I spent years trying to fit kids into a system that wasn't designed for them.
Eventually I realised: the system needed changing, not the kids.
Started in a classroom.
Still there, in every way.
I've been in education for over 15 years, as an ESW and classroom support worker, and as a dad watching his own kids move through a system that doesn't always make room for the way they think. That experience is the engine behind everything I do.
Over the years I've sat with hundreds of students, parents and educators who felt out of step with a system that wasn't designed for them. What I kept hearing wasn't a lack of ability. It was a lack of the right conditions.
That experience is why I believe so strongly in honest, practical, non-judgmental support for educators, ESWs and families. Not theory. Not inspiration porn. Real tools, real conversations, real change.
Into the classroom
Started teaching and quickly realised the system wasn't built for every kind of learner.
Becoming an ESW
Moved into education support work: the most undervalued, underpaid, and under-celebrated role in schools.
Living it, not just teaching it
Years of working alongside neurodiverse learners, and raising his own kids, sharpened the conviction: this work is personal.
Different Is Normal launches
The podcast that needed to exist. Honest conversations about neurodiversity, education and life.
THRVHUB + AI for Teachers
Building the community and course content to help educators and families not just cope, but thrive.
