Brent Benner

Brent Benner is an independent enrollment and sports consultant who is currently Interim Vice President of Campus Enrollment & Financial Aid at Saint Leo University in suburban Tampa. For twenty years Brent served in enrolment management at The University of Tampa and retired as Associate Vice President for Enrollment Management. He also served as Director of Admissions at Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago, IL and has previously taught in the Department of Psychology at Northern Illinois University. Prior to his work in enrollment management, Brent was founder and President of Benner & Aló, a firm specializing in education and career counseling of professional athletes. Brent has counseled hundreds of professional athletes across all major sports and has implemented career counseling programs for NFL teams and the Professional Hockey Player's Association. He has spoken at national conferences on the issues of university minority recruitment, STEM preparation/recruitment, financial aid reform, managing college cost, as well as career transition of athletes.