About Emma
Emma is an educational leader specialising in school culture, pedagogical development, and data-informed improvement. Over her career, she has supported schools to strengthen teaching, build consistent and relational cultures, and create strategic systems that support student success.
Her work is grounded in the belief that student learning improves when leadership, culture, and pedagogy are aligned.
Leadership Approach
Emma combines strategic, evidence-informed leadership with a deep commitment to relational practice.
This approach focuses on:
Building strong school cultures that enable learning and wellbeing
Enhancing pedagogical approaches through coaching, modelling, and professional development
Developing leadership capacity at all levels of a school
Using data purposefully to support improvement and measure impact
Embedding consistent systems that reduce uncertainty and increase staff confidence
Creating inclusive environments where every student can thrive
Why School Culture & Pedagogy Matter
School culture and classroom practice are inseparable. The strongest schools:
Have consistent expectations
Use assessment and data to guide teaching
Foster trust and collaboration
Support staff with clear structures
Ensure students feel safe, valued, and challenged
Emma’s work helps schools bring these threads together to create meaningful, sustainable improvement.
How we can help
Emma Wheatley Educational Leadership & Consulting supports schools, leaders, and teachers through:
Leadership Coaching: Focused on strategy, culture, communication, and instructional leadership.
School Culture Development: Including behaviour frameworks, relational practice, routines, and consistency.
Pedagogical Growth Support: Training, coaching, modelling, and development of instructional systems.
Data-Informed Practice: Helping leaders build data cycles, analyse trends, and use evidence to inform decisions.
Whole-School Improvement Planning: From audit to implementation to embedding.
Our Promise
We aim to empower schools to:
Lead with clarity, purpose, and compassion
Build cultures that elevate both staff and students
Strengthen classroom practice through evidence-informed pedagogy
Use data to drive improvement meaningfully, not mechanically
Create environments where learning is joyful, rigorous, and inclusive
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