Jess Harris

Spear’s Review

Jess Harris is head of Quintessentially Education, which specialises in private tuition, education advice and relocation support for international UHNW families.

She tells Spear’s that the Quintessentially network has partners called ‘lifestyle managers’ on the ground working across more than 35 offices worldwide, making the educational services provided highly bespoke. Members and non-members of the luxury concierge group can approach Harris and her team for support, and the firm says that it helps ‘candidates of all ages’ with their educational goals.

‘We work exclusively for our families, so we don’t affiliate with any particular school or university,’ Harris says. In an unregulated industry, independence of consultants can be ‘a hazy line’, as some ‘operate as agents’, collecting commissions from schools. She is proud of the fact that the firm applies a ‘student-centred approach’, which she says sets it apart from many others in the industry.