Clarity for the challenge. Strategy for the journey. Support for the implementation.
Magic Years is a consultancy that does not deliver a report and disappear. We stay with our partners from discovery through delivery — until the change is visible in classrooms, meetings, and outcomes.
Diagnosis before prescription
We refuse to recommend a solution before understanding what is actually happening.
Alongside, not above
We work with your team, not around them. Capacity is built into every engagement.
Evidence, not applause
We measure honestly. Success is what changed for learners — not how good the deck looked.
Twelve services. One consistent standard.
Each service has its own dedicated page — with expanded deliverables, timelines, sample outputs, and FAQ.
Educational Needs Assessments
A structured read of what learners, staff, and families actually need — before any decision is made.
School Improvement Audits
An honest external read of instruction, leadership, and outcomes — with a roadmap middle leaders can execute.
Strategic Planning
A three- to five-year strategy people can actually explain and execute — with owners, cadences, and KPIs built in.
Classroom & Instructional Review
A calibrated read of instructional quality across the institution — with a coaching-needs plan attached.
Program Design
Design a signature program — early years, STEM, wellbeing, AI, gifted, remediation — that is coherent from vision to lesson.
Parent-Engagement Strategy
Rebuild trust with families — with a parent-experience audit, communication playbook, and escalation protocols.
Policy Review
Audit and redraft the policies your school actually depends on — academic, wellbeing, safeguarding, AI, and data.
School Startup Consultation
Design a new school from model to opening day — with a defensible identity, blueprint, and hiring plan.
Institutional Development
Modernize systems, roles, and identity for institutions entering a new stage of scale or reinvention.
Implementation Support
Turn strategy into behavior — with weekly coaching, sprint planning, and phase-gate reviews.
Monitoring & Evaluation
Build measurement that improves practice — not just reports it — for schools, programs, and funder-backed initiatives.
Organizational Capacity Building
Build the internal capability — playbooks, managers, and succession — so the institution stops depending on individuals.
Five ways to start — matched to your moment.
Every engagement is tailored, but most start in one of these shapes. We will recommend the fit during discovery.
Clarity Session
A focused consultation for a clearly defined challenge.
Leaders and founders who need one honest, structured conversation before deciding what to do next.
- Pre-session brief and document review
- 90-minute working session with a senior advisor
- Written summary with recommended next steps
Diagnostic Review
A structured assessment of a school, program, team, or learning problem.
Institutions that need a defensible external read before investing in change.
- Stakeholder interviews and artifact review
- Selective observation and data analysis
- Diagnostic report with priority map
- Executive readout with SLT
Strategy & Design Engagement
A custom solution plan with tools, systems, and implementation guidance.
Institutions moving from insight into a concrete plan for the next 12–18 months.
- Strategy or program design sprints
- Playbooks, tools, and dashboards
- Owner and cadence design
- Kick-off with implementation team
Transformation Partnership
A long-term school or organizational improvement engagement.
Institutions committed to a full arc of change: diagnostic, design, delivery, and evidence.
- Full diagnostic and roadmap
- Embedded implementation partnership
- Middle-leader and coaching development
- Quarterly board-level review
Annual Advisory Partnership
Ongoing strategic consultation, reviews, PD, and leadership support.
Heads, founders, and boards who want a trusted advisor available across the year.
- Monthly strategy sessions with a senior advisor
- Two on-site reviews per year
- PD days for leadership team
- On-call support for critical decisions
A six-phase process built for real institutions.
Not every engagement uses every phase — but every engagement follows the same discipline.
- Phase 01
Discover
We listen first. Discovery calls, listening interviews, and document review to understand context, ambition, and constraint.
- Phase 02
Diagnose
We name the real problem — not just the presenting one — and share an honest, evidence-based read with leadership.
- Phase 03
Design
We co-design the solution: strategy, program, or system — with owners, cadences, and success indicators built in.
- Phase 04
Deploy
We work alongside your team to launch, unblock, and hold the change — through the messy middle, not just the kickoff.
- Phase 05
Develop
We build capacity as we go. Middle leaders, managers, and internal owners are visibly stronger by the end.
- Phase 06
Demonstrate Results
We measure honestly. Evidence of impact for boards, funders, families — and, most importantly, for learners.
Tell us where you are. We will take it from there.
This intake goes to a senior advisor. We respond within two working days with a proposed discovery conversation — no cost, no pressure.
- Reviewed by a senior advisor, not a salesperson.
- We only propose an engagement once we understand your context.
- Your information is kept confidential and never sold.
Not ready for the intake yet?
Start with a 90-minute Clarity Session — a single, structured conversation to help you decide what to do next.