
ABOUT
Sue's Bio
Sue Chandler is an education consultant, mediator, and author of The Relational School, partnering with school leaders to design relational frameworks, strengthen educator capability, and build cultures where wellbeing and engagement can thrive.
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With more than three decades of experience across teaching, counselling, educational leadership, and conflict resolution, Sue brings deep expertise in helping schools move beyond behaviour management toward coherent relational cultures grounded in safety, care, and shared responsibility.
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Through her consultancy, Transformative Schools, Sue works alongside leaders to design engagement and wellbeing frameworks, build educator capability, provide leadership coaching and mentoring, and facilitate restorative mediation in complex relational situations.
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Her work is grounded in the belief that sustainable cultural change is achieved not through programs alone, but through deliberate leadership, thoughtful design, and relationally aligned systems and practice.


SUE'S BIO
Over 30 Years Experience


SUE'S BIO

Prior to founding Transformative Schools, Sue spent five years as the inaugural Head of Wellbeing at All Hallows’ School in Brisbane, where she held strategic responsibility for designing and implementing the school’s whole-school wellbeing framework.
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This work involved aligning leadership, systems, and everyday practice to strengthen student engagement, relational culture, and staff capability - providing the foundation for Sue’s current consultancy approach to relational framework design.
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Sue has since partnered with schools across Australia to support leadership teams in designing relational engagement and wellbeing frameworks, building educator capability, and strengthening relational culture at a system level.
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Her work has been featured through conference presentations, professional learning partnerships, and education podcasts, including Flourishing at School, Wonders of Wellbeing, and Pioneers of Positive Education. ​
Bachelor's Degree
Education - Physical & Health
University of Woollongong
TERTIARY QUALIFICATIONS
Masters
Guidance & Counselling
James Cook University
Graduate Certificate
Dispute Resolution
Griffith University

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