Jane Powell - Managing Director
Jane has been Director of Shift Learning since it was founded in 2001. Since then she has overseen market research and content development projects for many of our key clients.
Prior to co-founding Shift Learning, Jane Powell established a reputation as a market-driven publisher during 10 years at Palgrave Macmillan, Financial Times Management and Pearson Education. In this period she built a track record in commissioning and using content in innovative ways in higher education markets.Â
As online content manager, Jane played a pivotal role in managing and developing the UK's foremost programme of companion higher education websites and online courses at Pearson Education, where she used video, the web and workshops to increase market share. She has commissioned for most professional and education markets and played a major role in building the Macmillan Business brand, as well as establishing marketing, international business, psychology, media studies and strategy lists at Pearson Education.
Jane is a full member of the Market Research Society. She has a degree in Economics and a Marketing Diploma from the Chartered Institute of Marketing. The early part of her career was spent at the National Economic Development Organisation where she worked as a statistical assistant supporting economists.
She has run Market Research training courses for the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP). She is a member of the expert panel of The MAPP (Marketing in Academic and Professional Publishing).
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