Hello — I’m Laura.

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I run a working pedagogy and leadership business under my own name. Two strands: LM Education for the practitioners and parents working with primary-age and Early Years children, and LM Coaching & Leadership for the heads, deputies, trustees and nursery owners who carry the buildings.

The work is books, courses, coaching, consultancy and resources. I write daily, teach weekly, consult monthly, and speak when asked.

The Credentials

BA(Hons), MSc, Fellow of the Chartered College of Teaching (FCCT), Fellow of the Chartered Management Institute (FCMI), Chartered Teacher (Leadership).

Researched parental engagement in primary settings.

Co-presented Building School Culture at the TDAPE conference with the inimitable Kate Owbridge. Featured speaker at sector events on observation, the key person approach, high challenge low threat, maintaining mental health whilst working in education and leading change in Early Years.

Why I Started This

I never fell out of love with the job.

After twenty-four years of teaching and leading — including multisite group leadership across primary and nursery — I built this business to put what I know in the hands of more people: practitioners who want to do the work well, leaders who want to lead well, and parents who deserve plain English about what good practice looks like.

The brand sits under my own name because the credibility is personal, not corporate. If you work with me, you work with me — not a faceless brand.

What I Believe

That leadership in education is mostly about creating the conditions in which other people can do their best work.

That children deserve adults whose nervous systems are settled.

That parents deserve sector-real answers, not platitudes.

That “loving the children you teach” is an underused phrase.

That primary classrooms thrive when teachers are trusted to teach — not surveilled.

That headship is a craft you grow into across years, not a job you start on day one.

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Work with me

If any of this lands - there’s a discovery call link below. 25 minutes. Free. No pressure.

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