What I do
What’s in the box?
Mentors share subject-matter expertise and wisdom based on their own life experiences to guide the mentee. Coaches do not need to be experts in your specific field, as they presume you are the expert on your own life.
True transformation comes when real values and
actions are in alignment
Just can’t shift that inner knot..?
Still blocked in your thinking…?
An individual approach to you…
whatever you are dealing with,
whether personal or professional in nature
Relationships in a tangle?
Can’t explain that feeling that things are…
..well, just off?
Feeling stuck or not moving forward as you wish?
Finding the way forward
School Design and Operations Consultancy from extensive, lived experience
Making meaning through coaching
Mentors may share subject-matter expertise and wisdom based on their own life experiences to guide the mentee. Coaches, however, do not need to be experts in your specific field, as they presume you are the expert on your own life.
Authentic conversations
Deep listening, effective questioning
The hallmarks of our conversations… they will be quiet and deep, grounded in honest reflection
Clarity and Alignment
Safe encounters
You don’t need anyone telling you what to do. You have what you need within yourself already, being creative, resourceful and whole. We travel the road together, through challenge, with support, to your destination. Real change is within your grasp.
Genuine Transformation
Can you count the cost?
Decisions without ‘costing’ anything ensure that they remain preferences rather than principles. Together we explore what it will really mean to take the right steps, in alignment with your values.
Suicide First Aid Trainer through LivingWorks®
Whether for you or your organisation, you can become more aware of how you can contribute to creating networks of safety for those struggling with thoughts of suicide. We would use the world-renowned LivingWorks materials.
Recognise and ask
You and your team will learn how to identify the subtle and direct signs that someone may be thinking about suicide. The training builds your confidence and willingness to ask about suicide directly, compassionately, and without judgment.
Intervene
and plan
Safe for Now
ASIST trains you to use the Pathway for Assisting Life (PAL) model. This teaches you how to listen empathetically, explore the person’s reasons for living and dying, and work with them to create a personalised, short-term safety plan.
Connect
Not Alone
You and your team will learn how to identify local community resources and effectively bridge the person to further, long-term help. The focus is on increasing immediate safety and ensuring the person has a solid network of support.
School Leadership & Education Consultancy
You don’t need another consultant who has studied schools. You need someone who has actually run one.
I bring 33 years in education and 18 years in school leadership, across UK independent and international schools, including experience as a Principal/Head of School, governor and senior leader.
I have been responsible for the things that make a school work — leadership, people, culture, strategy, safeguarding, health and safety, policies, procedures, governance, operations and educational quality.
That gives me a practical perspective when working with schools. I understand the difference between something that looks good on paper and something that actually works on a Monday morning…through to Friday afternoon.
How I can help
Starting a School
Turn the vision into a school that is ready to operate.
A compelling educational vision is only the beginning. I can help founders and owners think through the structures, leadership, policies, procedures, risk management and culture needed to turn that vision into a functioning school.
Including:
- Leadership and organisational structures
- Governance and accountability
- Policies and procedures
- Safeguarding and student welfare
- Health, safety and risk
- Staffing and operational readiness
- School culture and expectations
- Educational and organisational design
Designing a School
Make the building work for the education — not the other way around.
School design is more than architecture. Space influences behaviour, relationships, learning and culture.
I bring a Head’s perspective to the conversation between educational vision, organisational structure and physical environment — helping schools ask whether the building they are creating will genuinely support the school they want to become.
Reviewing an Existing School
Sometimes you need someone outside the organisation to see what insiders can’t.
I can provide an independent review of how a school is functioning — from leadership and governance through to policies, procedures, safety, culture and day-to-day practice. The aim isn’t to produce another lengthy report.
It is to identify what matters, what needs attention, and what to do next.
Developing School Culture
Culture isn’t what you say your school values. It’s what people experience.
I work with leadership teams to explore the gap between the culture a school intends to create and the culture people actually experience.
That might mean looking at trust, accountability, communication, leadership behaviour, professional relationships, expectations or how decisions are made.
The objective is not to impose a culture.
It is to help schools understand the one they have — and deliberately shape the one they need.
Supporting School Leaders
Leadership can be lonely. It doesn’t have to be.
Having spent many years in senior leadership and as a Head of School, I understand the complexity of the role from the inside.
I provide experienced, independent thinking support for Heads, Principals and senior teams — helping them navigate difficult decisions, organisational change, leadership transitions and the human realities of running a school.
Policy, Procedure and Risk
Good policies should make schools safer and clearer — not simply create more paperwork.
I can help schools review whether their policies and procedures are:
- Fit for purpose
- Consistent with the school’s context
- Understood by the people expected to implement them
- Practically workable
- Properly connected to leadership and accountability
Particular areas include health and safety, safeguarding, student welfare, risk management and operational procedures.
A Head’s Perspective
My approach is straightforward.
Listen first.
Understand the context.
Ask the uncomfortable questions.
Find the real issue.
Work out what will actually help.
I don’t believe in importing generic solutions into schools. Every school has its own history, ambitions, people, culture and constraints. The best consultancy therefore isn’t about telling a school what to do. It is about helping the school see more clearly what is happening — and what it can do about it.
From start-up to established school, I help schools turn good intentions into schools that actually work.