I have been where you areas a school leader.
Aimee Presnall. Founder of Well-Nest. Former teacher and school leader. TEDx speaker. Coach, facilitator, and keynote speaker for the people shaping schools today.
I founded Well-Nestto build what was missing.
After sixteen-plus years inside classrooms and school leadership across Australia and internationally, I had worked alongside extraordinary school leaders. People with vision, capability, and care for the communities they served. What was missing was rarely the talent. It was the space to think clearly, the partnership to lead well, and the language for the harder conversations the system never trained anyone to have.
So I built that space.
I taught the hard classes, sat in the hard meetings, and held the hard conversations nobody trained me for. I sat alongside leaders who were genuinely good at the work, and saw the same gap show up every time. They did not need a generic leadership workshop. They needed a thinking partner who had been inside the work, and a practice that stayed with them long enough for the change to actually hold.
So I built one.
Pyrmont, Sydney
The practice I wished existedwhen I was in the work.
Well-Nest is an executive leadership practice for Principals and the school leadership teams they lead. A confidential, judgement-free space to find clarity, create the conditions their teams need, and build the cultures they actually want to lead.
Not wellbeing coaching. Not generic leadership training. Executive leadership development, built for the real shape of a school leader's week.
Well-Nest works with educational leaders and associations to dismantle the conditions that create burnout in the first place, building capacity and team cultures where leadership is sustainable, not sacrificial. Through coaching, workshops, retreats, and the podcast Reflections of School Leaders, my approach is honest about what is broken and fiercely practical about fixing it.
Leaders who are well, lead well. When leaders lead well, everyone in the school feels it.
The qualifications matter.The years inside matter more.
- Sixteen-plus years as a teacher and school leader, across Australia and internationally
- Masters of Educational Leadership
- Health and Wellness Coaching Professional Certificate
- Workplace Wellbeing accreditation
- TEDx speaker, TEDx Burleigh Heads ED 2026
- Host of Reflections of School Leaders and Wonders of Wellbeing podcasts
Four formats.One spine.
Well-Nest works with Principals, school leadership teams, and the associations that support them, across Australia and internationally. The work runs through four formats.
1:1 executive coaching
For Principals who want a regular, confidential thinking space with someone in the work alongside them.
Explore coachingLeadership retreats
For executive teams that need time away from the operational churn to land the conversations they have been circling.
Explore retreatsWorkshops
For leadership groups and associations going deep on a specific capability.
Explore workshopsKeynote speaking
At the conferences where school leaders gather.
Explore keynotesWhichever format, the spine of the work is the same. We build clarity, create the conditions teams need to thrive, and help leaders shape the culture their whole school community walks into.
Recognise yourself here?That is the first sign.
If you are reading this and recognising yourself in any of it, that is the first sign it might be time to make space for the work.
Aimee Presnall
Founder, Well-Nest
Thirty minutes. No obligation. A real conversation about where you are at.