About Me

I’m the Founder of EduExec Recruitment, a specialist agency supporting schools and trusts with the recruitment of exceptional senior school support and leadership staff, from experts in School Business Management to HR, Finance, Operations and all other roles inbetween.

I’ve spent over a decade in education recruitment, working closely with senior support staff and school leaders across the UK, and along the way I’ve picked up a CIPD Level 7 qualification. That means I can happily talk policy, contracts and strategy, but I promise not to make dinner parties any duller than they already are.

EduExec Recruitment was born out of a simple idea: to offer a more personalised, transparent and informed recruitment solution, built on trust and genuine sector insight. When I say “sector insight”, I mean it literally as my wife is a School Business Manager, so conversations in our house often swing between budgets, staffing challenges and what’s for dinner. It keeps me grounded in the real issues schools face every day.

At the heart of it all, I genuinely enjoy connecting brilliant people with the right opportunities, and helping schools and trusts find leaders who make a real difference. If I can do that while keeping things straightforward, supportive and maybe even a little enjoyable, then I’m doing my job right.

My Posts

October 27, 2025

The Quiet Power of Data in School Decision-Making

Schools make hundreds of decisions every day across many aspects of school life. Many of these decisions are shaped by instinct, experience, or tradition, which are invaluable. Increasingly, the schools are realising pairing experience with data-driven insight is the golden formula. The challenge isn’t access to data as most schools have more than enough but it’s how it’s used. Raw numbers alone don’t make better decisions; interpretation and action do. When data is underutilised, opportunities are missed, patterns remain invisible and assumptions can slowly creep into bias.
October 14, 2025

Too Many Voices Can Blur the Hiring Picture

Over the years, I’ve seen many cases where too many voices in the hiring process create unintended confusion. Different stakeholders - from HR and finance to leadership and SLT's and beyond - all bring their own priorities and perspectives.
October 9, 2025

The Growing Importance of Marketing in Independent Schools

Independent schools today are operating in a climate of shifting expectations, financial pressures, political interference and heightened competition. Where once reputation and tradition alone could sustain healthy enrolment, schools now face headwinds that demand a more proactive and strategic approach to positioning themselves in the marketplace. We've only got to see the stories of closures of long standing institutions to see how challenging the sector is right now. Marketing, certainly when I first started in schools recruitment, was once seen as peripheral or an add-on to someone else’s job description, but over the years has now moved firmly to the fore.
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