ABOUT

I’m an independent education advisor who supports the leaders of schools & education organisations.

I’m British, though based in the Netherlands, along with my wife and daughter. I regularly travel to support my clients (currently in the UK and South Africa).

A brief career history

After testing the educational waters with jobs as a teaching assistant in both Primary and Secondary school settings, I started my career as a Citizenship and Sociology teacher in a North London comprehensive school- training through Teach First.

I first moved into the world of teacher & leadership development in 2013 via a year in Uganda with the amazing PEAS and their network of 27 rural schools. This role introduced me to Ark Schools where I then spent a hugely formative next eight years.

Three of those years were spent helping to build the nascent Ark Teacher Training programme (which has continuously been rated as ‘Outstanding’ by Ofsted, since its first inspection in 2016).

In 2017 I moved to Cape Town, South Africa, as part of Ark’s Education Partnership Group (EPG) consultancy. Here I spent six years supporting the development of new ‘school operating partners’ (similar, but not identical, to Trusts or Charter schools in the UK or US), advising the operators on strategic planning, curriculum, assessment, teacher training and school leadership development. Common Good and Acorn Education (which has since become Apex Education) were two of those SOPs.

Alongside this, I helped to set up the South Africa version of Relay’s Leverage Leadership Institute, the Instructional Leadership Institute (ILI).

Wanting to re-engage with life at the sharp-end of schools, I returned to Ark in 2021-22 to take up a role as Deputy Principal at Ark Charter in Portsmouth, before setting up as an independent consultant.

Since then, I’ve worked with One World Network of Schools in Tajikistan, led leadership training courses for the Ark Teaching School Hub, and continued to advise ILI.

Huddle (South Africa) and Aldridge Education (UK) have both been clients since 2022. You can read more about them in the ‘Projects’ section.