I’m a leadership coach and capability builder. I can help you navigate the muddy waters of middle leadership. I have juggled those waters for 23 years and I know I didn’t do it alone. Great coaches, mentors and educators helped me.

I understand the challenges you face daily leading from the middle. Your work is complex, hectic, but so rewarding.

You spend your day juggling teaching, leading and managing. You are driven by your strong moral purpose to create learning environments where your teachers and students succeed.

I’m here to help YOU.

How I got here . . .

I believe that ‘every student deserves a great teacher, and every teacher deserves the opportunity to be great.’ As such, my career has been dedicated to building teacher capability through leading curriculum and pedagogy in secondary schools. I now specialise in creating opportunities for middle leaders in schools to thrive. This led me to establish Pivotal Leadership, offering leadership coaching and development opportunities for middle leaders.

In 2018 I established the ACELQ Pivotal People Middle Leaders network on the Gold Coast. Pivotal People is a professional collegial network for educators leading from the middle that aims to create engaging and intellectually stimulating conversations about issues important to middle leaders. This network has expanded to Brisbane and has provided professional learning for over 300 middle leaders.

I am the Executive Officer, Adolescent Success, and an Australian Council of Educational Leaders Queensland Branch Vice President and Executive Board Member. Previously I have held include Leadership Development for the QLD Department of Education, Deputy Principal, Pedagogy and Curriculum leader in various secondary schools in Victoria, Queensland and the Northern Territory.

I have a masters degree in school leadership and I am currently tackling a PhD at Griffith University, researching how middle leaders in secondary schools develop their leadership practice.

I am also an accredited Growth Coach (GCI).