A professional journey.
A deeply human perspective.
Education, inclusion and leadership, connected by a belief in people’s individual journeys.
Experience that looks
beyond the obvious.
Emma has worked across education for more than 20 years, including hospital schools, special schools, mainstream education and pupil referral units. Her career has included senior leadership and leading specialist provision for children with autism. Read the Family Fund biography
That professional experience sits alongside a personal understanding of special educational needs. Together, they inform a perspective that is practical, curious and attentive to the whole person.
Today, this website brings her education work into conversation with authorship, speaking, governance and advisory work.
More than a
list of roles.
Education & specialist provision
Teaching, understanding learners and leading provision across different educational settings.
Consultancy & organisational work
Supporting schools, organisations and families through Essential Education Group.
Public biographyAuthorship & public conversation
Igniting Potential, speaking engagements and collaborative conversations about SEND and inclusion.
Publisher recordGovernance & strategic perspective
Trusteeship, safeguarding governance and a commitment to bringing people’s experience into strategic decisions.
Family Fund governance
A professional life.
A human connection.
Alongside the roles and ideas are the conversations, encounters and shared experiences that give the work its meaning.
Explore moments from the workUniquely take
your place.
People do not need identical journeys to have equal worth.
The strap-line connects different parts of Emma’s work: a learner finding a way into education, a family looking for understanding, a leader reconsidering practice or a board listening to the people its decisions affect.
Emma Noel Pinnock is the forward-facing brand. Work and writing published as Emma Pinnock remain part of the same professional journey.
The supplied brand philosophyA conversation can be
the beginning of something.
Choose an appointment on Emma’s existing Calendly page. Event scope and availability are shown there.