Education Leaders is the podcast, academy and community for school leaders worldwide who are tired of consultants who don't get it, and frameworks that fall apart the moment they touch a real building.
Most schools have been told the same story for twenty years: change is something you buy in. A consultancy. A framework. A new acronym. A different acronym.
It's exhausting. And it doesn't work.
Education Leaders started with a simple counter-argument: the people who know your school best are the ones who teach in it. The work of leadership isn't to import expertise, it's to lead the expertise you already have out of the corners it's been kept in.
Everything we make, the podcast, the Academy, the Circles, runs on that one idea. We don't sell certainty. We build the systems and the community that let your team do their best work.
Independent organisational coach, podcast host, and co-author of Change Starts Here (Routledge, 2025). Working with school leaders across Asia, Europe, the Middle East and the Americas, in both international and state schools.
Shane spent a decade in classrooms and middle and senior leadership, then served as a regional head before going independent in 2023. He's a CollectivEd Fellow and a TEDx speaker, and sits as a member of the EMCC, adhering to its Global Code of Ethics.
He works with leadership teams using the Double Diamond framework and has worked with leaders from 30+ countries. The Education Leaders podcast has reached number one in countries around the world. Those conversations are where Education Leaders began.
Education Leaders is where the products live, the podcast, the Academy, the Circles. Anyone in international education can engage here, regardless of whether they ever speak to Shane directly.
shaneleaning.com is where Shane works as a person, bespoke consulting engagements, speaking and keynotes, and the book. If you're looking for one-off work with leadership teams, you want that site.
Different doors. Same philosophy.
Shane's book with Efraim Lerner (Routledge, 2025) lays out the full philosophy and the Double Diamond approach for school leaders. Forty questions and real case studies from schools worldwide, built on one idea: the answers are usually already in your community. If you want the thinking behind the Academy in long-form, start here.
Shane works alongside brilliant organisations all over the world, formally and informally. We keep a page celebrating the ones we think deserve your attention.
Meet them →30 minutes. No agenda. We talk about where you are and whether anything we do would actually help.
