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Industry expertise
Insync partners with education organisations across Australia, from early learning centres and schools to universities, TAFEs and vocational providers, bringing sector-specific benchmarks, research expertise and consulting support to institutions committed to better outcomes for students, employees, educators and families.
Education organisations serve a broader range of stakeholders than almost any other sector. Educators, students, families, communities and funding bodies all have a stake in how an institution performs, and understanding what each group is experiencing is one of the more complex measurement challenges in any industry.
Workforce pressures are also acute. Teachers, early childhood educators, academics and support staff are motivated by purpose but vulnerable to burnout, and the connection between employee experience and student outcomes is well established. Insync works with education organisations that want the evidence to understand both, and the expertise to act on it.
What we hear from sector leaders
These are the specific issues that principals, vice-chancellors, HR Directors, and early childhood directors regularly raise with us.
The education workforce spans teachers, academics, early childhood educators, support staff, and administrators, each with distinct drivers of engagement and pressures. Measurement that treats them as one group misses what matters most to each.
Whether you are an early learning centre seeking to understand what families value, a school measuring student belonging, or a university tracking the student experience, the challenge is the same: designing a feedback program that captures genuine experiences and produces insights you can act on.
Education is navigating significant structural, regulatory and demographic change. Mergers, curriculum reform, funding shifts and workforce shortages are forcing institutions to adapt at a pace. Culture and leadership quality determine whether organisations navigate change well or poorly.
Education organisations are increasingly required to demonstrate the quality of their outcomes, not just their processes. Boards, government funders and accreditation bodies want evidence. Structured, independent measurement provides it.
Solutions for this sector
These are the Insync services most used by education clients, each applied with sector-specific benchmarks, frameworks and consultant expertise.
Employee experience
Measure what drives or depletes engagement across your education workforce. Benchmarked against education sector organisations so your results are meaningful in context.
Customer experience
Understand the experiences of students, families and community stakeholders through structured, independent feedback programs tailored to your institution, whether an early learning centre, school or university.
Culture & leadership
Understand the cultural foundations of your institution and where culture is supporting or undermining staff performance, student outcomes and community trust.
Culture & leadership
Develop your educational leaders with structured, independent feedback from peers, direct reports and stakeholders. Relevant for school principals, academic leaders, early childhood directors and executive teams.
Other solutions for the sector
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Your sector specialist
When you work with Insync’s education team, you are working with consultants who understand the specific challenges, stakeholder dynamics and measurement requirements of education organisations across every level of the sector.
Senior Manager – Community Services & Education
Emily partners with organisations across the education and community sectors to understand the experiences of students, families, staff and communities, and to translate those insights into clear, actionable recommendations that drive meaningful improvement. Her work spans employee engagement, family and student voice, community feedback and deep organisational analysis, delivered with a collaborative approach and a genuine commitment to the sectors she serves.
Career highlights include leading the design and national pilot of a safety climate survey tool for the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care, partnering with Lady Gowrie QLD to roll out a sector-leading family feedback survey, and building a trusted partnership with Glen Education spanning more than a decade. Prior to Insync, Emily volunteered extensively with not-for-profit organisations, grounding her sector knowledge in lived experience and professional expertise.
Emily partners with organisations across the education and community sectors to understand the experiences of students, families, staff and communities, and to translate those insights into clear, actionable recommendations that drive meaningful improvement. Her work spans employee engagement, family and student voice, community feedback and deep organisational analysis, delivered with a collaborative approach and a genuine commitment to the sectors she serves.
Career highlights include leading the design and national pilot of a safety climate survey tool for the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care, partnering with Lady Gowrie QLD to roll out a sector-leading family feedback survey, and building a trusted partnership with Glen Education spanning more than a decade. Prior to Insync, Emily volunteered extensively with not-for-profit organisations, grounding her sector knowledge in lived experience and professional expertise.
Organisations worked with
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Common questions
Yes. Our benchmark pool includes data from education organisations across early childhood, schools, TAFEs and universities. Your results are compared with those of institutions that face similar workforce dynamics, student experience expectations, and regulatory requirements to yours. We do not average your results against non-education organisations.
Yes. Insync works across the full range of education stakeholders, from early childhood families and school communities through to university students and library users. Each program is designed for the specific audience and context, not adapted from a generic template.
Yes. Insync has worked with early childhood education and care providers for many years, including community-based services, long day care, family day care and school-age care. We understand the National Quality Standard, the regulatory environment and the specific measurement challenges of the early childhood context.