Leanne Cover has resigned as the chief executive of the Canberra Institute of Technology, after spending the last two years on paid leave.Canberra Institute of Technology chief executive Leanne Cover has resigned two years after the details of a lucrative series of consulting contracts were made public.
the ABC revealed CIT had commissioned millions of dollars in leadership advice from two businesses owned by Patrick Hollingworth, who describes himself as a "complexity and systems thinker". The largest of those contracts was worth $5 million, and was signed with Think Garden in March of 2022.In 2018 and 2021, CIT awarded Mr Hollingworth's Redrouge Nominees Pty Ltd, contracts for $1.22 million and $512,000 respectively.
"I have reviewed the tender documentation and contract for this procurement and am unable to determine the specific work to be delivered through it, based on the use of jargon and an ill-defined statement of requirements," Mr Steel said. "The first complaint pertaining to the matters being investigated under Operation LUNA was received by the commission in late November 2021," the commission said in a statement to the ABC.