About
Where experience meets real-world impact
Andy Mitchell founded High Pass Coaching and Consultancy after more than two decades leading schools and developing leaders across the education system. He has amalgamated schools, built new ones, established system-wide training partnerships, led communities through crisis and secured rapid improvement where others had not.
He now brings that experience – alongside the rigour of an ILM Level 7 Executive Coaching and Mentoring qualification and the use of pyschometric profiling – to headteachers, organisational leaders and senior teams who want an honest thinking partner with genuine authority.
Andy works with a deliberately small number of clients at any one time, so that every relationship receives the depth and quality of attention it deserves.
Coaching Qualifications
- ILM Level 7 Executive Coaching & Mentoring - In progress
- CUREE trained coach and mentor
- Coaching experience across education, corporate and charity sectors
- Former Warwickshire Badminton First Team Coach and Captain
Leadership experience
- 30+ years leading complex organisations
- Multiple organisational turnarounds under intense public scrutiny
- Built a new organisation from scratch - culture, teams, systems
- National teacher training partnership with Warwick University
- School improvement partner - strategic planning, inspection preparation, governor performance management (2025/2026)
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The first conversation is always free
No obligation and no pitch – simply a chance to explore whether working together would be right for you and your organisation.
