I am a founder and strategic consultant working across education, SEND and complex social systems. Through The Single Collective, I undertake strategic systems consultancy, work with leaders and teams on relational trust and organisational culture, and contribute through research, writing and speaking.
Children and young people with SEND sit at the heart of much of this work. My perspective has been shaped through lived experience and through building, governing and working alongside organisations that are trying to do things differently.
I have learned to look at systems from more than one position
I co-founded Gesher in response to the education system failing my child. Since then, I have worked across the school’s strategy, governance, culture and fundraising. Gesher has been judged Outstanding by Ofsted three times, and I have raised more than £15 million for inclusive education.
I also founded the Gesher Assessment Centre after seeing another gap in the system: families waiting too long for assessment and struggling to connect diagnosis with the support their children needed.
Building something different while remaining accountable to the system around it has shaped the way I think. I have seen how policy, process, relationships, resources and institutional power affect what people are able to do. I have also seen what can happen when people connect their knowledge and begin to look beyond the boundaries of one role or organisation.
This breadth of experience is the foundation of the work I do now.
The work I do now
Strategic systems consultancy
I work with foundations, charities, schools, trusts and other organisations on questions that sit across education, SEND, employment and complex social systems. I look for gaps, connections and opportunities, and help shape strategies, models and work that can be tested in practice.
Recent work includes Changing the Narrative, a systems-mapping report exploring SEND, NEET and employment across an ecosystem, and the development of its next phase through listening and co-production.
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Relational leadership and organisational culture
I created Leading from the Inside Out, a ten-month, research-informed leadership programme for groups of leaders in schools and multi-academy trusts. The work moves between leadership practice, relational trust and organisational culture.
I am particularly interested in the relationships, routines and ways of working that allow people to be honest, share expertise, work across difference and take responsibility for something shared. Individual, paired and group coaching also sit within this part of my work.
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Research, writing and speaking
I write and speak about education, SEND, leadership, culture and the relationships that connect people across organisations and systems. I have contributed to conferences, publications and education programmes in the UK and internationally, including recent work with educators and municipal colleagues in Denmark.
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A perspective shaped by service, curiosity and challenge
My approach is shaped by servant leadership, co-production and a coaching lens. I listen carefully and take different forms of knowledge seriously, while bringing independent judgement, challenge and strategic imagination.
I am an AoEC-qualified executive coach and an accredited Action Learning Set facilitator. In 2025, I was awarded an MBE for services to children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities.
Beyond The Single Collective
I co-chair the SEND Council at the Foundation for Education Development and sit on the Education Council of the Autism Centre of Excellence. I am also a trustee of Bloomsbury Football, which works with more than 6,000 children and young people each week, and a trustee and governor of Gesher School.
These roles keep me connected to different parts of the education and social-impact landscape and to the people trying to change it from within.
Who I work with
- Foundations, funders and charities exploring complex questions across education, SEND and wider systems.
- Schools and multi-academy trusts investing in leadership, relational trust and organisational culture.
- Organisations looking beyond established boundaries to develop a strategy, model or next phase of work.
- Conference organisers, publications and international partners seeking a thoughtful contribution on education, SEND, leadership or change.
