Our Team

Tamsin joined Octavo in January 2017 as Account Manager.  Tamsin is a Fellow of the Chartered Management Institute and the Chartered Insurance Institute.  She was a Governor at Hayes secondary school (Bromley) for 8 years.  Tamsin has over 25 years account management experience within financial services, including account management for  Film/ TV companies, pre-schools and nurseries, insurance companies, international insurance education colleges. In recent years Tamsin has specialised in learning and development including teaching and qualification benchmarking. She established a CPD accreditation which became the 'gold' standard for insurance and financial services training.

Caroline is a highly skilled professional with a variety of experiences across public services. She is an articulate and motivated individual who always aims to provide a high quality service, by using creative, adaptable and innovative approaches to ensure effective delivery and impact of the services that she provides.

Caroline has excellent communication skills which have been developed working across a wide range of diverse communities and individuals. She has worked across all phases of education and types of school settings. Caroline is an experienced trainer and facilitator who creates, delivers and evaluates bespoke packages to meet the needs of her clients. In addition, Caroline has lead and managed teams, and has performance management, change management and finance skills. Caroline leads on governance and having been a governor and chair of governors, fully understands the demands and responsibilities faced by governing bodies and board of trustees today.

Sonia is a highly skilled professional, with over ten years’ of experience of working in London’s financial sector. This enables her to work effectively to deadlines and deliver a high quality service at all times for our customers, using innovative and creative approaches to deliver impactful results. Sonia is an experienced Chair of Governors, and fully understands the increasing responsibilities and expectations placed on the shoulders of governing bodies in the current dynamic educational landscape. Sonia is an articulate and experienced trainer and leads on the academy and school governance training and development programme, ensuring that both the termly training programme, and the bespoke training sessions, are tailored to meet the constantly evolving needs and requirements of governing bodies / board of trustees. Her finance experience, as well as her governance work, has enhanced the finance training that Governor Services is able to offer, ensuring it is tailored to effectively meet the practical needs of those who sit on finance committees and may not have a finance background. She also delivers courses on behalf of the National College for Teaching and Learning.