FIONA MCKENZIE


GLOBAL HEAD OF EDUCATION, CARFAX CONSULTANTS


LEVERAGING LIFE EXPERIENCE TO BUILD A GLOBAL CAREER


Fiona Mckenzie is head of global consultancy (private clients) at Carfax Education, helping parents to access the very best education for their child to set them up for a lifetime of success.


F navigate


iona acts as advisor, mentor and guide to support families to make one of the most important decisions


for their child’s future and to find education solutions for wherever they want to go. The experience she brings to the role runs right from her childhood through her early career, university experience, motherhood and later career. Her understanding of how


schools are run, the importance of supporting families to make the


right the


choices, and how to complex world


of


university applications has been built up over many years. As the wife of a headmaster she has direct experience of liaising with staff and parents. She has also been a governor of several UK schools, and is the parent of four children who have


all been educated in


British boarding schools and UK and US universities. Fiona has an entrepreneurial mindset and has always worked either for herself setting


up her or in schools. These


own businesses skills and


experiences enabled her to turbo- charge her career in her 50s when her children were grown up.


82 “I had acquired a range of skills


and experiences in the preceding years, which equipped me to do this,” she explains.


CRISIS MANAGEMENT & PEOPLE SKILLS Indeed,


the importance of


education and the opportunities it can unlock runs right through her life, from the time she joined Rugby School at sixth form as one of only 30 girls among 750 boys. “Until the age of 16 I was at an


all-girls school,” she explains. “I was one of the first girls to go to Rugby because my father had attended Rugby and he didn’t have any sons so he was delighted when he found out the school had decided to accept girls,” she explains. “It was a very formative experience and I absolutely loved my time there. It was tough dealing with a man's world so it was a real learning curve in that sense, but it was fantastic to be in a school that gave you so many opportunities. I don't think I would have gone to university if I had stayed at my girls’ school. Rugby really broadened my horizons and gave me confidence to pursue my ambitions.”


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