Clarity &
Strategy
...at the crossroads
of your educational journey
Tolstoy & Partners is an education consultancy specializing in complex cases that require coordination across multiple domains. We help our clients overcome academic challenges, develop executive function skills, and manage institutional relationships. We facilitate communication between families, schools, and other service providers. Everyone we work with is assigned a team of specialists that meets their unique developmental needs and achievement targets.
Educational Services for Every Family's Unique Needs
Academic Development
We provide exceptional quality tutoring for students from kindergarten to graduate school. This includes a wide range of academic subjects, IB, AP, A-levels, and standardized tests (SAT, ACT, GMAT, GRE, IELTS, TOEFL, etc.). We recognize that every student has unique characteristics, needs & motivations, and we perform a series of assessments during the onboarding process to determine what those are. We get to the essence of what makes our clients tick and equip them with the tools to achieve on their own terms.
Professional Development
We help early and mid-career professionals to clearly establish their goals and achieve them. This includes selecting career paths, exploring the job market, preparing job applications, interview coaching, and managing relationships in the workplace. We recruit industry veterans as guest consultants for our clients, giving them the inside view on how to maximize their chances of employment and professional growth.
School and University Applications
We provide personalized guidance, helping students and families to identify suitable schools, navigate application requirements, and optimize their chances of acceptance.
We use our deep profiling methods to match families with the best schools and universities for each of their children. We don't accept commissions from schools or universities for getting students into them.
What makes our approach different and special?
This is the future of elite education, and it’s here.
Your Personal Team
We develop highly personalized learning services for each client. Depending on their goals, the focal point for a client may be an academic subject tutor, a university admissions consultant, a career counselor, or an executive function coach. At a client's request, we can also meet with other service providers that they are working with, such as school administrators or healthcare professionals. Our teams meet on a regular basis to exchange insights and compare perspectives so that nothing falls through the cracks, and our clients get the best results.
Executive Function Support
Executive functions are the cognitive processes that help us achieve our goals, from working memory to emotional regulation. It is our priority to help our clients master this area of their lives so that they can focus with clarity and ease on their education, career, and relationships. We help our clients understand themselves using a wide range of assessment tools, and use this knowledge to match them with a bespoke consulting team that assists them in achieving specific life targets. The assessment process makes our work uniquely efficient and effective.
Working with Institutions
We understand that the issues a client experiences happen within a context: a school, a workplace, or elsewhere. We help individuals and families understand the logic of these situations and advocate more effectively for their needs and interests. Where necessary, we act as "cultural translators" between families and schools, especially in the case of expatriates relocating to new environments. When schools lack the resources to address the needs of a specific student, we step in to collaborate in supporting them. Upon request, we also advise clients on selecting service providers in other domains.
Our Mission
To help families facing complex educational challenges find clarity, direction, and peace of mind.
Andrey Tolstoy
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Film and Media Studies, Comparative Literature.
YALE UNIVERSITY, USA
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Postgraduate Certificate in International Education
UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM, UK
Founder, Case Coordinator
Over the past two decades, Dr. Tolstoy has taught in the United States, Europe, and Southeast Asia, working with students from the elementary to the graduate school level, and teaching a wide range of subjects, including visual art, media, literature, mathematics, economics, philosophy, anthropology, history, and film production. He has designed university programs in the humanities and social sciences, and supervised original student research in these fields. He also has over two decades of experience working in news media as an editor, translator, videographer and producer. Since 2019, he has served as a communications consultant for multinational businesses and startups, advising on brand strategy, web design and content, grant proposals, fundraising, and investor relations. These eclectic experiences, as well as the wide network of academic and professional connections accrued along the way, are the foundation of Tolstoy & Partners' unique education model.
Emily Swindall
Ed.M in Special Education
GRAND CANYON UNIVERSITY, USA
B.S. Early Childhood Education
GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY, USA
Collaborating Executive Function Specialist
Emily Swindall is an educator with over fifteen years of experience teaching students with learning differences. She was the founding educational director of a school for students with ADHD and autism in Atlanta, Georgia. More recently, she worked in international school administration overseeing educational programming, mentoring teachers, and coordinating individual support for students. Her professional expertise is in the areas of social skills instruction, social and emotional learning, executive coaching, and literacy instruction.
...my experience working with Tolstoy and Partners has been truly invaluable. Not only did they equip me with a vast array of knowledge and essential life skills, but they also nurtured a genuine love for studying within me. Their unwavering support, expert guidance, and passion for education have undoubtedly played a pivotal role in my personal and academic growth. I am eternally grateful for their dedication and would highly recommend them as tutors and mentors to anyone seeking to unlock their full potential and embark on a transformative learning journey.
Max A - Dubai
Accepted at Eton College
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