ABOUT US
Australia's Leading Provider of Digital Marketing Courses
The Next Level Academy is a nationally-accredited Registered Training Organisation providing vocational and professional training courses in Australia and international markets such as Singapore, United Kingdom, and United States. We currently deliver training courses in physical classrooms in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth, as well as, live or synchronous online training courses in virtual classrooms worldwide.
Demonstrable skills to impress employers
Learn-by-doing and create a portfolio
Always instructor-led, live feedback
Our Purpose is to Right a Wrong
Universities have failed to prepare their marketing graduates for marketing jobs because they have got most things wrong. They have the wrong people teaching the wrong things in the wrong way. The only right way to learn marketing is to acquire the right digital marketing skills by watching industry professionals show you how each task is done, then repeating these tasks yourself with their guidance and feedback.
- 59% of marketing graduates are under-employed, working high-school level jobs five years after graduating.
- Only 23% of marketing professionals have a marketing degree (drops to 13% at senior level).
- 72% of marketing is digital marketing; yet, it only accounts for 7% of marketing units at most universities.
Are you ready for a marketing job? Take a ten minute Skill Assessment here to find out.
We Believe that the 'WHY' shapes the 'WHAT' and the 'HOW'
In this video, our founder Kenneth Yap explains the reason he established Next Level Academy and the difference he is hoping to make.
Our Purpose
The Next Level Academy was founded for one purpose: To help marketing students everywhere close the widening gap between what they must learn for the job and what they were being taught. The problem and impact was too big for us to ignore:
- So much human potential is wasted because too many graduates are taught the wrong things by the wrong people, and they miss out all the benefits of a marketing career.
- So much productivity is lost because employers have little choice but to bear the burden of additional time and cost on recruiting, training, and managing employees to make up for their skill gap.
We envision a future where The Next Level Academy will be the Number one choice in the world for training and development because we are a marketplace of skills and talent development for both professionals and employers, with the range of training topics and options wide enough to be your lifelong career partner.
Our Vision
Our Value
Our four values guide everything we do, every decision or policy we make, every product or service we design, and every market we enter. If it doesn’t sit right with us, we simply won’t do it.
- We value training and development over ‘education’, just as we value application more than theory. This is why we hire trainers who can ‘walk the talk’ and share their experience having ‘been there, done that’.
- We value quality over quantity, just as we value results over promises. This is why we would prefer to have very high graduate employment rates, even if it means that our training is tougher and our classes are smaller.
- We value effort over achievement, just as we value progress over perfection. This is why we train only those who are ready to improve themselves today.
- We value mentorship over lectureship, just as we value wisdom over knowledge. This is why our trainers spend twice as long demonstrating, observing, and guiding as they do speaking.
Our Staff
We have organised our staff into three groups. One is Management, who are responsible for the overall operations, administration, and direction of The Next Level Academy. Another is Faculty, comprising training course Designers, Trainers, and Assessors who are responsible for the quality of the training. The other is Customer Success, comprising designated relationship managers for each learner and graduate and are responsible for supporting the learner experience and success at the workplace.
Management Staff
Kenneth Yap
Lead Trainer & Assessor
Kenneth Yap’s marketing career spans nearly 30 years, with both client-side and agency experience across several countries including Australia, United States, Malaysia, and Singapore. He has led projects and teams in market research, brand strategy, new product development, e-commerce, and retail marketing. His training and mentoring approach is demonstrative, pragmatic, detail-oriented; and believes that the best learning comes from mistakes and failures. He is a nationally certified Trainer and Assessor.
Lead Trainer & Assessor
Kenneth Yap
Lead Trainer & Assessor
Kenneth Yap’s marketing career spans nearly 30 years, with both client-side and agency experience across several countries including Australia, United States, Malaysia, and Singapore. He has led projects and teams in market research, brand strategy, new product development, e-commerce, and retail marketing. His training and mentoring approach is demonstrative, pragmatic, detail-oriented; and believes that the best learning comes from mistakes and failures. He is a nationally certified Trainer and Assessor.
Faculty Staff
Kenneth Yap
Lead Trainer & Assessor
Kenneth Yap’s marketing career spans nearly 30 years, with both client-side and agency experience across several countries including Australia, United States, Malaysia, and Singapore. He has led projects and teams in market research, brand strategy, new product development, e-commerce, and retail marketing. His training and mentoring approach is demonstrative, pragmatic, detail-oriented; and believes that the best learning comes from mistakes and failures. He is a nationally certified Trainer and Assessor.
Kenneth Yap
Lead Trainer & Assessor
Kenneth Yap’s marketing career spans nearly 30 years, with both client-side and agency experience across several countries including Australia, United States, Malaysia, and Singapore. He has led projects and teams in market research, brand strategy, new product development, e-commerce, and retail marketing. His training and mentoring approach is demonstrative, pragmatic, detail-oriented; and believes that the best learning comes from mistakes and failures. He is a nationally certified Trainer and Assessor.
Kenneth Yap
Lead Trainer & Assessor
Kenneth Yap’s marketing career spans nearly 30 years, with both client-side and agency experience across several countries including Australia, United States, Malaysia, and Singapore. He has led projects and teams in market research, brand strategy, new product development, e-commerce, and retail marketing. His training and mentoring approach is demonstrative, pragmatic, detail-oriented; and believes that the best learning comes from mistakes and failures. He is a nationally certified Trainer and Assessor.
Interested in joining us for a purpose-driven career?
If you’re looking for work opportunities with us as a Faculty or Customer Success staff member, please look at our Current Vacancies page, then send us an email on careers@thenextlevelacademy.com.au.
Our Industry Advisors
Industry Advisors are current practitioners who are up-to-date with the latest developments in the professional, as well as, trends in hiring and technology. Our Faculty staff work with them on course development to ensure that it aligns with employers’ expectations. Industry Advisors also play a critical role in our continuous improvement and often help expand our industry network of employers and content partners.
Tanya Dharmapala
Lead Digital Strategist, Dilate Digital
Tanya Dharmapala
Lead Digital Strategist, Dilate Digital
Join Us as an Industry Advisor to Help Mold the Next Generation of Professionals
If you would like share your expertise and opinions on developing the right skills and standards for your profession, we would love to have a chat. Please send our CEO an email on kenneth@thenextlevelacademy.com.au.