Leadership Coaching
Our bespoke 1:1 and Small Group Coaching programme is designed specifically for school leaders, offering personalised support to address your unique challenges.
With the flexibility to start at any time, our programme begins with a scoping call to understand your goals and tailor the coaching journey accordingly. Typically, our programme includes five coaching conversations. However, the exact number of coaching conversations may vary depending on your specific challenges.
Our experienced coaches will work closely with you to identify areas for improvement and develop strategies to overcome obstacles. Build capability with each coaching cycle by adding to your kete of knowledge and leadership strategies.
Tailored Coaching Programme
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Professional Coaching and Support
As a school leader, you may seek professional coaching for a variety of reasons. Our coaching programme provides the necessary guidance and practical support for your leadership role. Whether you need help managing overwhelm, building leadership capabilities, or exploring options and strategies, our coaches are here to assist you every step of the way.
Prioritising Wellbeing
We understand that the role of a school principal can be demanding and stressful. That’s why we prioritise your wellbeing. Our individualised leadership coaching supports you in managing stress, building resilience, and maintaining your overall wellbeing. Our coaches help you develop strategies for self-care, work-life balance, and stress management, enabling you to perform at your best while prioritising your health.
Unlocking Leadership Excellence
Our leadership coaching programme is designed to enhance your skills and competencies as a school leader. We work closely with you to identify areas for improvement in communication, decision-making, problem-solving, and team management. Our coaching goes beyond skill-building, helping you gain self-awareness, set meaningful goals, and continuously improve. With our guidance and accountability, you can unlock your full leadership potential and achieve extraordinary outcomes for your school or context.
Support in Challenging Situations
As a school leader, you often face complex challenges in your role. Whether it’s dealing with conflicts, managing change, or addressing performance issues, our leadership coaching provides a confidential and supportive space for you to discuss these challenges with an objective and experienced coach. Our coaches offer valuable insights, tools, and strategies to navigate difficult situations and make informed decisions.
Maximising Impact
Our coaching programme empowers you to have a greater impact as a school leader. Through discussions with your coach, you will explore multiple solutions and approaches, learning how to maximize your effectiveness with evidence-based strategies. Our goal is to help you achieve tangible results and make a lasting positive impact in your school.
Join our transformative coaching programme today and unlock your full potential as a school leader!
Funding available
In 2024, principals can access an entitlement of up to $6,000 per annum for professional coaching and support for their leadership role. The purpose of this support is to ensure principal leadership development and wellbeing.
Find out more on how to access this funding here.
Meet the coaches

Jenna Crowley
Jenna is a collaborative senior leader with a background in both education and commercial organisations including over 16 years of experience leading others’ learning.
Jenna is experienced in individual and group coaching, as well as training others to Impact Coach and to effectively lead Professional Learning Communities within their own contexts.
With a passion for relationships-based approaches, Jenna is committed to building capability in those she works with through professional inquiry and supporting leaders to establish systems that support change. Jenna will help you to focus on evidence, improve team culture, and ensure sustainable outcomes that have measurable impact.

Aleise White
Aleise is an accredited GROWTH Coach and Neuro-linguistic Programming Practitioner. She is experienced in empowering leaders to unlock their full potential.
Aleise has a strong belief in the transformative power of coaching, and she understands the vital role it plays in supporting wellbeing and improving leadership capabilities.
With a relational approach, Aleise builds trusting and collaborative partnerships with leaders. She creates a safe and supportive environment where leaders can explore their challenges, gain clarity, and define their direction. Through thought-provoking conversations, Aleise helps leaders identify their strengths, overcome obstacles, and develop strategies to achieve their goals.

Dr. Debbie Lomax
Debbie is a Dr of Philosophy in Education with expertise in Professional Studies and Change management in Education, Social Anthropology and World Religions. She is certified in Career Guidance and the application of Career Development Theories to counselling and coaching.
Debbie is experienced in one on one and group coaching of Principals to develop their professional management and leadership capability in state-integrated and mainstream schools. While working with the Ministry of Education, she was the Lead Advisor for all of the Communities of Learning in the Marlborough, Nelson, Kaikoura and West Coast regions, supporting Lead Principals in a collaborative mana enhancing way to develop personal confidence and professional practice.
Through a visionary approach, Debbie considers the holistic factors influencing, challenging, and supporting the individual. She draws on her kete of educational expertise and experience, and career development theories to ensure a bespoke approach that aligns with her clients’ diverse backgrounds, beliefs, educational context, and leadership styles to unlock their leadership excellence.

Kim Bulluss
Kim is a collaborative practitioner and accredited facilitator with an extensive background in education, including over 12 years of leading, coaching and mentoring schools, leaders and teachers. She is experienced in empowering people to establish and meet their goals and build their professional and personal potential.
Kim is experienced in facilitating one-to-one and group coaching and fully believes in a relational and trusting person-centred and solution focussed approach to support teachers and leaders and how coaching can lead to improved self-awareness, responsibility, performance, outcomes and overall wellbeing.
With a strong belief in people having a vast number of resources to use to facilitate change, Kim provides an empathetic, non-judgemental, safe and supportive environment, using active listening skills to help leaders gain clarity, explore perspectives and assumptions, determine their plan of action, and develop smart goals to achieve their outcomes working from a strengths base.
Kim comes with a kite of counselling skills to tap into to facilitate personal and professional change, with an interest in a cognitive behaviour approach and how thoughts influence behaviour and stress and anxiety management.

Sarah Thomas
Sarah is an accredited Impact Coach and Group coach and is experienced in leading learning and supporting leaders in a variety of educational settings.
Sarah has experience in both individual and group coaching formats, supporting leaders to unpack a variety of contextual-based challenges and set evidence-based goals.
With a passion for developing relational based pedagogies and bringing about equity in educational settings, Sarah is committed to creating trusting, working relationships where leaders are given agency to clearly define their own contextual challenges and be guided to develop effective, sustainable systems to support change. Sarah enables leaders to dig deep into their evidence and identify areas of strength to build capacity moving forward.

Rob Burrough
Rob is an experienced international educator. He has led two New Zealand secondary schools and two IB schools in Singapore and Kenya and he is a former senior manager in the New Zealand Ministry of Education. He has mentored, coached and appraised principals and other senior school leaders internationally. Additionally, he has skills and experience in strategic planning, change management and all aspects of school management from start-up schools to mature community and traditional schools. Rob’s recent work has been related to curriculum development and supporting NCEA changes.

Rob Callaghan
Rob is a highly experienced educational leader having been a principal for 34 years. During his career he established and led a Kāhui Ako, worked for the Education Review Office as an evaluator, and most recently has provided service as a Statutory Manager and as a Mentor to Principals’.
Rob’s strengths and expertise are in leadership development and effective, sustainable change-management practices. He possesses extensive knowledge of curriculum review, design and implementation including effective assessment practice.
In addition, Rob is a skilled strategic planner and understands its importance in school improvement. He uses his expertise to empower others to lead, build, and sustain effective professional learning communities.

Jenny Bennett
Jen brings a background in principalship to facilitation. She supports schools and Kāhui Ako with strategic and relational leadership, cultural capability, and local curriculum design. In her work, she focuses particularly on supporting the progression from English-medium to dual-medium, and the development of bicultural kaupapa.
Jen supports schools to centre Te Tiriti o Waitangi, empowering partnerships to transform outcomes for all. She brings a focus on creating communities of care through partnerships and equity.
In addition to education, Jen facilitates and supports across other sectors, including facilitating partnership projects and providing administration support to local iwi. She also holds governance roles outside of education and is studying for a Masters in Māori Education.

Jennie Nairn
Jennie is an innovative educator with excellent leadership and interpersonal skills. Building collaborative, highly functioning teams is a specific area of interest promoting effective, productive and safe organisations. A solutions-focused, empathetic leader, Jennie is skilled in working alongside leaders to review processes and organisational structure to build on and develop culture.
Student leadership and the voice of learners complements her experience in curriculum, administration and leadership.
An experienced educator and parent, Jennie blends all perspectives effectively to build understanding and strengthen the relationships between student, school and family.

Angela Dudson-Moko
Ange Moko is a dynamic coaching for impact mentor renowned for her transformative approach. With a focus on power-sharing and co-construction, she empowers individuals through relational trust, dialogue, and active listening.
Ange fosters a reciprocal model of coaching, creating mana-enhancing opportunities for personal growth. Her unique style encourages confidence and fosters self-discovery, guiding clients to evolve and thrive.
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