Services
We are a specialist educational leadership search and development company investing in leaders today and for the future.
Our team of experienced consultants bring deep knowledge and insight across a diverse range of services including Leadership Search, Strategic Planning, and Leadership Development.
Leadership Search
HCA’s experienced senior educators and leadership search professionals have a reputation for sustaining positive relationships within the education sector across Australia. This has resulted in hundreds of successful leadership appointments.
We work closely with Boards, Principals and school leaders to provide a rigorous yet streamlined process, thereby ensuring the right fit for both the successful candidate and the school.
HCA uses the Australian Professional Standard for Principals and the Leadership Profiles to assess and benchmark leaders in the Education sector. We are particularly adept at building high performance teams. Our investment in the development of leaders ensures that all candidates are provided with specific feedback to facilitate their growth as leaders.
Hutton Consulting was an outstanding partner to support the recruitment process for the next leader (principal) of our School.
As an independent co-educational School we were keen to talk to a range of high quality candidates. Fiona Hutton and her team gave us that range and made the selection process as smooth as possible, with a sensitivity and care that allowed us to feel like a part of their team. Our thanks to Hutton Consulting for all their support, knowledge and insight into our unique context and for the high level of service that restored my faith in recruitment!
- CRAIG TEGEL
Chair - Hills Grammar School
Strategic Planning
Founded on research and analysis, we work with Executive Leadership teams and Boards to define and develop their strategic vision and implementation milestones.
We bring our expertise and knowledge of best practice from both industry and education to the conversations, and continually add value by sharing our insights into the future of education from a national and global perspective.
We create an environment of openness, trust and respect so that all participants can engage and share ideas, challenge assumptions and align thinking around the best way forward.
Through a facilitated four-step process we work with leadership teams in the school to generate the roadmaps, agree on deliverables, assign accountabilities, and set priorities and deadlines.
EREA NSW Colleges Ltd selected Hutton Consulting Australia to support the development of a strategic direction for our newly incorporated entity.
HCA's consultants genuinely sought to understand our culture and context and our desired outcomes to ensure they were able to facilitate productive days. The expansive knowledge of different educational settings that HCA brought to the strategy discussions assisted the EREA NSW Colleges Board and School-based teams to think beyond their own contexts and imagine our shared future in our new governance structure.
I will definitely use HCA’s services again based on the professionalism, responsiveness and flexibility they showed in this first engagement.
- MAURA MANNING
Director of NSW Colleges and CEO
Edmund Rice Education Australia NSW Colleges Ltd
Leadership Development
HCA has combined its deep understanding and experience in the education sector with expertise in the design and delivery of contemporary leadership approaches.
360 Degree Reviews
Our 360 Degree Review process provides feedback and advice considering the professional practice lenses of the Australian Professional Standard for Principals and the Leadership Profile. We work with principals and senior leaders to develop personalised professional growth plans that support them in their unique context.
Mentoring
The difference between mentoring and coaching is often blurred, with some seeing the terms as mutually interchangeable. A mentor, however, is generally seen as someone able to provide guidance and expertise from having their own experience in the role. As former Principals and executive leaders with senior leadership experience in schools and education settings, we provide mentoring programs for Principals, and Senior Leaders.
The Anglican Schools Corporation engaged Hutton Consulting Australia to conduct 360-degree Principal reviews across the twenty schools in the Corporation.
We have been encouraged by HCA’s focus on growth and development of each Principal.
The level of service and depth of feedback has been insightful for each Principal involved in this process and for their governors as they also seek to support the Principal’s ongoing professional development and leadership growth. We have no hesitation in commending this service.
- PETER FOWLER
Chief Executive Officer
The Anglican Schools Corporation