After 18 years as a secondary head I now work as a consultant on school leadership. work CV: Performance Management consultant for governing bodies in Lancashire and Cumbria. Support for school leaders in Brazil.2011-2019 Consultant to the Diocese of Lancaster working with secondary headteachers.June 2019, working visit to liaise with school leaders in Alagoas, Paraíba and Rio Grande do Norte.2018, article on English public education published in the summer edition of the Boletim Técnico do Senac, the Brazilian equivalent of the Times Educational Supplement.July 2017, led workshops on school leadership in Votuporanga, São Paulo state sponsored by the British CouncilMarch 2017, invited to join the International Editorial Council2016 an article comparing the challenges facing Brazilian and English school leaders published in the autumn issue of O Boletim Técnico do Senac.September 2015, spoke at an International Seminar on School Leadership organised by UNIBANCO in São Paulo.November 2014, led a 15 day residential course for outstanding Brazilian headteachers at the National College for School Leadership.August 2014, invited by the British Council to be keynote speaker at an International Seminar on School Leadership in Brasilia organised by CONSED [the National Council of Secretaries of State for Education]. July 2013, gave a presentation to the principals of Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil. I also spoke at an International Conference on Teaching in Votuporanga, Brazil. October 2012, lead speaker for a conference for headteachers in the Archdiocese of Liverpool. October 2010, keynote speaker at the National Languages Conference organised by the Specialist Schools and Academies Trust in Birmingham.I also provide training for school governors, school leaders and teachers.Another area of interest is education in Angola, a country in which I worked for four years where I was employed by the United Nations Development Programme UNDP.