Our story
When we look back on our humble beginnings to now be working on major projects, we are so proud to know we are making a real difference in the sector.
Guided by a distinct lack of services available for education providers, combined with a drive to start up a successful business, Sarah Phillips and her brother Alex Phillips created Pop Education.
Sarah brought many years of education industry expertise and knowledge and along with Alex’s multimedia and digital development skills, the sister and brother duo identified a gap in the market where services were hard to come by at that moment in time. Their little side hustle very quickly turned into a full time gig. To support this growth, a new director Melissa Palmer was appointed in 2020. As well as Melissa’s education background, Melissa brings operations and exceptional organisational skills to the business.
Starting their own business meant Sarah and Alex could guide the process to promote quality products and encourage departments to back and understand their investment. They also wanted to create a balance between a challenging and rewarding working environment with the demands that life can bring by building a remote, flexible workforce.
Our growth also meant we needed a permanent space to call home and our Head Office in Bendigo opened in 2021. Whilst still supporting a remote and flexible workforce that spans two states, we love nothing more than bringing the creative minds of our team together to brainstorm and explore the possibilities of what we can offer to the education sector.
Our team of experts leverage from real-world learning and assessment experiences, understand industry compliance and best practice and also what makes the learning experience enjoyable from the student’s perspective. We create learning that sticks and translates into real knowledge and skills in the workplace – and we make it fun!
Our team loves to work on health and community services projects but also enjoy the diversity of trades, business, education, food and fiber and innovation industries. We are passionate about what we do and are driven by working on exciting projects that add value to our clients and meaning to theirs.
At Pop, we worked remotely and flexibly before it was a necessity and we understand the complexities, as well as the advantages, of learning in this way. We know what works in an online learning environment because we have lived it! And we love nothing more than getting the team together at our Bendigo head office to foster creativity, brainstorm solutions and explore the possibilities of what we can offer our clients.
