Senior Pastor in both the Chicago metropolitan area and in Northwest Iowa as well as a teaching appointment at Calvin Theological Seminary (MI). He has served as Executive Director of the Association of Reformed Colleges and Universities in addition to being the founder of The SquareInch Consulting Group, LLC. Educational leadership posts have included membership on the Secretariat of the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities as well as the Executives in Church Related Higher Education. He has organized and coordinated Global Summits of Presidents of Reformed Colleges and Universities held in Paris, Oxford, and the Netherlands. Civic Service includes terms as Chair of the Council of Christian Colleges and Universities, the Iowa Association of Independent Colleges and Universities, the Iowa Association of College Presidents, and the Iowa Campus Compact. He has been a trustee of Calvin College, Dordt College, and Calvin Theological Seminary and has been a member of the board of directors for Iowans for a Better Future, the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities, the Barnabas Foundation, the Iowa College Foundation, Christian Reformed World Missions Board and the Christian Reformed World Ministries Board. Most recently he has served as Interim President of Kuyper College in Grand Rapids, Michigan from January to October of 2017. Currently he serves as vice chair of the Board of Directors of Bethesda Christian Counseling Services and is a member of the Charter Revision Commission for the City of Sioux Falls. Carl's educational background includes a B.A. in Philosophy from Calvin College (MI), an M.Div. with an emphasis on Philosophical Theology from Calvin Theological Seminary (MI), and a Ph.D. in Theology and Communication from Princeton Theological Seminary (NJ).

Rod is a certified Berkman Test administrator and analyst and the Principal of Corporate Resources, LLC. He has been the Vice President of Human Capital for Economic Modeling Specialists, Inc., in Idaho, the President and COO of the Bomgar (now Beyond Trust) Corporation, a computer security company in Georgia, and VP of Marsh, an insurance and risk management firm in New York. Rod is a graduate of Louisiana State University in industrial technology.