Meet Cheryl

From Multiple Vantage Points. One Foundation.

Over three decades, Cheryl Lacey has worked across teaching, media, publishing, consulting, advisory, family services, and civic leadership. Each role offered a distinct vantage point - together forming a unified, principle-driven approach to leading education.

She founded a childcare centre and kindergarten, lectured at major universities, produced and hosted radio, pitched education supplements for News Limited, repurposed classroom resources across national platforms, and launched an international parenting magazine for families of school-aged children.

As a publisher and curriculum developer, she sourced innovative educators and coached them to become published authors of their own expertise. Her consulting work spans sectors - advising hundreds of educational leaders, from early childhood through to superintendent training and cross-sector reform in Australia and the U.S.

A travel agency was in the mix, becoming IATA qualified and a developer training programs.

With postgraduate studies in parental alienation, she teaches legal teams and expert witnesses about principled boundaries between families and education providers.

Through it all, a pattern became clear: when leading education is disconnected from purpose, systems default to compliance, confusion, or collapse.

That clarity led to the development of Aequitarchy™ - leading education by rational fairness and first principles - and the creation of the First Principles on Education® Framework. Together, they offer both a foundation and a method for principled leadership in school education, law, policy, consultancy and system design.

Cheryl chose a horizontal career deliberately integrating judgment, responsibility, and consequence across every setting where education is led.