Spokey Wheeler is a global leader in education innovation and transformation. With a diverse portfolio spanning continents and five decades, leading four schools and over 150 school reviews, he has left an indelible mark on the landscape of education. Working as a teacher and leader in England, Singapore and Germany, launching an education action zone, representing leaders on the national executive of a professional leadership association, becoming a school inspector and joining London Challenge as an inaugural consultant leader were great preparation for understanding how to lead learning in India.
He has held various leadership positions such as Director of Bespoke Solutions in the UK, Executive Director of Heritage International Schools in Gurgaon, CEO of KGVK Gurukul as part of Usha Martin’s CSR initiative, and as a School Leader in prestigious institutions such as Cornwall School, The Wavell School, and Burlington Danes Ark Academy in London. He has served as a Consultant on multiple large-scale projects for esteemed institutions such as the World Bank, Open University UK, and Nord Anglia, driving initiatives that redefine educational standards on a global scale.
Following setting up the first fast track academy in England with ARK, he became its international education adviser and came to India to launch a school leadership programme in Mumbai and Pune, where he discovered Kavita and Shishuvan. He served his apprenticeship in Jharkhand setting up a small CSR school network before Kavita and he founded Adhyayan.
Since founding Adhyayan, he has been working across 25 states and union territories with the most challenged to the most privileged schools in India, leading the international delivery team of the UKIERI School Leadership Development Programme which trained over 7,000 government school leaders across five states. He has also operationally supported the growth of The Open University’s TESS India as well as consulting with Kavita in India, Bangladesh and Zimbabwe, which have all enriched and informed his work.
Following three years leading Heritage International Xperiential School’s development as its Director, he has returned to Adhyayan with its single focus of realising the vision of ‘A good school for every child’. As the International Director and Co-Founder of Adhyayan Quality Education Services, he has brought to the fore groundbreaking approaches towards school improvement. He brings his passion and commitment towards quality to the schools he assesses and to the programmes run at Adhyayan.
