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

I’m British & based in the Netherlands. I travel regularly to support my clients (currently in the UK and South Africa).

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A brief career history

After testing the educational waters as a teaching assistant (at both Primary and Secondary schools), I trained through Teach First and began my career as a Citizenship and Sociology teacher in a North London comprehensive school.

I moved into the world of teacher & leadership development in 2013, with 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 been rated as ‘Outstanding’ by Ofsted at every inspection since 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 England 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 establish the South African 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 that work in the ‘Projects‘ section.