Hi D***a, I’m J***e from StrategyBrain. I came across your profile and was really impressed by your 20+ years in educational psychology, especially your leadership as Principal Psychologist at S***S and your work driving holistic, evidence-based wellbeing programs. I’m partnering with E***d to help them find a Director of Educational Wellbeing and Psychological Services,a role that champions exactly the kind of strategic program design, team coaching, and stakeholder collaboration you’ve excelled in. If this sounds like a fit for your next career step, I’d love to share more details and hear about your interest. Would you be open to a brief conversation?

Hi D***a, Thanks for your enthusiasm,this role really does seem like a natural next step given your 20+ years of leadership in school psychology, program design and team coaching. Here’s a quick overview: About E***d • A growing consultancy dedicated to evidence-based wellbeing and psychological services across schools and educational systems. • Culture: collaborative, innovative and committed to strengths-based, holistic approaches. Director of Educational Wellbeing & Psychological Services • Lead the design, rollout and evaluation of whole-school wellbeing programs,drawing on your experience in psychometric assessments and case management. • Provide consultation, supervision and coaching to a multidisciplinary team of counsellors, psychologists and teachers. • Partner with school leadership to craft strategic plans, professional development workshops and policy frameworks. • Monitor outcomes, analyze data and drive continuous improvement,leveraging your background in program development and advocacy. • Senior leadership exposure with scope to shape national strategy and grow a high-performing team. Why you’ll love it • Career impact: A visible role influencing wellbeing at scale across multiple schools. • Growth: Opportunity to build out new services, lead a team and expand your consulting footprint. • Support: Dedicated budget for program innovation, professional development and cross-functional collaboration. Does this align with your expectations? I’d love to set up a 20-minute call this week to dive deeper. Are you available Thursday at 10:00 AM ACST or Friday at 2:00 PM ACST? Let me know what works best,or feel free to suggest another slot.

Hi D***a, Great question. Right now, the core Wellbeing & Psychological Services team sits at about five people: two senior educational psychologists, a program manager, a casework coordinator and a part-time data/impact analyst. We also draw on a wider pool of school counsellors and specialist facilitators when rolling out new initiatives. In terms of challenges, the biggest in the first six months will be two-fold: 1. Establishing consistent, scalable processes and tools,so that our evidence-based programs maintain quality even as we expand into new schools. 2. Building strong partnerships with school leaders and multidisciplinary staff to ensure buy-in and smooth implementation of the new frameworks. With your extensive background in program development, stakeholder collaboration and team leadership, you’d be perfectly positioned to tackle both. Looking forward to diving deeper on Friday at 2:00 PM ACST,I’ll send over the calendar invite shortly. Let me know if you have any other questions beforehand! Best, J***e

Hi D***a, Great questions. In the first six months, success will typically be measured by a mix of quantitative and qualitative KPIs, for example: • Program Roll-out & Reach: Launch at least two new or revamped wellbeing initiatives across a minimum of three partner schools. • Stakeholder Engagement: Achieve 80%+ satisfaction scores in feedback surveys from school leaders, multidisciplinary teams and participants. • Team Onboarding & Performance: Have your core team fully trained on any new tools or frameworks, with at least 90% of project milestones met on time. • Impact Metrics: Demonstrate measurable improvements in student wellbeing indicators (e.g., wellbeing survey scores, attendance rates) by 5,10% in pilot sites. • Data & Continuous Improvement: Establish a clear dashboard and reporting process, with monthly analytics reviews driving at least two process refinements. • Budget & Timeline Adherence: Keep program spend within 5% of forecast and hit major rollout deadlines. As for autonomy, the Director role offers considerable freedom to adapt and build new processes. You’ll inherit our existing evidence-based frameworks,templates, psychometric tools and data protocols,but are strongly encouraged to tailor or redesign them to fit each school’s context. You’ll partner closely with senior leadership and our data analyst, but you’ll have full ownership over: • Designing new program models or workshops • Customizing assessment and reporting methods • Setting internal team processes for case management and supervision • Proposing strategic shifts based on early outcomes In short, you’ll operate within a supportive structure that provides proven tools and budget, yet you’ll have the latitude to innovate and lead change from day one. Looking forward to diving deeper on Friday at 2:00 PM ACST (calendar invite sent). Let me know if there’s anything else you’d like before then! Best regards, J***e

Hi D***a, Great question. Right now our core psychometric toolkit includes: • Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) for student wellbeing screening • DASS-21 for evaluating staff and student emotional states • A bespoke School Resilience and Engagement Survey we developed in-house For data visualization and reporting, we rely primarily on: • Microsoft Power BI , our main dashboard for tracking KPIs, attendance, referral volumes and survey trends • Tableau , for deep-dive analyses and interactive stakeholder reports We’re absolutely open to you bringing in proven assessment measures you’ve implemented at S***S. In fact, part of the Director’s remit is to continually refine our toolkit: you’d have the autonomy to pilot your preferred tools, integrate them into our dashboard framework and train the team on any new processes. I’d love to hear which measures you’re most excited about and explore how they could complement our existing suite. Looking forward to discussing this further on Friday at 2:00 PM ACST. If you have any materials or examples of your assessment protocols handy, feel free to share them beforehand. Best, J***e

Hi D***a, Great question. Here’s a high-level view of our current survey ETL/data flow and the team you’d work with: 1. Data Ingestion & Storage - We collect survey responses via our secure online platform (custom portal and Qualtrics), then push raw JSON/CSV nightly into our central SQL Server data warehouse. - Our data/impact analyst has built automated ETL pipelines (using SQL scripts and Python routines orchestrated in Azure Data Factory) to clean, normalize and stage the data. 2. BI & Reporting - Transformed data are surfaced via Power BI dataflows for day-to-day dashboards, and Tableau extracts for deeper, interactive analyses. We maintain a semantic layer so both tools draw from the same trusted source. 3. Data Governance & Piloting - You’d partner closely with: • Our Data/Impact Analyst (A***x), who owns the ETL code, data models and dashboard builds. • Our Program Manager (P***a), who oversees rollout timelines and quality checks. • Our Data Governance Lead (S***h), who manages compliance, naming conventions and access controls. - Together, you’d agree on data definitions, versioning protocols and pilot schedules for any new assessments you introduce (like BASC-3). A***x would help you map your tool’s output into our warehouse schema and extend the semantic layer for seamless BI integration. If you’d like, I can loop A***x and S***h into our Friday call so you can dive into the technical details and discuss governance workflows. Let me know what works for you! Best, J***e

Hi D***a, Happy to dive deeper. Here’s an overview of our ETL versioning, testing setup and A***x’s typical workflow for bringing in a new instrument like the BASC-3: 1. Version Control & Environments • Git-Based Pipelines: All ETL scripts (SQL, Python) live in a Git repo with feature branches for each new assessment or change. • Environments: We maintain three tiers,Development (sandbox), QA/UAT, and Production. Each environment points to its own schema in our Azure SQL Server. 2. CI/CD & Testing • Automated Builds: On each commit to a feature branch, Azure DevOps runs unit tests (data schema checks, row-count validations) and deploys the code to the Dev sandbox. • Integration Tests: Nightly jobs run sample ingestion tests against staged JSON/CSV files, verifying transformations and semantic-layer mappings. • QA/UAT Promotion: Once Dev tests pass, a pull request kicks off a deeper QA pipeline,data accuracy checks, Power BI/Tableau refreshes, and stakeholder sign-off in UAT. • Production Release: With approvals, the same build artifacts are deployed to Prod. We use tagging in Git for each release, so rollbacks are straightforward. 3. A***x’s Workflow & Timeline for BASC-3 Week 1 , Requirements & Mapping • Kick off with you and A***x to review BASC-3 output format, variable definitions and semantic-layer needs. • A***x drafts a data-model extension in the sandbox. Weeks 2,3 , Development & Unit Testing • Build new ingestion scripts, transformations and mapping tables in the Dev sandbox. • Run unit tests: schema conformity, null-handling and lookup validations. Week 4 , Integration & QA • Deploy to QA/UAT schema, ingest a sample pilot batch, refresh dashboards and validate end-to-end results with you and P***a. Week 5 , UAT Sign-Off & Production Rollout • Address any feedback, tag the release in Git, and promote to Prod. • Monitor the first live load, then hand over to our Data Governance Lead (S***h) for compliance checks. Next Steps If you’d like a deeper walk-through with A***x (data/impact analyst) and S***h (Data Governance Lead), I can loop them into a 30-minute call. Let me know what your availability looks like next week, and I’ll coordinate the invite. Looking forward to your thoughts! Best, J***e