School Leadership Courses and Training

With years of experience designing and delivering training, I specialise in creating packages that go beyond theory—ensuring participants can confidently implement change that makes a real difference in their schools. Every course is designed to be transformational, grounded in practical application, and focused on impact. Above all, I believe professional learning should be a worthwhile investment—of both your time and your school’s resources. That’s why my training is engaging, evidence-informed, and well resourced.

I love working alongside passionate educators and leaders—and I’m here to help you take the next step in your journey.

Bespoke training courses can be designed for your school or MAT.

Summer term training courses highlights

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2024/2025 CPD programme for teachers and leaders

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Happiness at Work: Training and Coaching

If you are seeking a solution that raises employee wellbeing but also delivers on school wide benefits such as a more productive workforce, higher outcomes, improved workplace behaviours, reductions in staff absences, increased retention, greater stakeholder satisfaction, increased number of school goals achieved and higher levels of overall effectiveness - this could be the answer you are looking for. This is not just wellbeing, this is not tokenistic, this is about harnessing evidence from a wide range of industries on how happiness at work boosts outcomes and improves the employee experience of working in the organisation. Learn about the research, gain access to a 7 driver framework, take a new approach to assessing current levels of employee satisfaction, build a 3-year strategic plan that really will make a difference. Join one of our face-to-face events, book a strategic leadership half-day for you or your team, or get in touch to find out how you can be supported to apply the Happiness at Work theory to your school.

 

Training events can be designed for:

Senior leadership teams, assistant headteachers, middle leaders, teachers, teaching assistants and governors

Coaching for executives, headteachers, senior and middle leaders

If you have not undertaking coaching before, you might start by choosing from one of the eight coaching packages on offer.

As well as many years of school improvement experience, in which coaching plays an important part in the way I work with leaders, I now offer a suite specific coaching options for leaders. To further enhance my coaching skills, I have completed the Institute of Leadership and Management Level 7 Coaching and Mentoring qualification (pending) with the University of the West of England. This is a rigerous course that is ensuring my practice is high quality. Whilst it is not a quick form of development, coaching is certainly a high impact form of leadership development. If you really want to be a great leader and have a fantastic, high functioning leadership team in your school I would recommend investing in coaching. The return on investment will be worth it! My current clients tell me that it has "exceeded expectations", that all the sessions have been highly relevant to their work and that it has enabled them to be more effective as a leader. You can book a free discovery meeting to learn more about coaching and consider if it is right for you.

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Training feedback “Informative, useful, insightful and clear.” “Delivered superbly, good content, exactly what we needed, clear instructions.” “Absolutely fascinating and very, very informative day. Well presented, great pace with blasts of information and solid opportunities to discuss.” “Fantastic - thanks Vicky - loved it! Best course I have done for years!” “Time to think, investigate, talk and challenge ourselves.” “Vicky created a safe environment to discuss some challenging issues openly and in a reflective manner.  The content flowed and was supportive of the role/issues that come at this level of management.” “A well thought out set of concepts to get us thinking.  A great opportunity to spend some time reflecting on our practice. I’ve learnt a lot today! I feel empowered and motivated to do more, more effectively and armed with ‘tools’ to make me a better teacher.” “Excellent.  Thank you for this valuable training.” “Data workshop was very useful. I actually feel like I understand data and am looking forward to using it to help me plan for the future.” “Interesting to look at how trends can be followed and ways to use data to make decisions and influence what goes on for individual sets of pupils.” “Got me really thinking about extending my questioning technique, a great mix of participation and ideas.” “It was enjoyable and fun but thought provoking.  I will try out these strategies”  “Challenged me to think at a higher level.” “Very interesting / practical and WILL make a difference!” “A wealth of ideas and starting points presented and debated. Thank you.”