founder & ceo

Dr. Clyde Barnett III is the founder and exectuive director of DWB Consulting. Dr. Barnett's research focuses on investigating the possibilities of and barriers to advising through a transformative leadership lens in P-20 education spaces. This investigation occurs through the collection, exploration, and analysis of community voices in both K-12 schools and higher education institutions to inform advising, policy, and practice. From his research, Dr. Barnett developed the transformative advising model, which leverages tenants of transformative leadership, intrusive advising, and critical self-reflection to guide advisors on how to question systemic norms to effect change and become advocates for students shaping more equitable campus environments. Dr. Barnett has an extensive history of advising student groups and organizations where he assumed the task of developing discerning, inclusive, and transformative student leaders. 

Education

Dr. Barnett holds a PhD in educational leadership, EdS in educational leadership, MA in higher education, and cerrtificate in academic advising from Eastern Michigan University. He also holds a BBA in marketing from the University of Michigan-Flint.  

Certifications

Mixed Methods Research Certificate 

University of Michigan-Ann Arbor 

Culturally Sustaining Teaching Certificate 

University of North Carolina at Charlotte 

Racializing Research Agendas Certificate

University of Pennsylvania