Speaker and educator working at the centre of healthcare, education, and wellbeing.
Helping educators, healthcare professionals, parents, and leaders understand behaviour, build genuine connection, and support young people to thrive.
Jess spent over a decade as a paediatrician in the NHS, understanding what children and families face in healthcare systems. Then in 2019, she retrained as a primary school teacher, and that combination shaped everything she does now.
Healthcare and education each offer a different window into a child’s world. Jess’s experience in both fields has shown her what becomes possible when we bring those perspectives together and see the whole child.
She helps professionals and parents move beyond labels, see behaviour as communication, and create environments where young people genuinely belong.
Supporting educators and school leaders to understand how young people's brains work, navigate complex conversations with families, and build inclusive classrooms. Jess translates research into practice. Jess translates research into practice and offers practical strategies to support children to thrive.
Working with healthcare professionals and organisational leaders to create psychologically safer systems. When adults are thriving, young people thrive too.
Helping parents and carers make sense of complex information, feel less alone, and find practical strategies grounded in both evidence and real life.
“The feedback was so overwhelmingly positive! Jess' talk was the most mentioned webinar of the day.”
“Jess was a show-stopper, bringing utter, raw honesty mixed with genuine lived and living experience of mental ill-health to challenge her audience.”
“Her unique perspective as a trained paediatrician, teacher and parent, combined with her wisdom, warmth and fantastic delivery has been so appreciated by all attendees.”
If you're an educator seeking practical strategies, a healthcare leader thinking about culture, a parent looking for support, or an organisation wanting to shift perspective, Jess would love to hear from you.