Meet Our Principal and CEO
With over two decades of leadership spanning HR and education, our CEO brings a lifelong passion for developing others. As a natural networker, he excels at building collaborative relationships with diverse stakeholders to drive shared success.
His aptitude for education manifested remarkably early. At just 15 years old in 2006, mentored by his head of year Mrs Young, he independently set up a textiles department at his former primary school, designed curricula, and forged links with a local Arts University. As the first in his family to attend university, he knows firsthand the hurdles students face. This lived experience drives his ultimate mission: to tear down traditional barriers and ensure that world-class education and professional skills are open to everyone, regardless of their background or starting point.
Driven by this unwavering belief, he founded Gouldings Global Academy, part of the Gouldings Education Group. Personally heading up the Business Academy, he uses his extensive curriculum expertise to design programmes tailored for today and the future working world. His entrepreneurial journey was built in close collaboration with the Institute of Commercial Management (ICM), aligning the academy with rigorous global standards. He is supported in his strategy by a trusted personal coach who was one of his former secondary school teachers.
Holding professional membership with the Education & Training Foundation (ETF), he is deeply committed to sector-leading teaching standards. Under his hands-on leadership, Gouldings equips learners with the exact pathway they need, whether for university progression in the UK, Canada, and Australia, or for lifelong international career success.