Highly experienced Leadership, Management, and Personal Development Coach, offering over 25 years of expertise in leadership roles within Further Education. Certified by the Institute of Leadership & Management (ILM) and qualified as a Myers Briggs (MBTI) Assessor. I specialise in helping individuals unlock their full potential focusing on aligning personal aspirations with strategic and operational goals. Through 1-1 coaching, I empower clients to play to their strengths, improve their performance and achieve meaningful outcomes.

An Ambassador for the charity ‘Their Future Today’ who supports women in Sri Lanka affected by gender-based violence and helps keep children in Sri Lanka out of orphanages and with loving families

Curriculum Director for Technical Industries and Skills for Life which includes Sport & Public Services, Key Stage 4, Science and Engineering, Construction, ESOL and various franchise provision. I am also the senior designated lead for Safeguarding.

‘Focus on people, transition and organisational development’An experienced and versatile senior leader and manager with significant experience in the Further Education sector. Specialism in turning around under-performing areas, raising standards of teaching, learning and assessment and coaching and mentoring individuals and teams at all levels to achieve high performance.

Responsible for the leadership and overall management of Feltham Skills Centre, the satellite vocational skills site of West Thames College which delivers a wide range of provision from level 1-3 in Engineering, Construction, Catering and Motor Vehicle. I also have the strategic cross college responsibility for Apprenticeship and 14-16 provision at both the Skills Centre and at the main college site in Isleworth.

Responsible for the leadership and direction of 5 curriculum teams: Science and A levels, Travel, Sport, Aviation and Public Services, Health & Social Care and Childcare, Business and Management and ICT & Computing and the strategic cross college responsibility for Apprenticeship and Pre-employment training programmes

Responsible for the overall management and direction of 7 curriculum teams including A Levels and Access, Science and Maths, Health, Care and Childcare, ICT, Business and Management, Travel and Sport,and the College's Supported Learning section.

I volunteered for 3 weeks for Shining Life Children's Trust at the Women's Development Centre in Kandy,Sri Lanka with my son to support with organisational development and fundraising. This involved us visiting numerous ground root projects delivered by WDC with the support of SLCT, delivering donations to schools and creches in 'hard to reach' areas and designing and delivering bespoke training programmes including packages on report writing, monitoring and evaluation, engaging 'hard to reach' parents in their children's learning and staff appraisal and objective setting.

Responsible for the management and direction of 7 College sections including Adult Education, International, General Education, Business and Management, Computing, Travel and Fitness and the College's Nursery/creche provision.

Responisble for the day to day management of Adult Education, General Education including A level provision and for International students.

Responsible for the management and coordination of A level provision

English Lecturer with cross college responsibility for Communications Key Skills

Assisted a research project for Professors of Sociology and Social Policy, Graham Crow and Graham Allen, which subsequently resulted in a number of publications including 'Changing Perspectives on the insider/outsider distinction in community sociology' (Community, Work and Family 2001) and 'Neither Busybodies not Nobodies: Managing Proximity and Distance in Neighbourly Relations (Sociology Journal Feb 2002)

Lecturer of English/Communications

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