Engagements

Advisory

School admissions, relocation, curriculum planning, university — Oxbridge and Ivy admissions included. Executive and family-office education sits here too. The whole trajectory, held by one adviser.

ShapeFamily-wide.
Typical horizon five years and beyond, prep school to university.

How it works

Four things, each with a cost.

One adviser holds the whole picture

The same person who knows the student knows the schools you are choosing between, the curriculum you are moving away from, and what the next four years have to look like. Nothing is handed between people who have never met the family.

Decisions in the order they actually arrive

A relocation changes the curriculum question, which changes the school question, which changes what has to be taught this year. Advisory exists because those are one decision, not four, and they are usually taken by four different people.

It covers the family, not one child

Siblings at different stages, in different systems, sitting different papers. Executive and family-office education sits here too.

It is a long horizon on purpose

Five years and beyond, prep school to university. Advice given once at the point of crisis is not advisory, it is triage.

Where this one sits

One subject, one tutor, or the whole trajectory.

TYPICAL HORIZON1 TERM1 YEAR5 YEARSTuitionONE SUBJECTPlacementFULL CURRICULUMAdvisoryFAMILY-WIDEprep school to university

When this is not the right engagement.

If what you need is teaching now rather than a plan for the next five years, start with a subject tutor and come back to this when the immediate problem is handled. We would rather say that now than halfway through a first conversation.

No published rateWhat an engagement costs depends on the student, the subjects and the hours — so we quote after the first conversation, not before it.

The next step is a conversation, not a contract.

Tell us about the student. We will tell you honestly whether we are the right practice — and if we are not, who is.

What happens nextOne conversation, thirty minutes, with someone who will actually run the engagement. No sales call, no proposal deck.