About
We've sat in your chair.
Nordic Education Academy was founded by two school leaders who got tired of the gap between what consultants promise and what schools actually need. We work the way we wish someone had worked with us.
Our philosophy
School leadership is the loneliest job in education. We don't make it less lonely with a deck. We make it less lonely by being there.
The founders
Two operators, twenty-five years of school leadership between them.
Nedzat Asanovski
Founder · School Builder & Strategy
I'm Nedzat Asanovski. As founding head, I built a school from 8 students to 750 across multiple campuses in ten years — including launching a Danish programme and growing a team of 140+ teachers, most developed from within. Along the way, we lifted average IB results from 28 to 37, the highest in Danish history, and held that top position every year since despite being the newest school in the country.
After a decade in education, I deliberately stepped into the business world — joining the leadership team at Novo Nordisk, one of the world's largest pharmaceutical companies, where I led IT projects and learned the operational discipline most schools never develop. I did it because I believed education and business each hold something the other needs, and the best school leaders would be the ones fluent in both.
That's the perspective I now bring to Nordic Education Academy.
Most new schools fail the transition from ambitious start-up to serious institution, because the founder's instincts that got them to 100 students are the same instincts that break them at 500. My work helps leaders make that shift before it costs them.
I'm a teacher by background, with a Master's in Effective Leadership from UCL. I've worked with schools across Denmark and the wider region, and today I advise several education start-ups alongside my work at Nordic Education Academy.
If you're founding, leading, or scaling a school — let's talk.
Evis Qeska
Co-founder · Strategy & Leadership Development
I'm Evis. I took a high school programme from 8 students to 150, and lifted average IB results from 28 to 37 — the highest in Danish history. The school has held that top position every year since, despite being the newest in the country.
I now help other international schools do the same — through board strategy, leadership development, and the operational decisions that actually move results.
I serve on the board of Fredensborg Skole, one of Denmark's largest and top-ranked schools, and on the board of Nordic International Schools, where I helped scale the network from 13 to over 40 schools and built the board and leadership training behind that growth. As an IB workshop leader, I work with educators across Europe, the Middle East and Africa — which keeps me close to the real questions boards and principals are wrestling with.
My background blends the commercial and the human: an MSc in Finance and Effective Leadership from UCL. The schools I work with don't get to choose between financial sustainability and educational excellence. They need both, at once.
If you're a board or school leader thinking about growth, results, or reputation — let's talk.
How we work
Four rules we don't break.
01
Embedded, not abstract
We do the work with you. We sit in the meetings, on the calls, in the classrooms.
02
Senior, always
You get the founders. We don't ship juniors with frameworks.
03
Outcomes in writing
What we'll deliver, by when, against what measure. Signed before we start.
04
One school at a time
Each advisor takes one engagement at a time. We can't be everywhere — and we don't pretend to be.
Track record
The numbers behind the work.
28 → 37
IB diploma average lift
700+
Students enrolled by partners
3 continents
Partner schools across Europe, Asia & Africa
92%
Family retention in growth engagements