Prof. Smile Dzisi is a renowned academic with over twenty-five years of rich experience and expertise in teaching, educational leadership, organizational re-engineering and gender advocacy. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Social Sciences from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana; a Master of Public Administration degree from University of Ghana, Legon, Ghana; and a PhD in Entrepreneurship and Innovation from Swinburne University of Technology, Australia, where she received an award for the most distinguished Ph.D. thesis.

Prof. Smile Dzisi was the former Vice-Chancellor/Rector of Koforidua Technical University, Koforidua, Ghana. She was the first female to be appointed a Rector of a Polytechnic in Ghana. She ably led the transition of her Polytechnic into a Technical University. She also served as President of Data Link Institute of Business and Technology, a private University College in Tema, Ghana. Prof Dzisi started her career as a Teacher at St. Roses Senior High School in Akwatia in the Eastern Region of Ghana.

Prof. Dzisi is the first female to serve as chair of the Vice-Chancellors of Technical Universities of Ghana (VCTU Ghana). Prof. Dzisi served on the Executive Board of the Association of Technical Universities and Polytechnics in Africa (ATUPA) as West Africa Coordinator of Women in Technical Education and Development (WITED). She is passionate about increasing women representation in STEM/TVET. She is a Fellow of many renowned national and international professional bodies.

She is an educational and gender consultant of international repute and has consulted for over 30 private (national and multilateral) and state institutions such as Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection, Commonwealth of Learning, UNFPA, Africa Education Watch and KfW Germany. She has repeatedly received national and international awards for her contribution to educational leadership, entrepreneurship and innovation, and the promotion of girls and women advancement. She was elected in 2020 as a model for TVET by COTVET/GIZ in Ghana. Prof Smile Dzisi is one of the eminent members of the National Education Forum Committee appointed by the President of the Republic of Ghana to organize the National Education Forum and develop a national education policy framework and action plan for implementation.

She is a Patroness of I Believe Global Foundation, an international gender advocacy non-profit organization based in Sweden and Ghana. Her specialized areas of consultancy include education planning and development, organizational re-engineering, business development, gender transformative education, gender and social inclusion policy development.