Who is doing the work?

I write these reviews as a practitioner, not as a consultant operating within a large firm or a regulated advisory profession.

My professional background is in education, where I have worked as a primary school teacher (holding Qualified Teacher Status) and I have held middle and senior leadership roles in high-accountability environments. This work involved making and supporting decisions under constraint: limited resources, safeguarding responsibilities, external scrutiny, and the long-term consequences of everyday judgement calls.

Over time, this led to a sustained interest in how decisions are actually made inside organisations — not how they are described in policy or process documents, but how judgement operates in practice when time, risk, responsibility, and uncertainty collide.

 
 

The impact of produced reviews

The approach used in these reviews has been shaped by that experience. It values clarity over certainty, restraint over expansion, and independence over alignment. The focus is on recognising patterns, trade-offs, and decision environments rather than prescribing actions or offering assurance.

I do not hold myself out as a lawyer, auditor, regulator, or professional adviser, and this work is not intended to replace specialist advice where that is required. It exists to provide a thoughtful, independent perspective that can support confidence in decision-making where complexity makes simple answers unhelpful.

The work is deliberately written, bounded, and asynchronous. It is designed to fit around the realities of leadership and organisational life, rather than asking you to adapt to consultancy-driven models of engagement.