Meet Lucy and Jonathan Coy, the school leaders who founded HeadteacherChat, and the community they created.
HeadteacherChat was founded in 2012 by Lucy and Jonathan Coy. What began as a weekly conversation between school leaders has grown into a peer community of over 3,150 members.
Leadership can be isolating. Drawing on their experience as headteachers and senior leaders, Lucy and Jonathan found that the most useful advice often came from peers sharing what had worked in their own schools. HeadteacherChat was created to make that practical support easier to find and share.
The paid community is for headteachers, deputy heads, assistant heads and people in comparable roles who currently carry operational responsibility for leading a school. Member conversations stay inside the private member community.
The community sits at the centre of HeadteacherChat. Around it are The Roundup, a public briefing with source links, practical resources and planners shaped by school leadership experience.
Lucy and Jonathan Coy founded HeadteacherChat and continue to lead its editorial, community, and commercial work.
Founder
Joint CEO of HeadteacherChat
Lucy Coy is co-founder and joint CEO of HeadteacherChat®, a former acting headteacher, deputy headteacher, assistant headteacher and inclusion lead. She creates school leader planners and supports education consultancy, resources and marketing for education organisations. Lucy is a Member of the Chartered College of Teaching.
Founder
Joint CEO of HeadteacherChat
Jonathan Coy is CEO and co-founder of HeadteacherChat®, a qualified coach, education consultant and former school leader with close to 30 years in education, including senior leadership and a Deputy CEO role in a multi-academy trust. He has served as a trustee and governor, and is a Fellow of the Chartered College of Teaching.
Explore membership for yourself or your school team. Membership is for people currently carrying school-leadership responsibility.
