Managing Publishing Strategy

Who will benefit from this course?

Publishers, Commissioning Editors, Publishing Managers, Publishing Directors from any sector of educational, academic or trade reference publishing.

Kay Symons has 30 years' experience with some of the foremost educational publishers in the UK. She worked at Heinemann for 20 years, as publishing director and MD of Heinemann Secondary and Vocational during a period of huge success from 1997-2004. After a secondment to take an international executive MBA programme at Henley Management College, she fulfilled a number of roles working on strategic projects, as Marketing Director and as Harcourt's first Customer Focus Director. She is now a publishing consultant and popular trainer.

Josie Dixon was Publishing Director for the Academic Division at Palgrave Macmillan until 2003, and before that worked for 11 years in commissioning and managerial roles at Cambridge University Press. She now works as a publishing consultant with a special interest in training, and has given workshops and lectures on the publishing industry internationally. She has over 40 clients in the UK, USA and Europe and writes regular articles on the book trade for The Reader magazine.

Please note that most of our courses can be run as in-company training events.
Contact The Publishing Training Centre to learn more about in-house training.

Our in-company training offers you a bespoke service with the backing and expertise you already expect of the Publishing Training Centre.

We can run courses at your own offices, at our premises in Wandsworth or at another venue of your choice.

In-company training falls into three categories:

• Buying in short courses - We can run most of our standard short courses for your team, with exercises, references and case studies adapted to suit your business.
  • One way to check the quality and relevance of a particular course is to enrol one delegate on the equivalent short course. Should you then go on to commission your own version, we will refund the cost of this enrolment.
• Commissioning customised training - Customised training is the best choice when you want a higher degree of specialisation or for us to construct something unique.
• Consultancy - From an open-ended or wide-ranging brief, we will review either specific or more general aspects of your business, and help you identify areas where training would help.

Contact The Publishing Training Centre to learn more about in-house training.

We also offer Journals Management, Managing Digital Projects and, for relatively new commissioning editors » Commissioning and List Management.

Funding and discount information can be obtained by contacting The Publishing Training Centre and completing an Information Request.

Excellence in training for the publishing sector

Celebrating 30 Years of Training Publishers

For over 30 years The Publishing Training Centre at Book House (PTC) has been firmly established as the pre-eminent training organisation within publishing. We provide high quality yet cost-effective training for publishers both in the UK and overseas. Previously known as Book House Training Centre, PTC is an educational charity dedicated to the pursuit of excellence in publishing. 

The Publishing Training Centre grew from a small department at The Publishers Association and remains at the heart of the industry. All of our tutors are practitioners first and foremost, which means that they bring their real-world experience with them to the courses they teach, enriching the experience for students and making the courses more practical. PTC's work is overseen by a dedicated Board of Trustees, who have a broad range of experience and expertise in the publishing industry.

Offering over 70 short courses covering the complete range of publishing skills, as well as distance learning programmes and in-company training opportunites. PTC also cater for non-publishers who still need some of the core editorial skills.

We are always happy to hear from you with any ideas for a course, or from potential tutors!

Send us an Information Request; we'd love to hear from you.