Asheley Jones

Dr Asheley Jones is a highly autonomous, senior education executive with more than two decades’ experience in the education, technology, and professional service sectors. Her leadership is highly focused on developing sustainable business strategy and providing oversight of organisational change management through the development and deployment of professional credentialing initiatives.

Over the last five years, ultimately as COO of Deakin Digital, the commercial arm of Deakin University, Asheley has led in the design and implementation of several industry-verified, evidence-based employability skills capability frameworks, mapped to multiple global qualification frameworks.

She has successfully worked with multiple stakeholders in academia; state and federal governments; industry and not for profit sectors. Asheley Jones holds a Doctor of Business Administration from Victoria University (Australia) and is a registered expert of the Australian Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency (TEQSA) panel of experts. A Fellow of the Australian Computer Society (ACS), she currently heads the Education, Accreditation and Micro Credential portfolio for the Australian Council of Professions (ACoP), a peak body representing over 1,000,000 professionals.

Asheley’s recent research projects have focused on identifying collaborative work readiness programs for professional and educational bodies. She has obtained research grants from Department of Education, Victoria; Google; the Australian Council of Deans ICT (ACDICT) and the Joint Accounting Bodies (JAB).