Diane M. Edwards, MBA has led the Professional Services Unit, the consulting and executive education arm of the Mona School of Business & Management (MSBM) for one year. Her focus is to grow the consultancy into an internationally recognised partner for business and government by providing world class management consulting, executive education and short courses. During her tenure, the Unit has introduced 6 new courses, announced a partnership with the global market leading Digital Marketing Institute and broadened its consultancy outreach to the Caribbean.
Ms. Edwards joins MSBM from a 9-year career as President of JAMPRO, Jamaica’s investment and export promotion agency, where she and her team led the expansion of the BPO sector from 12,000 to 60,000 employees, attracted investment in 12,000 new hotel rooms and were instrumental in driving the government’s Business Environment Reform Agenda.
During her tenure, she managed and supervised a number of internationally and locally funded projects, such as: the IDB funded Global Services Sector project to upskill 24,000 workers in technology skills; the award-winning Export Max programme to deliver export-oriented services to Small and Medium Sized companies; and sat on the Steering Committees for the IDB-funded Boosting Innovation & Growth Entrepreneurship Eco-Systems, the National Investment Policy and the National Business Gateway project.
In 2021 she won a Gold award as “Business Development Executive of the Year” and Silver in the “Woman of the Year in Sales” category in the Stevie International Business Awards. In 2023 she was presented with the coveted John Maxwell Live2Lead Leadership Award
From 2003 to 2013, Ms. Edwards led the expansion of J. Wray & Nephew UK Ltd. as General Manager and Director, achieving the company’s first years of profitability, listings in major West End on trade outlets and in the top four British supermarket chains and building the company’s turnover by 77%.
Ms. Edwards holds an MBA from New York’s Pace University, a Masters in International Relations from Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris and a BA (Hons) in French, Spanish and German from the University of the West Indies (UWI).
