Walking in leaders' shoes - our leadership experience
How many times have you worked with a professional who hasn’t walked in your shoes or experienced the daily challenges you face? As leaders, we are often challenged by external professionals who may be far removed from what we are experiencing on the ground. This is why it’s important for you to know what leadership experience Strategic Excellence Consultancy is able to draw upon.
Senior Educational Consultant and founder of the company, Helen Channing, is able to effectively draw upon the following experience:
Headship (including as a teaching Head) within four very different schools in three Local Authorities and one Multi Academy Trust over a period of twenty-one years, until October 2023.
Successful leadership validated by Local Authority School Improvement Partners (2002 – 2011), the CEO and Directors of a Multi Academy Trust (2014 – 2023) and cited by Ofsted in six inspection reports.
Extensive leadership experience including academy conversion, leading a school community through unprecedented times ie a global pandemic and managing deficit budgets, as well as successfully upholding the following roles:
- Designated Safeguarding Lead
- Designated Lead for Looked After Children
- Multi Academy Trust Hub Lead (10 schools)
- Multi Academy Trust Hub Safeguarding Lead (10 schools)
- Leadership and development lead, developing staff at all levels within own schools and beyond (including designing and delivering Senior Leaders’ and Curriculum Leaders’ professional development materials)
- NPQH mentor
- ECT tutor
- Induction mentor for new Principals
- Principals’ Performance Management reviewer
- NAHT registered mentor (current)
- Co-enquirer in termly whole school enquiries – evaluating the work of academies and
- compiling reports for Principals, Directors and CEO
- North Yorkshire Local Authority Schools Forum member
- Arete Learning Trust Governor for Stokesley Secondary School (current)
- Multi Academy Trust Lead for Northern Hub Music Enrichment Annual Event
- British Council School Link for St Joseph’s Infant School, Jamaica
- SENDCo
- Curriculum and Assessment Lead
- Graduate Teacher Programme development working party member
- Leader of Specialist Speech and Language and Autism Unit