Business teacher. Founder, InsightEducat
Cassandra Chamberlin
MBA, Henley Business School. MTeach with Distinction, UCL Institute of Education. A decade in school middle leadership, most of it as Director of MFL at Warden Park Academy.
In 2020, I left teaching when I found the only way to develop myself was through assistant headship, a route that eluded me. I spent the next three years running my father's whisky export company. Reading about entrepreneurship and actually doing it turned out to be very different things. I learned more about real customers, real risk and real decisions in those three years than in any qualification I've sat.
Now I teach Business, A-Level and BTEC, at Godalming College, and I've spent the years since graduating from my MBA trying to work out how to teach entrepreneurship properly. Not from a textbook. From something real.
Why InsightEducat Exists
Here's what I actually believe: students today are knowledge-rich and skills-poor. They can analyse a case study, cite a theory, pass the exam. What most of them have never done is decide something for themselves, act on it, and live with what happens next. That's not a skills gap. It's an agency gap.
I didn't always think this. I used to teach by transferring what I knew. Now I intervene less, observe more, and ask better questions instead of supplying answers. What I've noticed, running real bootcamps with real businesses, is that motivation shows up when a young person is working on a problem they chose, not one assigned to them. And the students who thrive most aren't always the ones doing well elsewhere. Often, they're the ones who've been quietly told, one way or another, that they're not "good at school."
I don't actually think entrepreneurship needs a qualification to be worth teaching. But a qualification is the currency the education system understands, and if that's what it takes to get this into more classrooms, that's what I'm building. Not a business plan competition. Not an enrichment day. Something a student has to actually do: know themselves, find a real customer, build something, sell it.
That's InsightEducat. Not a curriculum add-on. An argument about what school could be preparing young people for."
The Creative Revolution
I'm also part of a global community continuing Sir Ken Robinson's work, built on his belief that creativity, not just knowledge, is the essence of human potential. .
Education systems weren't built to develop the capability young people actually need. It's going to take more than one qualification, in one country, to change that, and I'd rather be part of that wider effort than pretend I'm doing it alone.