Heather Lander
Manager at VARK Learn Limited
Heather Lander has been involved with VARK for much of its history. She first encountered VARK as a student in its early days and later met VARK founder Neil Fleming while working in the Teaching and Learning Services department at Lincoln University. Heather created the first online version of the VARK Questionnaire and has continued working with VARK ever since. Today, she manages day-to-day customer enquiries, writes content for the website and newsletter, and oversees the ongoing review and improvement of VARK resources to ensure they remain useful, relevant, and accessible for learners, educators, and organisations around the world.
Carol Cadigan
Director at VARK Learn Limited
Neil D. Fleming
Designer of the original VARK questionnaire and associated resources.
Neil Fleming was a learner and a teacher. His main research interest was in how people learn and how they use their modality preferences in their communication. His full-time teaching was divided between secondary, teacher education, and university (Lincoln University, New Zealand), with ample recognition of his teaching and research prowess in those three sectors. For over twenty years, he facilitated active workshops on a variety of topics in North America, Asia, and Europe, traveling there in spring and fall. He was the main author of the VARK books available online on this website. He was in demand for work with customer service applications of the VARK principles in business educational environments. He also worked with elite sports coaches on a learning-styles approach to coaching individuals and teams.
We are deeply saddened to announce Neil’s death. He died on June 16, 2022, suddenly at his home in Christchurch, New Zealand, aged 82 years old. The team at VARK has lost a great leader, teacher, and mentor. Neil lived his life to the end with great empathy, integrity, generosity, and humor, and will be sadly missed by many.
Charles C. Bonwell
Co-Author of How Do I Learn Best? and contributor to VARK’s development.
Charles C. Bonwell directed the Centers for Teaching and Learning at the Saint Louis College of Pharmacy (1993-1998) and Southeast Missouri State University (1990-1993). As an instructional consultant, he has facilitated over 200 workshops nationally and internationally for faculty and teaching assistants on active learning and critical thinking and has given keynote addresses at numerous regional, national, and international conferences. He is co-author of the best-selling ASHE-ERIC monograph Active Learning: Creating Excitement in the Classroom (1991).
