Meet the Founder

I'm Jessie, and I built Echo.

My degree is in psychology, with a first class honours and a specialism in organisational psychology: the study of why people stay in a job, why they leave, and what their workplace could have done differently. My research now focuses on teacher wellbeing and retention, and one finding kept surfacing.

What the research says is consistent. Teachers who feel supported are half as likely to think about leaving. Teachers who feel heard stay. Workload matters, but the thing that turns a hard job into an unbearable one is the sense that nobody noticed.

What I heard from schools was the other half of that story. Leaders who care deeply about their staff and are carrying enormous pressure themselves. Headteachers who find out something was wrong when the resignation letter arrives. Trusts with years of survey data that told them the score but never told them what to do on Monday. Teachers who filled in the survey, waited, and heard nothing back.

I noticed there is simply a lack of tools, resources, and time to close this loop. Schools were never short of data about their staff. But the part that comes next is sparse: deciding what to change, doing it, and telling people it had been done.

That is the gap Echo was built for. A short, regular check-in, a plan with names and dates on it, and a way to tell staff what changed. Drawn from the research, and built for the reality of a school week.

If you lead a school or a trust and you want to hear from your staff before the resignation letter, I would like to talk to you.