Learning strategist · Programme director · Executive education and digital learning
I have spent more than three decades working in the learning business. My career brings together educational publishing, higher education, executive education, leadership development and digital learning.
It’s certainly been a squiggly career — and it has equipped me with the breadth of experience that shapes how I work with my clients today.
My early career roles were in marketing before taking on more senior roles to develop print and digital products for the higher education market. Digital and blended learning has therefore always been at the core of my work.
In 2008, I joined Saïd Business School, University of Oxford. Over the following decade, I worked across open and custom executive education in business development, client relationship management, programme direction and learning innovation. This gave me a strong understanding of the whole executive education business: developing propositions, understanding client needs, designing learning, directing programmes and building relationships that support commercial growth.
In 2018, I established Angela Adams Consulting whilst completing my Masters in Digital Education at the University of Edinburgh. Today, I work independently across the two sectors that have shaped much of my career: organisational learning and leadership development, and higher education.
What connects all of this is a set of beliefs about what learning should do: build capability and competence to enable people to flourish and shape their organisations so that everyone can do their best work. Technology is one enabler to deliver on this.
Independent consultancy in leadership development, executive education, programme and course design, digital learning strategy, programme review and evaluation, and content development.
Programme direction, design and delivery of executive education and leadership development across in-person, blended and online learning.
Learning strategy, digital pedagogy, assessment and online course and programme design for higher education and professional learning.
Learning innovation, custom executive education, blended and online learning strategy, technology adoption and programme direction.
Business development and client relationship management for custom executive education across the UK and Europe, alongside programme development and delivery.
Participant recruitment for open executive education, including the launch of new leadership propositions.
Commissioning, product development and marketing for business and management higher education publishing, including digital product development.
MSc Digital Education, University of Edinburgh — Merit. Dissertation on pedagogical innovation in business school MBA education during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Post Graduate Certificate in Education (Business Studies), University of Roehampton.
BA (Hons) Business Studies, Leicester Polytechnic.
Alongside running my business, I am mum to two grown-up children. I am a keen runner and cyclist, a recent — and enthusiastic — convert to reformer Pilates, and I love to travel whenever I get the opportunity.
Have a learning challenge, an opportunity or an idea you’re still shaping? I’m happy to talk it through.
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