Senior school leaders set the course for a school, and middle leaders make sure that we navigate successfully.  A high performing leadership team is one of the greatest assets that makes the greatest difference to the education of students.  School leaders who work together as a truly cohesive team, speaking the same language, sharing the same values, united in vision and living the positive culture of the school can achieve great ambitions.  Where a team is not cohesive, where vision is not clear, and culture is inconsistent, it is impossible for everyone in the community to thrive.

I can work with your school leaders individually and collectively to ensure that everyone is effective in playing their necessary and valuable part in securing the very best educational experience for your students.  We can make sure that school vision is clear and shared.  We can clarify roles and responsibilities so that the collective effort is efficient and effective.  We can check that the systems and processes in place enable high performance. 

Using evidence-informed approaches, and an appropriate blend of leadership theory and practical skill-building, I ensure that all leaders have the very best opportunity to thrive, succeed and constantly improve through the reflective culture of self-improvement that you create.  If one of your school leaders needs 1:1 guidance to meet your expectations, I ensure an appropriate balance between high challenge and high support to do so.

What leaders say about my Leadership Development and Improvement Support

We were a team of long serving and new to post senior leaders and needed to refresh our approach.  You helped us to develop our shared vision which is now clearly communicated and visible across the school.  We are already making better use of meeting time and staff have commented that line management is much improved.

I liked the way that you drew out our principles from conversation with the team and reflected them back to us.  When someone asks you what your principles are it is hard to state them, but what we have is an accurate summary of our values and what we want for the children in our school.