Empowering Women in Leadership Conference
CONFERENCE AIMS
This conference is designed to empower, inspire, and equip women in school leadership roles with the tools, strategies, and insights they need to thrive. Through a dynamic programme featuring expert speakers and stimulating sessions, delegates will explore topics ranging from the challenges women face in leadership, enhancing personal well-being, and creating a culture of support within schools. With a focus on resilience, growth, and fostering equity, this event is a unique opportunity to connect with like-minded professionals and gain actionable takeaways to lead with confidence and impact. The conference promises to be an empowering and transformative experience for women leaders in education. dedicated to advancing women in leadership.BENEFITS OF ATTENDING
- Understand the current landscape of women in educational leadership and learn how to drive meaningful change
- Develop practical strategies for managing well-being, reducing stress, and setting effective boundaries
- Connect with peers, experts, and allies who share a commitment to advancing equity in leadership
- Learn how to address specific issues like menopause in education and supporting diverse well-being needs
- Take away actionable strategies to energise your work, inspire your team, and enhance your school culture
Programme
9.55am
Rosie Hussain, Director of Teaching & Learning, Keynote Educational
10.00am
- Current representation of women in leadership roles within education
- The progress made and the challenges for women in advancing to senior leadership positions
- How far we have come and how far to go
- The impact of allyship to support equity
Rosie Hussain, Director of Teaching & Learning, Keynote Educational
10.50am
- Gain a deeper understanding of how to approach various areas of wellbeing effectively, including emotional and social wellbeing
- Using balanced thinking to establish and nurture the culture of wellbeing
- Take away practical easily implemented strategies to support your own and your students’ wellbeing
Katharine Radice, Education Consultant
11.40am
12.00pm
- Setting boundaries which help and support your development as a leader
- Making the most of your experience to help you develop your team and inspire others
- Carrying responsibility lightly: ways to reduce stress in the workplace
Katharine Radice, Education Consultant
1.00pm
2.00pm
- How perimenopause and menopause can affect our health and wellbeing within schools and educational institutions.
- Creating a menopause aware culture and supporting staff through menopause and perimenopause
- Building a menopause strategy that works for your organisation.
Helen Clare, Menopause in Schools Expert
2.50pm
2.55pm
- How you view yourself as a leader and as a person
- Psychology of change management
- Gibbs self-reflection model
Rosie Hussain, Director of Teaching & Learning, Keynote Educational
3.45pm
Leadership - Code: C0007
Empowering Women in Leadership Conference
London | Friday 21 March 2025
SPEAKERS
Rosie Hussain is Director of Teaching & Learning at Keynote Educational, has an MBA in Senior Leadership in Education and is a highly experienced and innovative classroom practitioner, with over 20 years in leading departments and delivering high quality T&L training. She has a wealth of skills and expertise as a Head of Psychology as well as leading research and development in a secondary school and sixth form college. As an AQA A-Level Examiner and Fellow member of the Chartered College of teaching she prides herself in providing high impact evidence-based practice in order to improve teaching & learning in education.
Helen Clare helps schools and teachers deal with challenges that arise due to perimenopause and menopause. She does this through talks, workshops, support groups, 1 to 1 sessions, courses, and policy support. An ex-biology teacher and life-long biology geek, she has also worked in schools as a poet and artist and as part of her work for Creative Partnerships and Arts Council England. Helen is also an ICF trained coach and an associate of the British Menopause Society. She’s also a textile artist on the quiet – and these days that’s about menopause too!
Katharine Radice is an education consultant specialising in dispositions which facilitate academic progress and personal growth. Katharine has a broad range of experience: she has taught in independent and maintained sector schools and at undergraduate university level. She has worked in mixed, single sex, boarding and day schools and studied adolescent development at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust. She brings to the sessions her practical perspective on classroom teaching, middle and senior management roles. Previous attendees have described her training sessions as inspiring, thought-provoking, full of practical advice and engaging.
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