Ron is an Assistant Headteacher at The Ridgeway School in Swindon and is a qualified NLP Practitioner and youth coach . His workshops have been hailed as outstanding and Ron is now in demand from schools across the country.
Damian is a serving Headteacher, is in his second headship, and has just returned from a secondment at another primary school. Over the last twenty years he has taught at a wide range of schools and been a head since 2001.
Richard has always been passionate about understanding how we learn. Together with Professor Burden of the University of Exeter he has developed an approach which is having a significant impact on the teaching of thinking in schools in the UK and abroad.
Nick spent 27 years in teaching, 10 of those as a Deputy Headteacher in a large and thriving comprehensive before setting up his own very successful education consultancy.
Fiona is a freelance educational consultant who has been involved with primary education for more than thirty years. She is passionate about children’s learning, and has had extensive experience in large and small schools, in rural and urban areas and has taught overseas.
Nanette has worked in most sectors of education – primary, middle, secondary and further education and until July 2005 was headteacher of a highly successful primary school in Hemel Hempstead.
Teresa is a former secondary Headteacher who maintained a career-long interest in both the creation of a relevant and enriching secondary curriculum and the development, for students, of transportable, personal skills.
Teresa is a former secondary Headteacher who maintained a career-long interest in both the creation of a relevant and enriching secondary curriculum and the development, for students, of transportable, personal skills.
Teresa remains particularly involved with the transition from school to employment, training and further education and the development of skills that are crucial to life and work. In 2002 Teresa joined HTI as a trainer in leadership behaviour and the development of high performing teams. In this capacity she works with school leaders of all levels developing bespoke training programmes to connect systems leadership with school development and emotional intelligence with entrepreneurship and creativity.
The development of the personalised learning and Every Child Matters agendas provided the impetus to explore further the connections between emotional intelligence and thinking and learning theory in which field Teresa has delivered training to numerous groups of middle tier educationalists and practitioners. Teresa is a Hay Group Emotional Competency Inventory Coach and a registered MBTI practitioner. Trained in the application of David Hyerle's Thinking Maps, Teresa has expertise in a broad range of thinking skills methodologies.
Teresa became an independent consultant in 2006, maintaining work for both HTI and Kestrel Consulting. She is a member of the Institute of Directors and has presented papers and led workshops at conferences in the UK, USA and Europe.