Stella Binoy

Stella is an experienced leader with over 25 years in primary education. She has held roles as Deputy and Headteacher, mainly in deprived inner-city areas. She also became Head of a new school, building a team and community from scratch.

Stella is passionate about supporting leaders to become the best version of themselves, enabling them to lead their teams to thrive. She understands the stresses of senior leadership but also the thrill of seeing the community flourish.

She has extensive knowledge of education and experience supporting senior leaders outside education, such as those in the NHS and charity sector.

Stella uses mentoring and coaching to help new leaders recognise and develop their leadership skills in sustainable ways. For established leaders, she can support in fine-tuning skills or exploring other leadership styles.

Dougie Boyd

Dougie has extensive leadership experience across education and the charity sector. He trained as a secondary teacher, later moving into senior leadership roles before joining a national healthcare, education and mental health charity in an executive position.

In the third sector, he has worked with the NHS, corporates, academia and the Department for Education, where he supported the rollout of RSHE as a mandatory subject.

A safeguarding expert, Dougie has led serious case reviews and audited safeguarding systems across multiple agencies. He combines this expertise with his work as a person-centred therapist and supervisor, supporting individuals and organisations to build resilience, strengthen decision making and ensure compliance with legal and ethical standards.

Through fearless and supportive alliances with schools and leaders, Dougie helps professionals meet their safeguarding duties while also addressing the personal and professional impact of this challenging work.

Bethan Cartwright

With 30 years of leadership experience in education, Bethan brings a deep understanding of people, purpose, and performance. Her journey as a headteacher taught her the power of transformational leadership, team alignment, and lifelong learning.

After becoming an EMCC certified Executive Coach, she transitioned to coaching and developing leaders in education to rediscover purpose, build resilience, and lead with clarity. Her practice is rooted in systemic coaching, creating space for sustainable, collaborative, and transformational development.

Bethan is passionate about developing others, fostering resilience, and creating learning cultures that thrive in complexity. Her approach is grounded in purpose, collaboration, and continuous growth.

She believes leadership is both a privilege and a responsibility. Her mission is to support others in embracing that with courage, compassion, creativity, and joy.

Amanda Harrison

With over 30 years of experience in education, Amanda has held extensive leadership roles, including two successful headships in large secondary schools serving challenging and diverse communities. Her career is shaped by a commitment to school improvement, inclusive practice, and raising aspirations in complex settings.

Amanda is a qualified ILM Level 7 Executive Coach and holds an MPhil in Leadership and Management. Her coaching approach is informed by academic research, frontline leadership experience, and a robust understanding of systemic challenges.

She specialises in supporting leaders in high-stakes, high-pressure environments, particularly where dysfunction or conflict in leadership teams may impact performance and culture. She has a strong track record in addressing issues related to safeguarding, inclusivity, and neurodiversity.

Amanda brings empathy, realism, and humour to every conversation, creating coaching spaces that are safe, supportive, and thought-provoking.

Trevor North

Trevor believes that everyone has the capacity for change and growth within them, and unlocking this potential is key to achieving highly effective work and success. He provides clients with a safe, challenging, and supportive space to find their direction.

Trevor brings vast experience in change management, leadership development, and executive leadership, along with compassion and curiosity. He draws from a range of coaching models to support a client’s thinking and seeks to provide a partnership approach throughout the coaching journey.

His passion is to help people find their direction. As an executive coach, experienced headteacher, and facilitator, he coaches leaders and executives working within education, with some clients based in the NHS as well.

Trevor has provided highly effective coaching for leaders across a wide range of complex issues, change management, and organisational challenges and as a serving headteacher, he has a deep understanding of the current complexities of school leadership.

Chris Parkhouse

Chris is an experienced leader who has worked as a headteacher and executive headteacher in Yorkshire, including rural and city schools, including one with an enhanced provision for Special Educational Needs.

He has worked in the education sector for over 15 years, with a decade of successful leadership experience and a proven track record of leadership excellence.

As a coach, Chris seeks to provide a safe, confidential space where clients can share their thoughts, aspirations, and worries. This allows them to explore and reflect on the issues of key importance together.

Based on a trusting relationship, he works with clients to help them find positive solutions, develop strategies, and determine the steps they can take to succeed in their roles and fulfil their vision. Chris doesn’t believe there is a single approach, which is why he always personalises coaching, tailoring every session to focus on the issues and areas that matter most to the client

Kate Owbridge

Kate has been in primary teaching since 1993, and leadership since 1997. She first became a head in 2004, and has been head in three schools, an executive head in a fourth, and supported two others in an interim capacity. Both Church and Community schools, in four different LAs, and three Dioceses, over 21 years. From inner city Lambeth and Southwark to the London suburbs, and the market towns and villages of East Sussex and Kent, there is very little that Kate hasn’t experienced as a school leader. She has been the Chair of Governors in her local village school, is now a governor at another, inspects for Ofsted, and is a practicing Anglican. She often feels like not only was she there, did it, and bought the T shirt, she also sold it on Vinted and bought another on eBay!

She is keen to share this extensive experience with others, through mentoring and guidance, to grow leaders for the future, and support all those leading in schools to make their schools the best they can be for the children in those individual communities that we serve.