Georgia Bennett received her degrees in Business Management at the University of New Hampshire and at Eastern College. After serving as Associate Director of Admissions at Brewster Academy and as an educational consultant in Philadelphia, Georgia founded Bennett Educational Resources (BER) in 1991.

Georgia is listed in the Book of Leaders of Philadelphia and in Who's Who of American Women. BER was named to the Wharton School/Philadelphia Business Journal List of Philadelphia's 100 fastest growing companies. As President, Georgia oversees all of BER's consulting services and manages the company's corporate accounts. She is a member of the Secondary School Admission Test Board (SSATB), The Employee Relocation Council (ERC), and The Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM).

Georgia consults to individual students, parents and human resource managers in all areas related to education. She specializes in evaluation and placement of primary and secondary school age children in the US and abroad.

Kay Branaman Eakin, M.S.Ed., C.E.P

Kay Branaman Eakin, the lead international schools consultant, has been a consultant to BER since 1994. She has written extensively on reentry issues for children returning to their passport country from abroad. She has worked with students from preschool to college, some of whom have special educational needs.

Previously she was with the US State Department as the Education Counselor for foreign service families. She counseled families on educational options on assignment and return home, prepared a database on boarding schools, organized education workshops, and assisted in the writing and production of several videotapes on the mobility of children. She is a frequent presenter at various educational consultant conferences.

Kay has both her BS and MS in Education from Pittsburg State University, Pittsburg, Kansas. She has lived in seven countries in Europe, Africa, and Asia where she taught in both public and private schools. She has authored several books and articles including "According to My Passport I'm Coming Home", a chapter on reentry from overseas in "Strangers at Home", and "Education Abroad for Children with Special Needs", Expatriate Observer. She is a member of the Independent Educational Consultants Association (IECA) and ACCESS, a Washington, DC-based organization for educational consultants.

Mary Rabbitt, Senior International Consultant

Mary Rabbitt has worked in company-related international education consulting throughout her career. Her consulting work has included education site assessments, policy development, school management, curriculum planning, and placement.

Mary’s consulting and school management work has been conducted throughout the world, and most recently in Iceland, on behalf of companies in the energy, mining, finance, manufacturing, and pharmaceutical industries. Mary earned a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Kentucky and a Masters Degree in Public Administration from the New York University, Robert F. Wagner School for Public Service. She has served BER as Senior International Consultant since 2002.

Dr. Jon Tabbert

Dr. Jon Tabbert, a native of Chicago, has been based permanently in Europe since 1981, initially in Vienna, Austria and in London, England for the past twenty years. His firm, Jon Tabbert Associates, is BER's London-based affiliate assisting our clients in the United Kingdom and greater Europe. Following a successful career as a Dean of Admissions at several American overseas universities, most recently Richmond, The American International University in London, he became Senior Director of the International Office of the American Educational Advising and Consulting Organization, Howard Greene and Associates. In 1999, Dr. Tabbert founded Jon Tabbert Associates to provide guidance and assistance to families and corporations seeking support with school and university placements in the United States, the United Kingdom and continental Europe. Dr. Tabbert holds degrees from Bradley University, Minnesota State University-Moorhead and the University of North Dakota. He and his family make their home in Teddington, Middlesex. For more information, please go to: www.jontabbert.com.

Ansara Piebenga promotes Bennett Educational Resources to corporate clients, relocation providers, and associates. Prior to joining BER, Ansara was an Account Manager for four years with Cendant Intercultural and managed a portfolio of more than 35 accounts. With Cendant, she also project managed an international language and cross-cultural assessment project involving over 800 worldwide participants.

Ansara served as a U.S. Peace Corps Volunteer in Honduras as an environmental educator and consultant to a local non-profit organization protecting a threatened cloudforest national park. Prior to her years in Central America, she acted as a research consultant to the Environmental Protection Agency in Washington, DC and interned for the Quebec Labrador Foundation, an international community development organization in Canada and Maine.

Ansara earned her B.S. degree from the University of Michigan with a major in Environmental Policy and Science. She is a member of the Society for Human Resources (SHRM) and the Employee Relocation Council (ERC). Ansara is fluent in Spanish.

Carlyle W. Clark

Carlyle W. Clark, Senior Consultant, holds a BA degree from the University of Pennsylvania and an MA degree from SUNY-Albany in English Education. His extensive career of over thirty years in education includes positions in teaching, school administration, and educational consulting. 

C.W. served for several years as an instructor of English in both public and private schools. Subsequently he served as Director of Admissions at Brewster Academy, Wolfeboro, New Hampshire and at Charles Wright Academy, Tacoma, Washington; as director of Development at the Park School, Buffalo, New York; as Assistant Headmaster of Keith Country Day School, Rockford, Illinois; and as Headmaster of the Vail Mountain School, Vail, Colorado.

C.W.'s daily involvement with young people and his many contacts in public and private schools give him a unique ability to communicate effectively with BER client families and to facilitate the placement of their children in schools around the world.  Additionally, he holds a special needs designation from the Independent Educational Consultants Association (IECA) to serve those of all age levels with emotional or behavioral difficulties, including crisis intervention efforts.

Sandra Godfrey has a broad background in education and the corporate world. Her teaching in both public and private schools covers all levels from pre-school to adult in five different states. She has taught foreign language, English as a second language, reading, and elementary school. Sandra’s experience in a large international corporation engaged in educational publishing includes management at the national level. Her work with teachers, administrators, and state boards of education took her into public and private classrooms across the country. In overseeing the introduction of innovative foreign language and ESL materials, she trained teachers and conducted workshops nationwide. With a BS from the University of Minnesota, Sandra has done graduate work in foreign language and elementary education, and she has lived and studied overseas. Sandra is fluent in French.

Monica Reinhard comes to BER with nearly a decade of counseling students and families in a variety of settings. In addition to experience as a school and college counselor in a highly-ranked public high school, she has worked in admissions and counseling at a private boarding school, and at an alternative high school for troubled teens.

At BER, Monica works in secondary school and university placement (including graduate school) as well as consulting on special needs cases. Monica’s special needs consulting ranges from special education advocacy to school and college placement for individuals with special needs. Monica graduated from Bryn Mawr College with a B.S. in Psychologyand Education. Additionally, she holds a Master of Science degree from the University of Pennsylvania in Family and Adolescent Counseling.

Suzanne Morrison earned a B.A. degree from Haverford College and an M.A. degree from University of Iowa. She has taught at both the University of Iowa and Temple University and at the secondary level at Friends' Central School outside Philadelphia. Suzanne is also a certified ESL instructor and has lived in both England and Italy. In addition to her school placement consulting work for Bennett Educational Resources she tutors students in writing and reading.

Lindsey Boden earned her B.S. from Trinity College in Hartford, CT and a Master's Degree in Education from Harvard University Graduate School of Education. In addition to consulting at BER, Lindsey works for the Center for Psychological Services in PA, evaluating children who are applying to independent schools, as well as in the Admission Office at the Baldwin School.  Lindsey served as the Director of Admission at Tower School, a PK-9th grade independent day school in Marblehead, MA before moving to the Philadelphia area. She has also worked in admissions at Beaver Country Day School, a 6-12th grade day school in Chestnut Hill, MA and as a nurse's aid at McLean Hospital in Belmont, MA.