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Business entrepreneur; social media; website design; YouTube; baking blogger
Educational leadership; curriculum; accreditation; service; wellbeing; international
Educational leadership; achievement through sports; values; strategy; UK education
Higher education; college counselling; scholarships; second chances; international
Quality assurance; school improvement; accreditation; governance; international
Educational leadership; school improvement; strategy; vision; coaching; UK education
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Solutions: Establishing a Youtube channel; website creation; film making; social media; female entrepreneur; baking blogger
Wendy Tang is a qualified teacher from Hong Kong who left the classroom to develop her own very successful business in Singapore. Since moving to the UK she has transferred her core activities from product creation into blogging, influencing, and generating income from her Youtube channel. Wendy speaks Cantonese and some Mandarin in addition to fluent English with a Masters degree in Music. She has built 4 websites from the ground up for herself and her clients.
Solutions: Mentoring emerging educational leaders; Human centered, pragmatic approach to guide leaders in traditional and non-traditional educational environments particularly with accreditation, wellbeing, sustainability, service and interdisciplinary learning.
Lizzie Bray is an established educational leader who never fails to be inspired by the creativity and energy found in teaching and learning. Anchored by more than 30 years of classroom experience in Canada, Dominican Republic, Bahrain and Singapore, Lizzie built a successful career as an administrator at UWCSEA (Dover) in Singapore. This included creating a K12 mission-aligned curriculum; leading a vibrant Middle School as Principal and leading learning for 3000 students as Head of School (Dover campus). Now based in Canada, Lizzie is engaged in projects that make a difference to young people. The power and impact of education matters deeply to Lizzie and she is excited to currently be working with Amala Education for Change as they embark on their first CIS / NEASC self study for accreditation to support learning for refugee students in Kenya and Jordan.
Lizzie Bray
Solutions: Leadership, achievement through sports, values, leadership development, consultancy
Derek Peaple has twenty years’ experience as a secondary headteacher. Under his leadership, Park House School in Newbury developed as one of the country’s most successful Specialist Sports Colleges, subsequently being identified in the top 100 state schools in the country for continuous improvement.
Derek’s championing of the values of sports to build confidence in learning across the curriculum resulted in his shortlisting for Times Education Supplement National Headteacher of the Year Award. In this context, his ‘values-driven ambition for students’ has been praised by Ofsted as a distinctive feature of his leadership.
In 2020 he set up The Leading Peaple Company Limited, offering innovative consultancy services in relation to school and leadership development to a wide range of national and international partners.
Solutions: Helping students apply to universities around the world; Finding scholarships for students to go to college; Mentoring college counselors and university advisors; helping families find more affordable university options
Joan Liu has been a college counselor for the past 22 years, across six schools in the US, UK, Turkey, and Singapore. In the admissions industry, Joan is the best known for her work in 2018, when she mobilized a pro-bono team of counselors to support the 60 Nepali students who had lost their scholarships from University of Texas at Tyler (due to a budget error on UT Tyler’s part). She and her team re-seated 56 students at new universities in the US, Canada, Middle East, and East Asia, with 10+ million in financial aid and scholarships, and raised 180K in gap funding – after the US cycle had finished that year. This year, Joan is turning that work into a non-profit called Second Chance.
Joan Liu
Solutions: Assuring the quality of schools for all stakeholders. Offering short, medium and longer term solution-oriented services for schools focused on school improvement and quality assurance, for educators on the move and for families in transition (through coaching and counselling).
Carole Denny set up her consultancy company in August 2021 after more than 25 years as teacher, leader and board member in international schools in Asia, Europe, Middle East, and USA. After four years working with an international accreditation agency supporting schools globally, she is now offering a range of services to schools and individuals. Key areas of focus include conducting school audits; preparing schools for membership of international agencies and accreditation; supporting school improvement by guiding the creation, review, revision and implementation of guiding statements (mission, vision, values); strategic planning processes; governance and leadership establishment, transition, training and development; policy advice and support for HR, for health, safety and safeguarding, well-being and global citizenship. She is also available for keynote speaking and presentations on a range of subjects of interest to international school communities.
Carole is now based in Asia and serving clients worldwide.
Solutions: Leadership coaching and mentoring, school improvement, vision and values
Paul Jacobs has thirty years’ experience in education leadership. He served in leadership roles in
both UK secondary schools and in local government, including as Director of Education.
Paul is passionate about supporting people to realise their potential. He has experienced the value of coaching both at an individual and group level and he has supported the development of many education leaders. Paul is currently coaching individual leaders as well as acting as a group coach for NPQ programmes.
Through Paul’s roles in schools, in local government education directorates and as an Ofsted
inspector he has gathered experience and expertise in school improvement. He is committed to a values based approach to all that he does.
In 2017, Paul set up PJ Leaders at Your Service – as a vehicle for his consultancy work in education settings and to express his commitment to public service.
Paul Jacobs