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I’ll be visiting London and BETT at the end of March (probably 22nd -24th).  As for so many of us this will be my first trade fair since the pandemic and I’m really looking forward to joining in real life again (never expected to be this enthusiastic about a trade fair, not even BETT 😊). It does feel like we are now emerging from the restrictions of the last couple of years and I’m excited to get out there again.

I’m especially interested to meet people from companies with strong market positions, from scale-ups and from investors in the education, edtech, science and healthtech spaces during my trip to London.

As of March I have some availability for advisory and interim work and have extensive skills and experience in leadership/leading change, digital/transformation and commercial/strategy work.  I have deep knowledge and networks across the European education sector.

I’m also open to become a Non-Executive Director of such an organisation, as long as this doesn’t conflict with existing work. Very flexible in terms of location.

Feel free to send me a message at johnmartin@contentconnected.com or DM me on social media if you would like to meet up in London!

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I’ve been keen to learn and to help others to grow as I look for a new job. 

New (ad)ventures

Edtech has been a natural focus and I’ve connected with about 60 edtech ventures across the spectrum. How inspiring and energising!  In the meantime, I’ve invested time and money in four of them, in all cases because of their learning impact, business potential and highly talented leadership. From a personal perspective also because I can add value through my expertise, experience and network.

  • Kognity, provider of digital courses for K-12 (Stockholm)
  • School Day, data platform for student well-being (Helsinki)
  • Edurio, provider of school improvement diagnostics (London)
  • Hypocampus, digital courses and platform for higher education (Gothenburg)

Go with the flow

I’m advising various generalist financial sponsors as well as two industry-focused edtech funds. This is a great way to work with excellent people on the latest deal-flow in the industry from early stage to IPO.

  • Sparkmind.vc is a Helsinki-based venture capital fund, investing in early stage edtech
  • Emerge Education is a London-based venture capital fund investing in the future of higher education and the future of work.

Scale-up

I’ve been working a strategy consultant and coach to two scale-ups in higher education, which has been an excellent opportunity to help them with their growth strategies and to learn more about that market segment.

Always Learning

Always learning, right now I’m working on a MicroMasters in Educational Innovation and Improvement on edX (for the learning) and various courses on MasterClass (for the fun – beautiful design and production quality).  If only the two could find each other …

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Until I find the next big assignment, I will have some availability again as of December.  I’m especially looking for consulting, advisory and interim work mainly in the following areas:

  • Sector: education, science, healthcare, medicine
  • Expertise: digital transformation, leading change, commercial, strategy

If you have a challenging assignment and if you think I could help your organisation to prosper, feel free to reach out at johnmartin@contentconnected.com.

#OpenForWork #Education #Science #Medicine #Digital #Transformation #Edtech #Leadership

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