Experience

Symplicity

• United States
• Software Development
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Director of Client Success and Strategy - International (EMEA)

  • Apr 2022 - Present

  Enabling higher education clients across Europe, Middle East and Africa to deliver a world-class student experience and successful graduate outcomes for all. Supporting innovation, integration and impact aligned to institutional strategy focussing on university-wide student engagement, wellbeing and disability support whilst enhancing higher level skills development and graduate employability. Driving success and solutions-focussed university partnerships across a powerful regional product portfolio including: Symplicity CareerHub, Symplicity UniHub, Symplicity CSM, Symplicity Access and Symplicity Advocate and PAS.

• Director of Client Success (UK, Europe & South Africa)

  • Mar 2021 - Apr 2022



The RSA (The royal society for arts, manufactures and commerce)

• United Kingdom
• Non-profit Organizations
• 300 - 400 Employee

• Fellow

  • Nov 2020 - Present



adampowell.co

• United Kingdom
• Business Consulting and Services

• Skills & Local Growth Consultant

  • Apr 2018 - Present

  Providing strategic support and consultancy services to clients - including universities, edtech firms and careers & employability organisations - focussed on local growth, policy and improving integration and engagement across the public, private and third sectors in the West of England, South West of England and beyond. Providing strategic support and consultancy services to clients - including universities, edtech firms and careers & employability organisations - focussed on local growth, policy and improving integration and engagement across the public, private and third sectors in the West of England, South West of England and beyond.



Bath Philharmonia

• Co-chair of the Board of Trustees

  • Sep 2018 - Present



The Apartment, Bath

• United Kingdom
• Travel Arrangements

• Co-Owner

  • Nov 2017 - Present

  Award-winning two-bedroom, two-bathroom luxury holiday home in central Bath. A three-minute walk from Bath Spa train station, The Apartment, Bath is perfectly located for meetings, conferences and leisure stays in the city. Winner of Gold Award, New Tourism Busines, Bristol, Bath & Somerset Tourism Awards and Bronze Award, New Tourism Business, South West Tourism Excellence Awards. Finalists for Bath Life Awards 2019 & 2020, Bath Business Awards 2019, Eviivo Awards 2019. Available for weekend breaks, extended stays as well as mid-week stays for professionals.



Bath Bridge

• United Kingdom
• Civic and Social Organizations

• Director

  • Jan 2017 - Apr 2022

  Bath Bridge comprises a small number of local professionals from a variety of backgrounds committed to discovering, nurturing and promoting talent, causes and projects to benefit the city of Bath. Radical, creative, inventive. Bath. Bath Bridge comprises a small number of local professionals from a variety of backgrounds committed to discovering, nurturing and promoting talent, causes and projects to benefit the city of Bath. Radical, creative, inventive. Bath.



Bristol+Bath Creative R+D

• United Kingdom
• Media Production
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Business Development Manager

  • Apr 2020 - Mar 2021

  The Bristol+Bath Creative Research & Development partnership is a £6.8m collaboration between the West of England's four universities - Bath Spa University, University of Bath, University of Bristol and UWE Bristol - and digital creativity centre Watershed. The programme connects outstanding university research, leading industry practitioners and exciting creative businesses to develop a shared vision for tomorrow’s creative industries. It forges connections and partnerships across Bristol and Bath, sharing knowledge, creating crossovers and even greater opportunities in one of the UK's most vibrant creative clusters. The programme is funded by the Creative Industries Clusters Programme managed by the Arts & Humanities Research Council as part of the Industrial Strategy. It also hosts Creative Workforce for the Future, funded by the West of England Combined Authority, working with cultural organisations and companies across the region to connect them to exceptional talent from underrepresented backgrounds.I'll be working from The Studio at Palace Yard Mews, Bath Spa University's new city centre home for innovation, research and enterprise in Bath.



West of England Combined Authority

• United Kingdom
• Public Policy Offices
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Director of Skills

  • May 2016 - Apr 2018



West of England Local Enterprise Partnership

• Director of Skills

  • Mar 2014 - May 2016



Bath Spa University

• United Kingdom
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Head of Enterprise and Local Partnerships

  • Jul 2012 - Feb 2014

  Member of the University's Policy Advisory Group with senior management responsibility for careers, placements, enterprise, employer liaison, widening participation and fair access. Responsibility for enhancing graduate employability and strategic business engagement, whilst taking a lead in developing the University's impact and influence through partnerships across Bath & North East Somerset, neighbouring local authorities and the West of England Local Enterprise Partnership.

• Head of Employability

  • Feb 2008 - Jul 2012

  A member of Bath Spa University’s senior management team, working with colleagues and partners to develop and implement the institution's employability strategy. Management responsibility for the Careers Service and Artswork, the University's Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning in the creative industries. Developing an integrated approach to employability to ensure the delivery of an effective student- and graduate-focused, industry-informed employability strategy.

• Artswork Manager

  • Sep 2005 - Jan 2008

  Adam Powell took up post of Artswork Manager having worked within the creative and cultural industries for over ten years. His role of managing Artswork, Bath Spa University's Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETL) is his first venture in to higher education since graduating.



Association Of British Orchestras

• United Kingdom
• Performing Arts
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Projects Manager

  • Oct 2001 - Sep 2005



Royal Opera House

• United Kingdom
• Performing Arts
• 700 & Above Employee

• Orchestra Projects and Administration Co-ordinator

  • Jan 1998 - Oct 2001