Nick speaks predominantly about Authentic Leadership, creating a culture of Belonging, Dignity and Fulfilment and the magic of the perfect balance of Empowerment and Accountability.
Schools are busy places with an ever widening set of demands being made on them.
- We often get lost in the day to day;
- We can become buried under bureaucratic burdens;
- We forget why we were drawn to this exciting profession.
He likes to inspire school leaders and all school staff by reminding them:
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This can be particularly important when a school community is going through a period of significant change, for example:
- a restructure
- an amalgamation
- a reorganisation
- a new build
- a change in direction
- joining an academy
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After 10 successful years in the North East as Headteacher at St Benet Biscop Catholic High School, where he received the Queens Award for Enterprise Promotion, Nick moved to Barnsley to set up Horizon Community College.
As Principal Designate, he managed the closure and amalgamation of two failing schools to form a state of the art £50 million school for 2,300 students.
As Principal, Nick successfully navigated the school through significant change, experiencing all the issues above, yet managing to retain and recruit quality staff, get parents on board and significantly raise aspirations and outcomes for young people.
As Executive Principal, he managed the Barnsley Schools Alliance, leading on school improvement across the borough and led Horizon, one of the biggest secondary schools in the country, to join an excellent two primary school academy trust: HCAT, enabling it to grow substantially, taking on another 12 primary schools.
For many years, Nick was a Headteacher Ambassador for the Youth Sports Trust, the Women’s FA and the Career and Enterprise Company.
South Yorkshire
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