BibbyRumbelow are specialists in the design, delivery and evaluation of learning and training for organisations and individuals and the development of talent and potential.
With experience of working with large organisations in both the public and private sectors, the founding Partners, Dr Darryl Bibby and Dr Judy Rumbelow were Dean and Associate Dean respectively of the successful School of Lifelong Learning at Coventry University. Both have many years experience in developing and assessing innovative and effective learning at higher levels, of working at the interface between Higher Education and companies, and in particular have been responsible for significant change in HE with the recent highly successful programmes delivered in and through work.
Darryl started his career in education but later changed direction and worked in a marketing company as a sales executive finishing up as Marketing Director. Darryl was responsible for driving the sales and marketing of the company, including managing the relationship and performance of all client contracts and sales.
Darryl then moved into Higher Education and became Business Development
Manager and then Head of Continuing
Education at Oxford Brookes
University. He was recruited
to Coventry University in 1999
to establish a Centre for Lifelong Learning. By 2005-6 the Centre
was recruiting more than 2000 part-time students through a curriculum
explicitly aimed at the vocational needs of employers and career
development needs of employees. In 2006 the Centre was made a full
academic School of the University with Darryl its first Dean. Working
with the Associate Dean of the School, Judy Rumbelow, Darryl secured
£4million funding from HEFCE to set up one of the first tranche
of employer engagement projects working with clients such as Caterpillar,
the AA and the NHS.
Since founding Bibby Rumbelow
in May 2005 Darryl has led
consulting on innovative
approaches to income generation
and business development for
universities for clients such
as Queen Mary University of
London and the University of
Salford. He has also designed
a series of staff development
workshops for university staff
to share and develop expertise
in generating a market for
higher level learning from
employers and managing and
growing relationships and partnerships
with them.
 Dr Judy Rumbelow
judy@bibbyrumbelow.com
Judy started her academic career in Further and Adult Education delivering work related learning and training. Judy worked for 6 years at the Open University specialising in the design and delivery of accredited customer service training for Student Support Staff and the development of distance learning for higher level level skills as an author on the BA in Business Studies. As a result of this work Judy completed a work-based Doctorate examining the experiences of people undertaking competence based training in a Higher Education environment. Her research interests remain in this area and focus particularly on the relationship between education and training.
In 2005, Judy joined Coventry University as Associate Dean of
the School of Lifelong Learning. As Project Director for the University’s
successful Employer Engagement Project she worked with Darryl to
design a leadership development programme for large employers which
was delivered at work and assessed using real work issues and challenges.
Since founding Bibby Rumbelow
with Darryl, Judy has focused
particularly on the design and assessment of work-based learning.
This work has included the design and delivery of staff development
programmes specialising in work-based curriculum, quality assurance
and assessment, as well as preparation of distance learning materials
to support staff in HE and FE in managing work-based students.
Recently Judy has advised on the design and implementation of a
work-based ‘shell framework’ through the University approval process,
and supported a university in the accreditation of an existing
employer learning programme into a degree framework.
Henry started work as a production engineer and then spent time
in IT applications development and management before moving on
to sales roles. Henry has more than 25 years experience and success
in sales and marketing in the IT and services industry. He was
the first of a team of Business Development Managers working at
Coventry University. Henry has worked extensively in the Higher
Education sector designing and delivering training in business
development. He was also instrumental in establishing Coventry
University’s first Applied Research Institute in Serious Games
and has experience of setting up new business units working with
companies such as Fujitsu. Henry works as an Associate for Bibby
Rumbelow with a particular focus on business development, marketing
and sales.
Jane started her career in
housing working in London and
Leeds before moving into education as a Principal Lecturer at Leeds
Polytechnic. In 2004 Jane became Associate Dean and Head of School
of the Built Environment at Leeds Metropolitan University developing
professional and vocational programmes in the sector, working with
employers and professional bodies. Jane’s extensive expertise in
quality assurance, and vocational and professional programmes that
met the needs of employers led her to her current fractional post
at the Higher Education Academy as Senior Advisor on employability
and employer learning programmes. Jane works with Bibby Rumbelow
as an Associate with particular expertise in employer related quality
assurance, assessment and accreditation.
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Dr Darryl Bibby
Henry
Jerwood
Jane
Kettle