After beginning life as a musician, Jan followed this path for 20 years, before realising a career as a professional musician just wasn’t going to happen. As a consequence she moved sideways into arts administration, moving through Opera and Ballet management, into radio production for the BBC, and finishing off with a short spell at English National Opera, before starting her own Arts Adminstration business in 1998. As the admin work has gradually dropped off in favour of accounting services, she has built up a solid portfolio of clients, particularly in the dance world, and has been working with Dickson Mbi Company since 2018.