Culture
is a school’s superpower.
How do you craft it, capture it, futureproof it and make it accessible to current and future leaders and teams?
With a fit-for-purpose process and platform in the hands of a skilled and experienced coach who has lived and led school culture from within.
We help communities, leaders and educators build resilient schools, so that all students successfully transition to life.
OUR WORK
focuses on developing resilient, healthy, creative and successful schools and the people who make them so.
OUR APPROACH
assists and supports education leadership teams and frontline staff as they meet the demands of delivering high class student performance and achievement.
Your digital cultural repository.
THE PLATFORM
The School Culture Operating System (SCOS) is a secure, sophisticated cloud-based platform keeping you on track and systemising your school’s priorities. It becomes the whole team’s one source of truth, an organic digital cultural repository.
When our method meets your mission.
THE PROCESS
The Cultures of Excellence Method involves reflection, processes and tools to help school leaders and staff be the best they can be.
Your journey to culture excellence.
THE PEOPLE
Your Coach/Colleague applies the method, working alongside you to support you and your school on and throughout your journey. They’ll teach you to manage the platform as you collaboratively populate it and apply the learnings and insights from the engagement.
At the completion of the coaching journey, the platform becomes yours to maintain and nurture ongoing and remains the central source of truth for all things leadership across your school.
We commit to.
CHALLENGE
Challenging the status quo of education and staying apolitical
BUILD
Building and sustaining the organisational culture that best embeds and successions strategy and leadership.
EMPOWER
Empowering community voice and ensuring the equity of opportunities for all students.
SUCCESSION
Using technologies to empower, sustain and succession best educational practice and culture.
Meet the team.
Scott Harris
Seed Founder & Coach / Colleague
Scott is the Seed Founder of Cultures of Excellence and has an extensive range of experience in the education and business sectors.
Scott has been a Director of Schools across a vast region in Western Australia and also a Director of Leadership nationally where he supported the growth and development of leadership, strategy, organisational culture, coaching and professional learning for schools and teams.
As a recognised and successful Principal, Deputy Principal, Curriculum Writer and Teacher, Scott’s experience in educational settings is vast and sought after when supporting deep and long-term successful change in schools and teams. Add to this over 15 years of coaching in the education and business sector with executives and employees in a range of positions and teams, it is no wonder the coaching aspect of our work and platform is also sought after. Family, friends, and personal wellbeing are a key part of and focus of Scott’s life and this will always be part of his conversation and any work he does with and for you.
Tristan Bettridge
Founder & Leader of Cultures of Excellence
Tristan is a Founder and the Leader of Cultures of Excellence. He has a unique skill set with experience in both the business sector and the education system.
An accountant by qualification, Tristan specialized in the performance improvement and business growth for privately held businesses before transitioning to the education system. Once in the education sector, he found his passion was in the upper primary school teaching, specifically leading the ICT space. His experience in the processes and systems of both businesses and schools’ places him perfectly to support the growth and successioning of your school.
Tristan is motivated by the recognition of the unprovided need in our education system. The impact that is possible for every child in every classroom Australia wide with greater school stewardship, resulting in excellence school culture is immeasurable. His personal values of Family, Trust, Humour and Accountability underpin every relationship he enters into, with a desire to get the best result attainable while having as much fun as possible in the process.
Glenn Scarlett
Seed Founder of Cultures of Excellence
Glenn is a founder and owner of culture of excellence, he has extensive experience working across private and public sector businesses throughout Australian and Internationally
Experienced people development and organisation performance professional who has worked for and consulted with a number of the key mining houses throughout Australia, Africa and the South Pacific. Glenn has led and been a senior team member in several major business transformations focusing primarily on operational/people system and management design and deployment, lean operating system integration as well as managing operating readiness streams for start up mining operations. He has a proven track record of effectively delivering outcomes within complex and resistant cultures. Prior to transitioning to the resource sector Glenn spend several years working in the public sector as a social worker with the department of children services and corrections and prisons. Glenn has also obtained territory qualifications – Bachelor of Social Work and Masters of Industrial Relations
Glenn’s motivation and focus has always been about supporting people and businesses to be the best they can be, and to help deliver workplace cultures that encourage people to strive to achieve their own life goals.
Gabe Enslin
Founding Partner of Cultures of Excellence
Gabe is a Founding Partner of Cultures of Excellence and the Co-Founder of adapt. As a challenging student due to a high need for stimulation, Gabe spent many days in the principal's office. He grew up in schools who often didn't know how to deal with kids like him. Gabe experienced first hand, the detrimental academic and psychological impact on him as a young person when school leadership and cultures were not optimal.
He also had the privilege of knowing good school leaders and teachers and learnt how this could help him and other kids like him thrive. Through his own journey, and observing his mother as a Chemistry teacher who had an incredible ability to help students flourish and achieve their best, he developed a real passion for helping school leaders develop the best possible environment for students to excel and transition to life.
Today, Gabe helps SME owners build resilient and sustainable businesses with thriving cultures at adapt. He also supports the Cultures of Excellence team in elevating their product offering for school leaders, and building the community of like minded operators in education.
Our coach partners.
Kylie McLerie
Director of Collective Culture Consultancy
With a proven track record in leadership development and fostering thriving work cultures, Collective Culture Consultancy brings a wealth of experience and a passion for empowering individuals and teams to achieve their full potential, creating cultures that everyone wants to be a part of. Kylie has done some incredible work across multiple business and schools this year and we are thrilled to have her as part of the CoE Coaching Family.
Kylie has a passion and highly developed skills in building sustainable cultural change that breeds success. Recruiting the right people is a starting point, retaining them because they feel a sense of connectedness to the workplace is where the hard work comes in. Whether it's leadership development, cultural transformation, or team empowerment, Collective Culture Consultancy is dedicated to helping individuals and organizations unlock their true potential and thrive in their unique cultural environments.
Connect with Collective Culture Consultancy today to explore how they can elevate your team's culture and drive success!
“How do we work together at work, to be the best at our work?”
“I’m thoroughly enjoying the coaching process. Scott guides and focusses me towards what is necessary to meet my goals. It’s greatly influenced my trajectory for 2023”
– Wickham Primary School
“The change in the school culture has been phenomenal. We are now able to collaborate on the work that really matters rather than sorting out issues arising from disagreements, misunderstandings and miscommunication.”
– Lake Gwelup Primary School
“Working together with Cultures of Excellence has amplified our school community’s capacities as a multi-award winning school; empowering opportunities to unpack and expand our culturally responsive innovative teaching and learning programs.”
– Marble Bar Primary School
