In this episode of the Education Business Podcast, Claire Riley sits down with Matthew Curnier — founder of Capital Tuition Group and Tutor Onboarder — to explore the winding road from marine biologist to multi-company education entrepreneur.

Matthew shares how the National Tutoring Programme exposed critical compliance gaps in the tutoring sector and sparked the creation of Tutor Onboarder. He opens up about scaling pains, hiring mistakes, shiny object syndrome, rate increases, systemisation, and the emotional weight of entrepreneurship.

This is a candid, practical, and refreshingly honest conversation about what it really takes to build and scale in the education space — without losing focus or burning out your team.

00:00 – Why Surrounding Yourself with Better People Matters
01:00 – From Marine Biologist to Teacher
02:00 – Training in a School in Special Measures
03:00 – Becoming a Specialist Leader in Education
04:00 – The Birth of Capital Tuition Group
05:00 – The National Tutoring Programme Opportunity
06:00 – Discovering the Compliance Gap
07:00 – Building the First Version of Tutor Onboarder
08:00 – Running Two Companies at Once
09:00 – Leveraging Teams Across Businesses
10:00 – Working On the Business, Not In It
11:00 – When a Lifestyle Business Becomes Bigger Than You
12:00 – The Biggest Scaling Mistakes
13:00 – Shiny Object Syndrome
14:00 – The Real Cost of Not Cutting Losses
15:00 – Hiring Mistakes & Hard Decisions
16:00 – Raising Prices with Confidence
17:00 – Why Systems Matter More Than Ideas
18:00 – Everything is Downstream from Lead Generation
19:00 – Marketing as “Dark Magic”
20:00 – The Reality of Entrepreneurship

All About Matthew:

Website: www.capitaltuitiongroup.com / www.tutoronboarder.com
Instagram: @capitaltuition @tutoronboarder
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthew-curnier-2bb20b257/
CTG FB: https://www.facebook.com/capitaltuitiongroup.