Stella James

B2Education Unpacked - The Education Growth Podcast

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B2Education Unpacked — The Education Growth Podcast The gap between pitch decks and playgrounds. Between what gets built, what gets sold, and what happens when it meets children. Hosted by Stella James — former EdTech founder, commercial leader, and someone who's sat on both sides of the table — each episode unpacks why the gap between selling into education and succeeding in it is wider than most people admit. Real conversations with the founders building products, the leaders buying them, the implementers dealing with the fallout, and the people asking whether any of it actually works. If yo...

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Stella James

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Episode 5: Patrick McGrath | THE IMPLEMENTERS 01.07.2026 1:20:02

Everway (formerly Texthelp) is the largest assistive technology provider in the world — thirty years, hundreds of millions of users. Paddy McGrath wants to stop calling it assistive technology, and stop calling it accessibility. He'll explain why. Patrick (Paddy) McGrath is Director of Education at Everway, the global accessibility-technology company behind Read&Write and a suite of tools used...

Episode 4: Al Kingsley MBE | THE IMPLEMENTERS 17.06.2026 58:43

Al Kingsley has been on every side of the EdTech table: supplier, MAT chair, alternative-provision chair, SEND board chair, BESA EdTech chair. Which means when he tells you why your pitch doesn't land, he isn't guessing. Al Kingsley MBE is CEO of NetSupport — the classroom management, safeguarding and remote-management company that has been building infrastructure for schools since 1989. He chairs...

Episode 3: Matt Tiplin | THE BUILDERS 03.06.2026 1:00:32

Inclusion is one of the fastest-growing areas of EdTech procurement. Matt Tiplin thinks most of what's being sold into it isn't built for the right reasons. Matt Tiplin is the Education Director of Keys Inclusion Pathways, working at the intersection of technology, inclusion, and specialist educational provision. He has built something in one of the most complex and high-stakes areas of the EdTech...

Episode 2: Dr Neelam Parmar | THE BUILDERS 20.05.2026 1:05:36

Most EdTech conversations about AI default to either excitement or panic. Dr Neelam Parmar does neither. She's spent nearly two decades at the implementation end of the sector — starting her PhD in 2009, just as the iPad arrived — and she knows what moves the needle and what falls off the shelf. Dr Neelam Parmar is an EdTech consultant, researcher, and author of Digital Parenting. Her work spans m...

Episode 1: Aatif Hassan | THE BUILDERS 07.05.2026 46:48

Aatif Hassan was expelled from school. He has dyslexia and ADHD. He now runs one of the largest private education groups in the UK — Dukes Education — with over twenty UK schools, twenty-five international schools across Europe, and a deliberate refusal to use the word 'SEND'. This conversation is about why. Aatif Hassan is founder, Chair and CEO of Dukes Education and founder of Cavendish Educati...