Ross McPherson

Blended Learning, Capability and Apprenticeships Lead, Shell Energy

Ross started out in retail, having his first job at the age of 16 working at his local Early Learning Centre store in Solihull but swifty moved into the licensed retail trade by the age of 18. 

This is where Ross’s people manager career started to take off as an Assistant Manager and then progressed into a roving Relief Manager for M&B covering places such as Solihull, Leamington Spa, Nuneaton and Sutton Coldfield. 

Ross took some time to travel and began running a bar abroad, living in Greece for several years before returning to the UK and changing industry, becoming part of the Baxi / BDR Thermea family as an Operational Planning Liaison, running the Southwest portion of their boiler and technical engineering teams and managing the team responsible for supporting the Olympic Village in 2012. 

From there he returned to his Licensed Retail roots, becoming a general manager for a chain of Adult entertainment venues, working in Oxford, Birmingham and Stratford Upon Avon for a few years until meeting his now wife. 

It was then Ross changed industry once more, switching back to a desk job and managing a call centre team within the Utilities industry and this quickly became the route to where he is today. As the Shell Energy Academy Manager, Ross looked after the early careers portion of their volume new starters and then grew the role into incorporating the Apprenticeship schemes and other ventures including their Business Behavioural framework. Now, as the Blended Learning and Apprenticeship Lead, Ross runs a team of Instructional Designers, supporting a Blended Learning approach to training and leading the way on Shell Energy Retails venture into Early Careers, T levels, and apprenticeships.