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Whitehead, Lee & Associates Co., Ltd.
Business-education Consultancy for International Schools
Establishment
Whitehead, Lee & Associates Co. Ltd is a global educational consultancy with its Head Office in Thailand and representation in China, UK, the USA, Canada, Australia, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Japan and South Korea. As a highly qualified education consultancy company, our directors have been involved in international and private education provision for years. That will hugely helpful in guiding the services of our company. We specialize in providing high-quality, bespoke, business-education solutions for owners and leaders of international and private schools around the world. And we offer education consulting business services. Furthermore, we furnish capable consultants for opening schools. Therefore, we provide you with the most experienced services and solutions for management consulting education at Whitehead.
Main Services
When you connect with WLA, you immediately connect with the world of international and private education and, via WLA networks, with literally thousands of educational professionals across the globe. Whether your operational and business needs are guidance on a new-start-up city kindergarten; seeking investors/investment for your existing international school; undertaking a safeguarding/inclusivity audit; developing online curricula; or simply wondering how to maximize your school’s bottom line without compromising quality and reputation, WLA will likely have a solution.
The Cooperative-style Organizational Structure of WLA
WLA is a 21st century-style business cooperative, with all members (Associates and Directors) contributing and benefiting on a transparent and equitable level and in a way that draws most effectively on professional knowledge and skill sets. The cooperative-style organizational structure of WLA enables us to bring experienced and skilled international educational specialists into your organization in a way which is both cost and educationally effective.
We speak over a dozen languages and have experience working as educationalists in most every East and South East Asian country, plus the UK, Canada, and the USA. We have taught in leading schools, colleges and universities around the world. Many of us have established our own international schools, especially in Asia. We firmly understand the complex relationship between sound business practices and quality educational provision.
Our Team
WLA Directors and Associates are first and foremost international educationalists. But they are also entrepreneurs and business people, men and women who understand that private and international schools must safeguard their bottom line without compromising academic excellence and reputation. The world of international schooling and private education is vastly different from what it was pre-COVID-19. There are new pressures on school owners and leaders. But there are also new opportunities. To handle those pressures, even the most experienced professionals sometimes need a critical friend to guide them through the options. Likewise, grasping the opportunities requires insight into and understanding of different choices and assessing them objectively. WLA can help you through this complex decision-making process.
Because the WLA team of Directors and Associates have, in total, many decades experience as international and private school owners, leaders and investors you can be assured of receiving the highest level of professional guidance and advice no matter what your needs. WLA offers a comprehensive range of services including investors and investment strategies; financial management; online and classroom curriculum development; learning technology and design; building and refurbishment; human resource and personnel management; leadership training and mentoring; digital marketing in China and Asia; new-owner start-up guidance and support.
A specialism of WLA is Canadian International School affiliations, investment and curricula. We have close links with several Canadian provincial governments and their ministries of education. Opportunities currently exist for investment in new and existing Canadian international schools across China and South East Asia. Interested parties should contact us directly.
Whatever your need, problem or challenge, you can be assured WLA will have a specialist who can help you resolve it.
Leadership can be a lonely, isolating experience, especially in today’s complex, contingent, social-media-driven world. Every school team, every school leader, and every school owner, needs neutral, informed, objective, professional guidance and advice at some point. WLA can provide you with the overview and insight that might make all the difference between success and failure, and which can take your school to the next level.
- Link with WLA, and give your school, college or university that added layer of professionalism and expertise necessary to enable your organization to handle change and challenges in today’s dynamic and unpredictable business-education environment.
- Link with WLA, a consultancy service designed to provide bespoke business-education solutions and opportunities for International and private schools anywhere in the world.
- Link with WLA, because everyone needs someone by their side sometimes.
- Link with WLA, because it makes sense, financially and educationally.
- Link with WLA, because we know business as well as we know education.
Directors and Associates of WLA
WLA consists of two founding directors, Dr. Stephen Whitehead and Dr. Patrick Lee and a large team of highly experienced Associates, educational professionals with many years of experience in international and private education provision.
WLA Directors
Dr. Stephen M. Whitehead
Dr. Stephen M. Whitehead is co-Founder and Director of the international school consultancy, Whitehead, Lee & Associates, Co. Ltd (Thailand and Canada). Stephen is an internationally renowned educational practitioner and academic. He is the lead writer and co-editor for the Educational Digest International publication. He specializes in inclusivity training, leadership development, and global socio-political-cultural insights for educational and private organizations.
Dr. Patrick Lee
Dr Patrick Lee is co-Founder and Director of the international school consultancy, Whitehead, Lee & Associates, Co. Ltd (Thailand and Canada). Patrick has held several senior leadership positions in the 27 years with the Delia Group of Schools, Hong Kong. He joined the Delia Group of Schools in 1993 as a teacher and became the Principal of Delia School of Canada in 2001. In 2013, Patrick was appointed Director for all the Delia Group of Schools (Delia School of Canada, Delia School of Canada (Kowloon East), Delia Memorial School (Hip Wo), Delia Memorial School (Yuet Wah), Delia Memorial School (MR), Delia Memorial School (Glee Path), Delia Memorial School (Broadway), Delia English Primary School and Kindergarten, Delia English Primary School (Man Kiu), and Springview Kindergarten).
Our Associates
OUR PROMISE
Enabling business-education solutions for international and private schools around the world.
Whitehead, Lee & Associates Co. Ltd is a global consultancy which operates as a 21st century cooperative. As one of the best education consultancy companies, we specialise in providing business-education development solutions and opportunities for International and private schools anywhere in the world. We offer a range of services including investors/ investment strategies; financial guidance; online and classroom curriculum development; learning technology and design; building and refurbishment advice; human resource and personnel management; leadership training and mentoring; organisational maximisation; digital marketing in China and Asia; Canadian international school affiliations; and new-owner start-up guidance and support. Contact us for a free initial consultancy.
Whitehead, Lee & Associates is uniquely placed to provide you and your educational organization with comprehensive professional guidance and assistance in most any area of educational provision. We can do this because our organizational structure is based on a cooperative model composed of high-quality educational professionals from around the globe. Whitehead, Lee & Associates consists of two founding Directors, Dr Stephen M. Whitehead and Dr. Patrick Lee, together with a range of independent Associates, each of whom is a recognized expert and specialist in one or more areas of international and private education and schooling. Depending on your needs and that of your school (from ongoing investment and whole-school start-up to designing an online curriculum and leadership mentoring) WLA can provide you with a highly experienced team of Associates who will be committed to devising and finding education consulting business solutions that work for you. To keep your costs down, all WLA consultancy and advisory services are designed to be delivered online unless it is practical and necessary to do otherwise.
We promise to provide a business solution to whatever challenge you or your school are currently facing while also maintaining and protecting your school’s core educational ethos and culture. We at WLA are confident of our ability to find business and development solutions for your international and/or private school because of our unique organisational structure and bespoke approach to educational consultancy. Our Directors and Associates include internationally renowned experts in education with many decades experience as owners, leaders and managers in top international and private schools and universities. Because we are equipped with competent consultants for opening schools, and by enlisting the expertise of WLA, you immediately connect with some of the most experienced and successful professionals in international education.