Skip to content

How it works

Six steps, and the last one happens after I have left.

The work starts on the first call and finishes thirty days after you think it has. Nothing in between is billed for reading your website back to you.

  1. Step 01

    A thirty-minute call, with no pitch in it

    You describe what you already know is happening. I ask about six questions. You leave with the two things worth doing first, whether or not we ever work together — and if a £495 evening would cover it, you hear that on the call rather than in month three.

  2. Step 02

    A written proposal you could show a governor

    Scope, price, dates, what I need from you, and what happens if it slips. One page. If the price is wrong for your school, say so and I will tell you straight whether a smaller version is worth doing or whether you should wait a year.

  3. Step 03

    Your Hub goes up before we start

    Your organisation, your project, your people, the whole programme laid out. You can see every activity, its deadline and its owner before an invoice has been raised.

  4. Step 04

    We work in the open

    You do your activities when it suits you. I review them as they land rather than in a heap at the end, and anything I need clarified comes back with a specific question attached to the specific answer.

  5. Step 05

    Findings, live and then in writing

    I present to your SLT in the room and take the argument, because a report emailed at 9pm gets skimmed at 9.05. The written version follows, pitched at the people who were not there.

  6. Step 06

    Thirty days after I have gone

    A review of what stuck, what quietly stopped, and what needs one more push. Most consultancies have left the building by now. This is the month that decides whether any of it was real.

What I need from you

Four things, and none of them is a steering group.

Programmes stall for boringly predictable reasons. These are the four that predict it, so they belong in the conversation before anyone signs anything.

  • A named owner

    One person on SLT who can make a decision. Not a committee.

  • About a day a month

    Across your leadership team, not from one exhausted deputy.

  • Honest answers

    Including about the tool somebody bought without telling IT. Especially that one.

  • Your existing policies

    Data protection, acceptable use, safeguarding, ROPA. As they are, not tidied up first.

The first call costs nothing and commits you to nothing.

Book a discovery call