Jarrad Merlo is today’s guest, he is principal consultant at Nouns n’ Verbs, where he works with schools, publishers, and companies to digitise their language learning and testing ecosystems — from content and assessment to media, marketing, teaching, and strategy. Jarrad brings a unique blend of expertise in applied linguistics, education, and technology, helping organisations adapt to the rapidly changing digital landscape in language learning.
Before founding Nouns n’ Verbs, Jarrad co-founded E2, an EdTech company that has become one of the world’s leading platforms for high-stakes English exam preparation. Over the past decade, he helped build E2 into a global success, serving more than 1.5 million registered users and partnering with institutions across the education sector. As the face of E2’s popular YouTube channels, Jarrad Merlo has reached a worldwide audience of English learners — with over 2.5 million subscribers — making complex language concepts accessible, engaging, and practical.
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In this conversation, we’ll dive into Jarrad’s journey from teaching English to building and scaling an international EdTech company, and explore what he’s learned about innovation, leadership, and the future of English language teaching. We’ll also discuss his current work with Nouns n’ Verbs — helping traditional institutions and publishers make the leap into digital transformation — and what trends he sees shaping the next wave of learning technology, AI, and assessment.
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Whether you’re an educator, entrepreneur, or just curious about how technology is reshaping the way we teach and learn languages, this episode offers a fascinating look inside the intersection of education, business, and technology from someone who has helped lead that transformation on a global scale.
About Jarrad
Jarrad Merlo is the principal consultant of Nouns n’ Verbs.com where he helps schools, publishers and companies digitise their language learning and testing products, content, assessment, media, marketing, teaching and strategy.
He co-founded and spent the last ten years building an EdTech company called E2 that specialises in B2C and B2B high-stakes English exam prep that has registered over 1.5 million users. Jarrad is also the face of E2’s YouTube channels that have over 2.5 million subscribers.
He has a wealth of knowledge about technology start-ups and scale-ups and all things applied linguistics and technology.
