MSB
Welcome to MSB
MSB exists to make space for what matters most – people. In a sector that can sometimes feel transactional, isolated, and predominantly driven by performance, we choose a different path: one rooted in courage, curiosity, and connection.
We partner with people in education who want more than the status quo. People who want to lead, teach, and live in a way that always feels real
Human
Our story began with a simple but powerful idea: education should always feel fully human. Sometimes it does – but too often, it can get lost beneath pressure and pace. We believe it can always be better. So we make space for better to happen.
After years of coaching and working in schools, we saw a pattern: the more people gave, the more they lost touch with themselves. We created MSB to change that. To be a place where leaders, educators, and school communities could rediscover the joy of being human together.
We don’t offer cookie-cutter programmes or one-size-fits-all solutions. We listen. We walk beside you. We ask better questions. So you can find your own extraordinary answers.
What we believe in
We believe schools shape the future. We believe people shape schools. We believe coaching, when done with integrity, can change lives. We believe in making space to be heard, to grow, and to lead with heart. We believe in humanity, even when it feels missing. We believe you deserve extraordinary.
Some of our values
Integrity
To be whole, listen to head, heart and intuition; to be honest and do as we say we will do; to bring our integrated being, thinking and doing to our work and our working relationships.
Adventure
To explore and create leading edge solutions, to challenge ourselves and each other, comfort with discomfort, to be courageous to see things differently and pull the old up by the root only where needed, to seek adventure.
Conversation
To be in partnership and seek connections through relational conversation, to turn ideas and assumptions over, to be approachable, accessible – always meeting people where they are.
Commitment
To bring these values into everything we do.
We now have the tools to both support us as a team, and to pass on to others within the school.
Hayley Wilson
Kellett School, Hong Kong
We were given the space to reflect on how we want to work as a team. To see each other as people first.
Hayley Wilson
Kellett School, Hong Kong
When you help someone discover their own capacity for growth, then witness them helping others do the same, that's when you truly understand the power…
Vicky Juett – Assistant Head of Secondary
BIS Abu Dhabi
The amazing thing with coaching is that... if you throw yourself into it, it works. It never fails to work.
Chris Bromham – Principal
ICS Madrid
The power of coaching is transformative for our students and our teachers.
Michelle Stroman – Director of Talent Development
Dulwich College International
I am a great believer in professional coaching. As a school leader we have little control at what lands on our desk or enters our…
Mark Leppard MBE – Headmaster
The British School Al Khubairat Abu Dhabi
At a time when school leaders are facing the ongoing challenges of a VUCA world, Principled is an insightful and instructional guide to developing as…
David Ingram – Head of College
Dulwich College Shanghai Puxi
... highly valuable in providing a simple yet powerful framework (Thinking, Being, Doing) to gain deeper insights into one's own leadership. Practical tools and strategies…
Marianne Yong-Macdonald – Group Head, Teacher professional learning and student opportunities
International Schools Partnership Limited
The strength of this book is that it recognizes and starts with the understanding that leaders come in all shapes and sizes, with different skills,…
Colm Flanagan – Head of School
Seoul Foreign School
The power of coaching is transformative for our students and for our teachers.
Michelle Stroman – Director of Talent Development
Dulwich College International
We have already seen the positive impact of the training in many aspects of school life, for example in the development of leadership skills, in…
Liz Miller – Deputy Headteacher
Dubai English Speaking School
My coaching has been transformative. I have valued them so much that we are extending 1:1 coaching across all DH and AH in the College.…
David Ingram – Head of College
Dulwich College Shanghai Puxi
I feel that I have grown, am more confident and have found a degree of ‘peace’ within myself that has given me more clarity, objectivity…
Orla Brady – Group Director
Education in Motion
Really excellent support through challenging times and providing time to step back and reflect
Clair Harrington-Wilcox – Head of Junior School
Tanglin Trust School Singapore
Leadership Mastermind is exactly that; the course drives you to think about leadership by exploring and unlocking authenticity in a creative and safe space.
Indira Purushothaman – Associate Headteacher
Crest Academy
Overall, I’ve become more confident with issues and they are no longer a burden for me. Quite simply, the dark I was facing in that…
Julia Mortimer – Headteacher
St. Bartholomew’s
After the coaching I feel that the problems that I face, are still there, but have reached a manageable size.
Phil Clear – Head of Senior School
Dulwich College Yangon
For me it was amazing. MSB have created a professional development institution that people can bring leadership challenges to and can be either affirmed or…
Dr Richard Eaton – Director
Berlin International School
Gill is a natural at coaching. She is kind, caring and generous with praise. Her championing of my goals really allowed me to feel encouraged…
– Executive
International School Group
Coaching enabled me to articulate thoughts that had not been expressed before. It has had a deep and profound impact on my life; I have…
– Principal
International School
Making Stuff Better and the MSB Network is a lot more than coaching, leadership and effectiveness, although it does those things extremely well. It also…
d'Arcy Lunn – Group Head of Sustainability
Dulwich College International
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