After reading Education and English Literature at Homerton College, Cambridge, I began my career as a teacher. Inspired my experiences in the classroom, I returned to Cambridge a few years later, this time to Clare College, to complete a Master’s degree and then a PhD, both in Education. My doctoral research examined the experiences of families navigating systems when a child is struggling at school, and explored how meaningful partnerships between parents and professionals can be established. Since then, I have held a range of inclusion and advisory roles across educational settings and sectors. The last eight years of my in-school career were at Harrow School and for much of this time, I led their provision for boys with additional needs.
In 2020, I founded Speros Consultancy, a bespoke education and neurodiversity consultancy based in London but serving families worldwide. This brought together my academic learning, my professional experience and life-long commitment to enabling young people to thrive in life and learning.
As an education and neurodiversity specialist, my work includes supporting international families to navigate educational questions, challenges and dilemmas and spans neurodiversity guidance and advocacy related to home and school, designing personalised home learning programmes, mentoring support for young people at school and university, family guidance, and working in coordination with other leading specialists.
Families seek my guidance on a wide range of educational matters. These include:
• Thinking and learning differences and how best to understand and support these at school or university.
• Anxiety related to attending schooling
• Their child is struggling in tests and exams
• Complex situations where it is unclear how to move forward
• Situations where mental health challenges and neurodivergence intersect.
• Boarding school contexts
I have a particular specialism and passion for working with autistic young people (especially girls and young women), and those with AUDHD, ADHD or attentional differences.
Alongside my private work, I often write about education, neurodiversity and wellbeing to enable better understanding and support for young people and families.
