People-powered Learning For Life
How do you prepare young people for life ahead? For educators tasked with helping tomorrow’s citizens, parents and employees navigate a complex world, it’s a big ask.
At Amazing People Schools, we understand your challenge.
Our mission is to unlock the potential of every young person, inspiring them through role models, their stories and strengths. We do this by creating a learning experience that will engage and motivate students from early years to 16, with teaching resources and events that support character strength development as well as mental health and wellbeing.
Our resources open up a world of different cultures and faiths, and it’s a diverse one, representing a range of protected characteristics including race and sexual orientation.
The Amazing People Schools platform will help your students build the tools they’ll need for the future – critical tools such as resilience, self-esteem and empathy.
And it’ll help you create life-long, positive impact.
We Are Amazing People Schools
Amazing People Schools is an award-winning team of educators, content creators, editors, marketeers and subject matter experts. Collectively, we’ve decades of experience working with schools and organisations around the world, helping young people flourish. And we’re proud to be the first ‘Company of Character’ in the UK to receive the international Quality Mark by the Association for Character Education in 2020.
Frances Corcoran
Managing Director
Selena Whitehead
Education Team Manager
Marion Andersson
Business Development Manager
Dr Jill Margerison
Director / Snr Education Advisor
Ben Tegg
Head of Partnerships / Engagement
Manjit Shellis
Snr Education Advisor
Catherine Hodgkinson
Operations Manager
Jess Griffin
Content Manager
Michelle Ravenscroft
Education Consultant
Danise Grant
Education Consultant
Evie Loy
Education Consultant
Our Impact
“Thank you. Your wellbeing resources are fantastic .”
“Thank you for your new resources. They are brilliant and just what the children need right now .”
“Your website has been absolutely invaluable … our pupils are loving it .”
Our Amazing Story
Meet Our Founder
Dr Charles Margerison is a psychologist, a member of the Royal Institution and the Royal Literature Society, author, entrepreneur and educator.
Previously Professor of Management at the University of Cranfield, UK, the University of Queensland, Australia, he is a co-founder of Team Management Systems and Emerald Insights, the world’s largest management journal company.
The author of more than ten books on management issues, Dr Margerison has also developed an innovative continuing professional development system, called The Communication and Problem-Solving Resource, useful in all aspects of life.
The seed of what grew into Amazing People Schools was sown when Dr Margerison wondered what amazing people like William Shakespeare, Frida Kahlo, Harriet Tubman and Albert Einstein might have said if he had interviewed them about their life and work. His research that spanned over twenty years focussed on the psychology of these inspirational role models and how they used their time and talents to achieve amazing things.
