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Michael Parsons is an international educational leader, strategist, and published author with more than twenty five years of experience working across diverse global school contexts. He is currently transitioning into the role of Deputy Head of School in Indonesia, where his responsibility centers on strategic development, execution, and the measurement of impact across teaching, learning, and organizational culture.

Michael’s work focuses on the practical intersection of strategy, data literacy, leadership, and culture. He is widely recognized for helping schools move beyond compliance driven planning and reactive data use toward coherent, future focused decision making. His leadership challenges the assumption that more initiatives, more data, or more activity automatically lead to better outcomes. Instead, his work emphasizes clarity of purpose, aligned systems, and intentional design as the foundations of sustainable improvement.

He is the creator of the Bullseye Strategy Model, a framework designed to align a school’s identity and context with its purpose, actions, and measures of success. This model underpins his work in building data literate cultures where educators understand not only what the data shows, but how to interpret it responsibly and use it to inform meaningful action.