Jane Ford

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About Jane Ford

Dr Jane Ford is an editor, writer and storyteller who works with clients to deliver compelling research and key messages. She’s all about crafting messages to have an impact on the intended audience, recognising the prevailing fierce competition for attention. In her role as Head of The Advertiser Foundation she supports the community to bring The Advertiser’s vision to life, giving children and young people and people experiencing homelessness a boost when they need it through building partnerships with corporates, government, community organisations and charities. With a wide-ranging career in consulting, policy, journalism, research and communications, Jane specialises in content-rich editing of professional reports to ensure they resonate. She has written and edited for audiences in long and short formats, and has commissioned and managed complex research projects for government and corporates. Jane's been a policy and communications consultant with the Australian Medical Association (SA), the Australian Dental Association (SA) and has consulted on policy and evaluation across education, health trade and innovation. She’s been corporate PR Manager for national holiday parks network, the G’Day Group, and is on the board of not-for-profit, See Differently. Originally a journalist, Jane has worked in Sydney, Canberra and Adelaide in public relations, policy design, project and program management, evaluation and advocacy for government, professional associations and business. Jane has a PhD in international trade policy and degrees in journalism, economics and politics, and she is a published author in international publications. Having recently taken a ‘gap year’ to study acting again after a long break, she has written, performed and produced for theatre and film and is a regular newsreader on Fresh FM. She draws on these skills to help clients craft professional reports through content- rich editing as well as to produce impactful speeches, scripts, video, books, copy and other content.