Best-selling author of Change Starts Here, organisational coach and host of the chart-topping Education Leaders podcast. I work with leadership teams who've had enough of change that doesn't stick. Based in Shanghai. Working with schools worldwide.
Schools everywhere are tired of change that doesn't stick. Another consultancy arrives with another acronym, and a year later not much is different. I don't think that's down to your staff. Most of what you need is already in your community. Nobody has asked for it properly yet.
My job is to help you lead it out.
I facilitate your leadership team through the Double Diamond, helping you define what really matters and build a change your whole community owns.
Explore consultancyConfidential, EMCC-aligned coaching for heads and senior leaders. Someone outside the building to think the hard decisions through with.
Explore coachingTalks and workshops on inside-out change, multilingual learning, and building confident leadership teams. I'm a TEDx speaker, and I try to leave staff with something they'll actually use the following week.
Explore speaking
A chart-topping podcast, leadership courses and coaching circles for people leading in schools worldwide, including the Leadership Intensive, my 10-week programme for individual leaders.
Visit educationleaders.co
The non-profit I co-founded with Efraim Lerner. Open-source research, the 40 questions from the book, a free library and a forum for practitioners.
Visit workcollaborative.com levers.studioA practice room for school leaders that I'm building with my co-creator, JP Adamson. Short research reads, rehearsals for hard conversations, and one small thing to try each Monday. Opening in 2027 with a few founding schools.
Visit levers.studioWhat if everything your school needed was right in front of you?
My book with Efraim Lerner (Routledge, 2025) lays out the full philosophy and an adapted Double Diamond framework, structured around 40 questions and case studies from real schools. It shows how to replace top-down directives with change your community drives and sustains.
Like so many of the best books, Change Starts Here has both universal and personal application.
Jim Knight · Founder & CEO, Instructional Coaching Group
Working with Shane helped our team to consider the change that is inherent in education, and to lead it rather than be led by it.
Kent Wetzel · Leadership Development Specialist, Frederick County Public Schools, USA
Shane's approach is thoughtful and engaging. I highly recommend Shane to any school or organisation seeking a strategic, research-informed, and human-centred approach to professional learning and leadership development.
Dr Tamara Yuill Proctor · Head of Educational Research & Professional Learning, United World College, China
Shane's professional expertise and suggestions have been instrumental in guiding my academic decisions, and he consistently challenged me to grow as a school leader. It was a pleasure to witness the positive impact it had on our students and faculty.
Jakub Peciak · International Principal, NAS Shenzhen, China
Shane spent the day focusing on how teachers would grow in the coming year and I must say that all staff members had a lot to take away. The staff really enjoyed Shane's presentation methods as well as his openness and expertise in his field.
Trevor Godwin · Head of Upper Senior School, Sedbergh School Fuzhou, China
Organisational coach, author, and host of the Education Leaders podcast. Based in Shanghai, working with schools across Asia, Europe, the Middle East and the Americas, both international and local.
I spent a decade in classrooms and in middle and senior leadership, then served as a regional head of teacher development before going independent in 2023. I'm a CollectivEd Fellow and a TEDx speaker, and a member of the EMCC, adhering to its Global Code of Ethics.
I work with leadership teams using the Double Diamond framework, and have worked with leaders from more than 30 countries. The Education Leaders podcast grew out of those conversations and has reached number one in education charts around the world.
30 minutes, no agenda. We talk about where you are and whether anything I do would actually help. If it's not a fit, I'll tell you, and point you somewhere that is.