Premise Practice About Contact
Private Strategic Advisory

Strategic focus for your child's
trajectory-defining decisions.

Dedicated advisory for families navigating the years that matter most.

The Premise

Your child has specialists.
They lack a strategist.

Your family likely invests in tutors, coaches, therapists, admissions consultants, and mentors. Each operates in isolation. Nobody coordinates these investments into a coherent strategy that serves your child's long-term positioning.

I sit above all of it. I identify the gaps no individual specialist is positioned to see. I source and, where necessary, replace the people working with your child. I build the decision frameworks, the identity architecture, and the long-range positioning that ensures every intervention compounds rather than fragments.

This role doesn't exist elsewhere in education. It was built from investment banking, strategic advisory, and two decades at the intersection of human development and competitive positioning.

An investment portfolio without oversight is speculation.
A child's development without coordination is chance.

Teresa Song
The Practice

What changes when a family retains me

Engagements are structured as retained relationships, scoped to each family's requirements. The work is designed to produce results that compound across years.

01

Full Coordination

Every specialist working with your child — tutors, coaches, therapists, consultants — reports to a single strategy. I hold each accountable to outcomes, remove what isn't working, and ensure nothing operates in isolation.

02

Decision Architecture

Your child develops the frameworks to evaluate high-stakes choices under uncertainty. Reversibility logic, opportunity cost, second-order thinking. The tools that compound over a lifetime.

03

Identity Infrastructure

Performance collapses when identity is fragile. I build the internal architecture that allows your child to interpret challenge correctly and maintain strategic direction under pressure.

04

Strategic Autonomy

The end goal is a young person who no longer needs me. Who can evaluate their own path, make critical tradeoffs, and operate independently in any competitive environment.

6
Families at any time

This practice is limited by design.

Not every enquiry becomes an engagement.

The depth required to coordinate a child's full

developmental strategy cannot be scaled.

Availability is managed through a waiting list.

Teresa Song
About

Teresa Song

I advise internationally prominent families on the strategic coordination of their children's development. My background spans investment banking at Morgan Stanley and two decades working at the intersection of education, strategy, and human development across six countries.

Education
BSc Economics & MSc Political Economy, London School of Economics
Finance
Morgan Stanley, Mergers & Acquisitions
Advisory
Founder. Fifteen years in strategic education practice.
All engagements are conducted under strict confidentiality. I do not disclose client families.

I kept seeing the same thing: extraordinary resources, fragmented attention.
The children who thrived had someone holding the whole picture.
These years don't come back. I make sure they count.

Teresa Song

Contact

By introduction or
direct enquiry

Engagements begin by introduction or, in limited cases, direct enquiry. Fit is assessed before any engagement is confirmed.

Request a Conversation

All enquiries are treated with complete discretion.

Legal

Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy explains how Teresa Song collects, uses and protects your personal data when you visit our website. Your privacy is important to us.

Information We Collect

Our website collects your IP address and passes this information to Google Analytics so that we can monitor how our website is being used. Google uses your IP address to provide us with general information about website usage and may use this data to personalise advertisements on its advertising network. Google may share this information with other Google services.

If you contact us via email or our booking system (Calendly), we will collect the personal information you provide, such as your name and email address, in order to respond to your enquiry.

How We Use Your Information

We use the data collected by our website to monitor trends using analytics tools produced by Google. This enables us to understand how our website is being used so that we can improve our services and operate our business more effectively.

Contact information you provide is used solely to respond to your enquiries and, if you become a client, to deliver our services to you.

Lawful Basis for Processing

Collecting your IP address and passing this to Google Analytics so that we can improve our website is in our "legitimate interests". This is the lawful basis we rely on under UK data protection legislation (UK GDPR) to process this personal information.

Where you contact us directly, we process your data on the basis of your consent and/or to take steps at your request prior to entering into a contract.

Cookies

Our website uses cookies — small text files placed on your device — to enable Google Analytics to function and to improve your browsing experience. You can control cookies through your browser settings. Please note that disabling cookies may affect website functionality.

Transfer of Personal Data

We will not actively send your data outside the UK or EU. However, Google may transfer data internationally. Google participates in data protection frameworks that provide appropriate safeguards for the transfer of personal data, ensuring compliance with UK GDPR requirements.

Data Retention

Analytics data (including IP addresses) is retained for 14 months, after which it is automatically anonymised or deleted by Google Analytics.

Contact information and client records are retained for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes for which they were collected, and in accordance with our legal and regulatory obligations.

Your Rights

Under UK data protection law, you have rights including the right to access, correct, delete, or restrict the processing of your personal data. You also have the right to object to processing and the right to data portability.

Questions and Concerns

If you have any questions or concerns about our use of your personal information, please contact us by emailing teresa@teresasong.co

You may also obtain more information from the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), the UK's supervisory authority for data protection.

Last updated: January 2026