Explore the balance between personal leadership presence and practical skills.
Engage in tasks that will enable you to reflect on the importance of cultivating authenticity, building trust, and developing strong team dynamics.
Leave equipped with both the relational and tactical tools needed to inspire and guide your teams.

In a competitive market for both staff and students, the way that leaders design and articulate their school’s unique approaches and strengths matters. This session explores six questions that every school leader needs to articulate a response to. Every school has a version of vision and values, and every school has an improvement plan but there is space for some important thinking and design in between. Come along to sharpen your school’s long term development plan or to rethink it in order to stand out.

This is a high-impact session designed for school leaders who want to accelerate improvement through strong, values-driven culture. Explore how trust, shared purpose, empowered teams, and meaningful recognition can transform your school environment and drive lasting change. Grounded in research from Visible Learning, the EEF, and leadership experts like Fullan and Lencioni, this workshop offers practical strategies, real-life examples, and immediate takeaways. If you're leading ambitious change and want to bring your team with you - positively, purposefully, and sustainably - this session is your launchpad.

Leading an international school requires a particular and acquired skill set – particularly in Dubai (UAE) where there are significant external pressures and where everybody is from somewhere with different experiences (or limited experience) of what is effective and constructive leadership.

In this session John will articulate the lessons learnt over many years leading schools and leaders, the top tips, what to watch out for, the soft and the hard skills to lead the leaders in an international school environment.

Driving school improvements by microshifts in cultures and practice.