Areas of Interest
Authentic Leadership
Purpose, heart, integrity, and relationships form the core of good leadership. I believe in empowering teams and building trust that our successes and good failures represent opportunities to learn as we solve wicked problems for our students, our communities, and ourselves. Putting in the hard work alongside colleagues and teams through boring, persistent efforts to ensure access, completion, and success is effective, meaningful, and a force-multiplier that yields enduring results while responsibly stewarding tax and tuition dollars.
Data Science
Long-term, incremental, and sustainable gains are achievable by taking an honest look at data. Using R, SQL, and secure clouds, it is possible to release near-time visualisations across an organisation, so every partner understands the past, present, and future of key performance indicators. On-message, team cohesion is vital to tap combined creativity and work-product, and good data science supports an information rich environment.
Aspirations
With a strong background in developing and implementing organisational excellence and strategic quality, meaningful opportunities to shepherd effective operational enhancements are welcome. For the short-term this includes working on multidisciplinary groups while long-term goals include serving on upper leadership teams supporting broad organisational success efforts.
Recent Work
Brief Bio
Matt Wiley leads institutional effectiveness and learning technologies at Victoria College, facilitating comprehensive planning, data-informed decision making, and state/accreditation/federal reporting. As a tenured, associate professor of mathematics, he won awards in both mathematics education and student engagement. Matt holds degrees in educational leadership, computer science, business, and pure mathematics from the University of California and Texas A&M University systems.
Outside academia, he has co-authored three books about the popular R programming language and was managing partner of a statistical consultancy for almost a decade. His programming experience is with R, SQL, C++, Ruby, Fortran, JavaScript, and HTML.
A programmer, a published author, a mathematician, and authentic leader, Matt has always melded his passion for writing with his joy of logical problem solving and data science. From the boardroom to the classroom, he enjoys finding dynamic ways to partner with cross-functional teams and community stakeholders to make complex ideas and projects understandable and solvable.