Improve school culture for top-tier performance.
Your whole-school outcomes can only be as good as your staff’s relationships and wellbeing. When your staff are burnt out trying to manage the behaviours, workload and mounting stressors that come with teaching, they feel so overworked that they can’t even comprehend new initiatives - let alone implement them.
What if your team could work without that burden of stress? Bring fresh ideas to the classroom that improve engagement and learning? Have the energy to create and implement school-wide initiatives themselves?
That’s where I come in. Using Positive Psychology and current research, I give tailored wellbeing consulting to school staff so that your school culture thrives again.
Improve School Culture
By prioritising your staff’s wellbeing you will create the kind of environment where teachers feel valued and develop a culture of trust, loyalty and collaboration.
Raise School Performance
Achieve strategic goals throughout the entire school. Experience the ripple effect, from reducing the need for relief teachers to increasing staff retention.
Increase Staff Resilience
Transform your school so that your staff can’t wait to get to work. Give them a supportive working environment that strengthens commitment and resilience.
Beat Staff Burnout
Reduce the need for personal days and avoid staff burnout. Help tired, stressed and overworked staff get the support they need to feel valued and recharge.
Partnering With
Tailored School Wellbeing Services
School wellbeing consulting is tailored to suit the needs, budget and nuances of your specific school. No cookie-cutter approach.
Anonymous Staff Welbeing Surveys
Before implementing new initiatives designed to support staff and teacher wellbeing, it’s important that leaders understand how their people are doing at work, identify any underlying issues, and determine what initiatives may be most helpful for their school.
Additionally, surveys provide staff with an opportunity to voice their thoughts and be involved in the process of change.
Whether you prefer a DIY option where I provide you the resources and guides you need to run it yourself, or more hands-on guidance, including analysis of the results and recommendations, you choose what works best for you.
Purchase a survey from us and you'll receive:
- Access to your own online wellbeing survey
- Editable survey questions
- PDF guide outlining tips for a successful survey process
- Step-by-step instructions for setting up & distributing your survey
- Activities and discussion prompts to use in data review
- Optional: Data review + analysis with recommendations
“The entire staff were engaged in the process and the results and insights were both fascinating and extremely useful to understand and implement.”
“I have had an excellent experience working with Adrienne!
I found the Staff Wellbeing Survey to be a very detailed and a broad-based tool providing staff input on their health and wellness needs.
The entire staff were engaged in the process and the results and insights were both fascinating and extremely useful to understand and implement. The data analysis was extremely insightful, responsive, professional and accommodating.
Not only did it give results but provided realistic recommendations for the development of a solid Wellbeing Action Plan which takes into consideration the unique needs of the staff.”
Val Ciuffetelli
- Assistant Principal, ACT
Well-Led Schools Partnership Program
Join our “Well-Led” Schools Partnership Program to access the step-by-step guidance, and support required from Health and Wellbeing Consultant Adrienne Hornby so you can support your staff’s wellbeing needs and create a positive school environment.
A 12 month program which empowers school leaders and their staff to create a wellbeing action plan designed to beat staff burnout and create a thriving school culture.
Our "Well Led" Schools Partnership Program provides your school with the framework, step-by-step guidance, and support required to address your staffs wellbeing needs.
This package will guide you through the process of reviewing your staff needs, capturing voice, aligning your leadership approach and up-skilling your staff in tangible ways to improve their wellbeing.
The most successful schools follow my 6 step process. The essential first step to all my programs is conducting a scan of your school using an anonymous staff wellbeing survey.
Based on your school survey data, we will design a complete consulting package tailored to the individual needs of your school.
- Survey your entire staff anonymously to pinpoint their needs
- Termly Leadership Coaching Sessions
- Termly Staff Development Workshops
- Termly Strategy Calls with the senior leadership
- Up-skill your leaders and staff in ways to jointly address and improve staff wellbeing
- Align your school's vision for improved school culture and staff wellbeing
- Build a tailored 'Staff Wellbeing Action Plan' for your school
- Access to an online learning portal, complete with activities, resources and tasks to keep the momentum going between sessions
- Ongoing support, advice, strategy, and accountability for 12 months
- A step-by-step approach to school success using my '6 steps to Becoming a Well-Led School' model
Adrienne’s survey tools, follow-up reporting, staff workshops and leadership development have opened a whole new perspective, for both my staff and I, on staff wellbeing as being the responsibility of the collective. Adrienne has facilitated the development of a ‘Wellbeing Action Plan’, that is tailored to our staff in our school context, through getting to know and understand how we work and using the PERMA(H) model. Her independent and empathetic ear, partnered with her research, expertise and on-the-ground awareness has been embraced by the entire staff. Our return survey results evidenced growth way beyond my expectations over a 12-month period.
Without reservation, I would highly recommend Adrienne’s Consultancy and guidance. It takes the pressure off the principal to be the one and only. ‘Us and Them’ is now a thing of the past.
Anne
- School Principal
BOOK A CALL
One call can turn around your school’s culture.
Help your staff get the health and wellbeing support they need to make your school thrive again. Book a call today to learn more.
Meet the founder
Meet the woman behind the business.
Adrienne Hornby
School Wellbeing Consultant and Strategist
Biography
I partner with school leaders and their teams across Australia to bring together psychosocial safety, staff wellbeing and whole-school strategy — helping schools gather meaningful data, strengthen staff voice, and build tailored Staff Wellbeing Frameworks that create lasting cultural change.
Rather than adding another initiative, my work supports leaders to understand what is truly impacting their people, align with Safe Work/Work Safe expectations, and embed wellbeing into everyday leadership and practice. Each school’s approach is shaped by its context, ensuring that improvements to staff wellbeing also strengthen culture, performance and long-term sustainability.
Earlier in my career as a teacher and school leader, I experienced first-hand the pressure and overwhelm many educators quietly carry. That experience reshaped the way I led, moving from reactive wellbeing support toward a more strategic, staff-informed approach focused on morale, culture, engagement, communication and consultation — not simply mental health alone.
Since then, I’ve partnered with more than 75 schools to help them move from frustration, cynicism and fatigue toward healthier, shared and more sustainable ways of working. My work is grounded in a simple belief: when schools support their people well and share responsibility for wellbeing, everything else becomes possible.
Education
Masters in Educational Leadership - Current
Leadership in Psychosocial Risk Management - 2025- Group Coaching - Wellcoaches - 2020
- Institute for Integrative Nutrition (IIN) Certificate in Health and Wellness Coaching - 2018
- Bachelor of Education (Primary) - 2010
From Our Clients
Thank you for your friendly and approachable facilitation of our whole school scan. We felt the timing of the session was appropriate and encouraged feedback from each member. The session gives us an overview of feedback to date with time and support to unpack the information for our context. It was so useful to compare our data with other schools to see where we are on our journey. I liked the guidance received to review our data and make connections.
Yvette
Deputy Principal
Without a doubt, the most powerful learning staff have done this term.
Adrienne shared her personal journey and supported staff to reflect on ways in which they can change themselves, make wiser choices and harness their potential to improve the quality of their lives and, in turn, those of our students.
It was an incredibly powerful session.
Kate
Deputy Principal, ACT
I attended a high quality presentation related to staff wellbeing which Adrienne presented over two days at a conference. She provided a wealth of research-based findings and evidence-backed advice about how to improve schools’ productivity through assisting staff. I highly recommend her as a capable consultant who listens well and walks the talk.
Peter
School Principal
Our staff were fully engaged in Adrienne’s enjoyable, thought provoking and practical presentation. They each found different things to take away and help them and Adrienne shared a variety of aspects to cater for everyone. Setting her apart were the stories of her own life and how she has overcome many obstacles. Throughout her personal struggles, she found things that worked to keep her positive and she communicated these well. We are excited to explore some of these in more depth with Adrienne throughout next year.
Deb
Principal - Theodore Primary School, ACT
“The entire staff were engaged in the process and the results and insights were both fascinating and extremely useful to understand and implement.”
“I have had an excellent experience working with Adrienne!
I found the Staff Wellbeing Survey to be a very detailed and a broad-based tool providing staff input on their health and wellness needs.
The entire staff were engaged in the process and the results and insights were both fascinating and extremely useful to understand and implement. The data analysis was extremely insightful, responsive, professional and accommodating.
Not only did it give results but provided realistic recommendations for the development of a solid Wellbeing Action Plan which takes into consideration the unique needs of the staff.”
Val Ciuffetelli
- Assistant Principal, ACT
Adrienne has worked with our leaders and staff in the professional development space. She is extremely informative and motivating. Her presentations are practical and hands on. I look forward to working with Adrienne again in the near future. I highly recommend her for your individual self or workplace.
Christina H
Deputy Principal, Barmedman Primary School, NSW
“Adrienne’s manner, organisation, professionalism, knowledge and understanding of staff wellbeing has allowed for positive change in our school community. I have found it the most useful to discuss with staff about big issues and possible actions and solutions for addressing these. These sessions have been so useful in moving forward and meeting the needs of our school. I am looking forward to where our staff wellbeing action plan takes our staff and school.”
Kristy
School Leader, St Clare of Assisi Primary School, ACT
Adrienne has been a blessing in my life. She is always listening and responding, prompting me to think and act in new ways and encourages self-reflection. She sees things from a mature and experienced point of view and backs up her suggestions with evidence and results. I highly recommend Adrienne to those who need advice on any aspect of their health and wellbeing.