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Karen Burns, CEO of Victorious Academies Trust, is speaking at Optimus Education's conferences
Speaker
Karen Burns
CEO
Victorious Academies Trust

Karen has been working in education for over 25 years, and was appointed as Chief Executive Officer of Carillion Academies Trust in 2016. She subsequently decoupled sponsorship from Carillion and created a new entity, Victorious Academies Trust, which is now a medium sized Trust currently consisting of a group of 13 primary schools in Tameside and Derbyshire and with further schools under application to join. She works across the wider regional and national system, supporting and facilitating training and also attending round table discussions for educational organisations. She supports other Trusts regionally and nationally and has a mentoring role for newly appointed CEOs on behalf of the DFE. At a local level, Karen is the school improvement partner for several schools outside of the Trust. She facilitates training across the UK delivering NPQH and NPQEL programmes and has been a keynote speaker and/or Chair at several national conferences. Karen is the Chair of the Tameside Schools’ Forum Committee and is a Trustee at White Rose Academies Trust and a member of the Achievement and Improvement Committee for the Challenge Academy Trust. She also sits on the North West Regions' DFE Advisory Board.