Our staff stories

I see my role as supporting managers and leaders in becoming the best versions of themselves.

Supporting the lifelong learning opportunities for students, which I have also experienced myself studying with The Open University.

Helping others work towards their goals is important to me and makes this role incredibly rewarding!

I was attracted to the OU due to its reputation in online learning, its openness to all abilities and its longevity, roots and success in distance learning.

I teach because I enjoy sharing knowledge, supporting students to find their lightbulb moment where a theory finally makes sense, or referencing suddenly becomes easy! 

Education is a gateway to realising new opportunities and the Open University provides a fantastic platform to enable this.

The most enjoyable part is seeing the students flourish and develop both in their knowledge and understanding of the learning material and their growth and development as an individual.

What is especially rewarding for me is being able to bring some of my practical experience of financial markets into discussions with students.

I will start by saying that I know how challenging and rewarding studying at the OU is, as I did it for four years as an undergraduate, followed by a year out and then another four years for my MBA.

Learning with apprentices and students from across the business spectrum is always interesting, rewarding and fulfilling. I learn so much from the variety of their work roles, the diversity of the organisations they work for and above all, am inspired by their ability to balance challenging work demands with home life and studies.