Professional Learning + Advisory
Our team provides professional learning and advisory to early childhood centres, schools and other organisations. We also hold appointments on advisory boards and are involved in a range of consultancies.
Assoc. Prof. Claire Sinnema has held many high-level advisory roles for government education ministries and agencies in Aotearoa and internationally (including Wales, Croatia, Norway, Vietnam, and South Australia) focused on curriculum and educational leadership. She has also been appointed to projects for international agencies including the Organisation for Economic Development (OECD) and British Council. Here in Aotearoa, she has held three Crown appointments to Ministerial Advisory Groups relating to curriculum leadership, and has contributed to more than 30 national-level reference, advisory, and expert groups including for The Ministry of Education, the New Zealand Council for Educational Research, Education Review Office, and Teachers’ Council. Most recently, Claire has served on the New Zealand Education Review Office Expert Advisory Group and has been invited to The Ministry of Education’s New Zealand Curriculum Academic Review Group.
Dr. Megan Welton has experience driving transformational change across a variety of sectors in Aotearoa New Zealand and England, from schools to large, multi-site institutions employing over 5,000 staff. As a skilled relationship builder, Megan works alongside leaders and educators as agents of change in their own contexts, ensuring sustainable improvement and enhanced organisational capacity. As well as consulting on leadership, strategic visioning, organisational design, capability development, programme management and adaptive change, Megan has personally led multi-site projects to deliver organisational effectiveness and measurable outcomes.
Prof. Deidre Le Fevre provides professional development and advisory in a range of contexts including the NZ Ministry of Education, Australia and NZ College of Anaesthetists, Bahrain Teachers College, New Zealand Ministry of Education First-time Principals Induction programme, Education Department of Victoria/Australia, High Performance Sport New Zealand, Australian Council for Educational Research, Malmo School District Sweden, and several New Zealand Schools
Assoc. Prof. Frauke Meyer offers consultancy and advisory support to schools, school leaders, policy-makers, and researchers, drawing on her research in educational leadership, school improvement, and equity. She supports leaders to build organisational coherence, foster relational trust, and implement evidence-informed practices that drive sustainable change. As a co-author of It’s Not Rocket Science: A Guide to the School Improvement Cycle with Dr Linda Bendikson, she provides practical, research-based guidance grounded in real-world school contexts. Her previous consultancy work includes advising and evaluating outcomes on the First-time Principals’ Programme, working and facilitating workshops for the Centre for Educational Leadership and the Australian Council for Educational Leaders, and advising New Zealand Ministry of Education.