Our Team

Rosie has a psychology degree from Cambridge and an MBA from Henley Management College specialising in project management. She brings 20 years’ experience in educational leadership. She led one of Tony Blair’s most successful Education Action Zones, where her leadership was judged by independent school inspectors as ‘outstanding’. As a consultant in the UK, she advised the National College for School Leadership and the Innovation Unit on systems leadership. In Australia, she was brought in by AITSL to manage the launch of the Australian Principal Standard across all states and territories. Since 2013, she has pioneered our partnerships with Departments of Education across Australia and overseas, designing and overseeing leadership development programs for over 5000 education leaders.

Josh specialises in building leadership and learning capability at scale, ensuring organisations can navigate complexity and change with confidence. With a career spanning teaching, leadership development, learning design and digital learning, Josh has driven learning strategies that transform workforce capability, leadership pipelines, and digital education ecosystems. Josh holds two master’s degrees (Education Policy & Applied Linguistics) and has led projects across school systems, government, universities, and industry to develop evidence-based, high-impact learning programs. Josh’s expertise includes:

• Leadership development – Equipping leaders to thrive in complex environments
• Learning design & digital transformation – Creating scalable, accessible, and effective learning solutions
• Organisational learning strategy – Embedding workforce development and lifelong learning into organisational objectives.

With degrees in psychology and social sciences, Cathy offers over twenty years’ experience working in the fields of leadership development, psychometric assessment, organisation development, facilitation and counselling. Her professional background and well developed organisational skills enable her to program manage complex projects with ease.

Cathy is highly committed to ensuring that our many programs are delivered efficiently and effectively, and all participants receive a personalised service. Her professional approach makes her highly sought after by our clients. Cathy also brings a deep understanding of psychometric tools, with her own accreditations in Hogan, MBTI, Genos Ei and Ravens. She can advise schools on relevant programs and match them with suitable coaches.

Ross’s 40 years of service to Queensland schools gave him experience in both urban and rural schools across the state. His caring leadership style was appreciated by many, as he rose from assistant and deputy principal roles to principalship of a large state high school. His 25 years in educational leadership roles culminated with his work as assistant regional director for the North Coast region. Ross has a passion for supporting the next generation of school leaders to build their people leadership skills, and is committed to ensuring that everyone can access the right support, however remote or isolated their school is.

Gail has forged a lifelong career supporting Northern Territory schools. She pioneered Department of Education programs for schools to integrate technology and to improve literacy. Her most recent principalship saw her leading a school that was architecturally designed for co-teaching where she also introduced a hub for inclusive practices which became a model of best practice; the school’s enrolments doubled during her principalship. Gail’s leadership practice has been strongly influenced by her training in cognitive coaching.

Sarah brings 14 years of marketing experience across the training, arts, e-commerce, and hospitality sectors, specialising in digital marketing, brand strategy, and content marketing. Born in Germany and raised in Indonesia, Sarah later trained as a dancer in Singapore before settling in Australia. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Media and Communications from the University of Sydney. With a background as a performing arts teacher, she brings a lifelong passion for learning and development. Drawing on her global experience and creative roots, Sarah brings a thoughtful, purpose-driven lens to her work in raising awareness amongst education leaders of BTS Spark’s not-for-profit professional learning services.

Linz started her career in the newspaper industry moving on through roles in magazine design, advertising and varied design work before joining BTS. At BTS, Linz creates self-paced digital learning content on many platforms including Canvas, Momenta, Changr, BTS Coach and Sounding Board. She has been involved in the design of several hundred leadership programs for education clients and school systems, ensuring that online learning, coaching and workshop sessions are integrated into a seamless blended learning experience for participants. Adaptable, highly organised and capable of working under pressure to tight deadlines, Linz has a practical approach to problem solving. She enjoys the challenge of maximizing the user experience and seeing projects from concept right through to completion.

Jenny is an experienced leader, workforce planner, executive coach and strategist. She combines her experience in education with her studies in coaching and leadership to help others reach their potential. Jenny brings 30 years’ experience in educational leadership roles, including successful principalship and systems leadership roles. Jenny is accredited with the Institute of Executive Coaching and Leadership Performance Profile, holds a Certificate IV in Training and Assessment and is an Associate Certified Coach with the International Coach Federation. Jenny brings expertise in strengths based coaching, organisational psychology, narrative coaching, integral system and goal theory, crucial conversations, brain theory and immunity to change.

Jenny is an experienced leader, workforce planner, executive coach and strategist. She combines her experience in education with her studies in coaching and leadership to help others reach their potential. Jenny brings 30 years’ experience in educational leadership roles, including successful principalship and systems leadership roles. Jenny is accredited with the Institute of Executive Coaching and Leadership Performance Profile, holds a Certificate IV in Training and Assessment and is an Associate Certified Coach with the International Coach Federation. Jenny brings expertise in strengths based coaching, organisational psychology, narrative coaching, integral system and goal theory, crucial conversations, brain theory and immunity to change.

Harley is an experienced and high level, goal-oriented executive coach and facilitator. He has an international business and marketing leadership background, with previous responsibility for budgets of up to $250m. Harley has been coaching with us since 2007 and also runs his own coaching and counselling practice. He holds professional qualifications in both coaching and counselling, as well as a Masters in Adult Education. In addition to his coaching work, he is an experienced facilitator who consistently delivers powerful workshops on a range of topics including Mentoring, Difficult Conversations and Coaching Skills. Harley’s work has spanned education departments in NSW, Victoria, South Australia and WA.

Helen is highly sought after for her deep expertise in how to apply coaching to the school context, as she can draw on her experience as both a school principal and as a professional leadership coach. Helen’s passion for making a difference to children’s lives was the driving force behind her successful career in education. As principal, she led the merger of two neighbouring schools before moving to work for several years in regional office.
Determined to build the capability of adults more effectively, Helen qualified as a Professional Certified Coach with the International Coach Federation (ICF). She has since amassed over 1000 hours of coaching experience and has facilitated workshops regularly for over 20 years. 
In 2017 Helen was voted by fellow coaches to serve as President of her local ICF state chapter.

David brings over 30 years of experience as a teacher, leader trainer and coach to his coaching and facilitation style. The professional experience he has gained enables him to bring an understanding of the drives, needs and concerns of school leaders and teachers. David has a natural ability to build trust and rapport with participants that encourages self-reflection, accountability, and the courage to change. He creates a deep and trusting relationship where participants can safely address core focus areas and identify resolutions to enable better outcomes.

Diana is an experienced professional leadership coach and facilitator with over 20 years dedicated to the principles of contemporary neuroscience and human potential with a focus on effective and sustainable leadership. A Master Certified Coach with the International Coaching Federation, Diana has over 2,500 coaching hours and is a highly energised specialist in leadership development and coaching. With the ability to build rapport and gain trust quickly Diana is able to adapt to the needs of the client bringing a ‘challenger’ and ‘supporter’ face to her coaching sessions.

Throughout her 20 years Ingrid has coached executives and senior leaders from almost every industry across Australia, the UK and Europe, including education, corporate, government and not-for-profit (or for-purpose) organisations. Ingrid’s ability to connect with people while offering sound strategies for coaching is invaluable to continuous self-improvement through learning and she always brings new thinking to her work. She uses approaches and techniques from systemic coaching, NLP, neuroscience and uses creative tools to support transformative learning and change.

Laurenne enjoys coaching leaders at all levels, from self-leaders to the executive level. She works with people to determine what’s important for them, both in terms of results and in how they show up along the journey. She believes coaching not only contributes to an individual’s personal and professional development, but also has a positive flow on impact on their teams, direct reports, organisations, friends, family, and society at large. Laurenne’s approach is warm, collaborative, and willing to challenge. Through her career she also has worked as a university tutor, taught students in a Professional Year program, taught English to adults in Italy, and coached and trained teachers, academic and non-academic staff at schools and universities to develop the skills, capabilities, and confidence required to navigate the relationships and educational environments they engage in.