Ben Gibbs Email & Phone Number

Greater London, England, United Kingdom

Working with individuals, teams and whole organisations to facilitate and support effective change, growth and development. Through our work, we help new or experienced leaders to develop their capacity to manage complexity, we support teams and departments in becoming more effective, and we provide insights that guide whole organisations through change..

Restart-Ed provides leaders in schools and school trusts with coaching, organisational consultancy and professional development services.Through my coaching I offer a supportive space for leaders - as individuals and teams - to consider how they show up at work and how the experiences they bring shape their effectiveness. By helping them better understand.

I provided a range of services to clients in the schools sector, including research and analysis; strategic consultancy; business and product development; coaching; and organisation development. My portfolio was a mix of short- and long-term engagements with clients looking for quick impact based on an objective analysis of their needs, or for a deeper.

Cambridge, England, United Kingdom

Supporting candidates for the ARU’s online Education MBA programme, as part of the School of Education faculty team.

Supporting Integrity Coaching's development and delivery of school improvement programmes and executive coaching for school leaders.

This innovative start-up was developing an holistic (and very elegant) solution to support and improve whole-school wellbeing. My role as Change Lead was twofold: (a) to help ensure that the solution has the impact we want it to have on the experience of the young people and teachers who use it, and (b) to help schools realise the fullest benefits of their.

Helsinki Area, Finland

Driving development of the Finnish Global School model, sharing Finland's awesome (and wildly successful) approach to student-centred school design, strategy, leadership and practice.

Cambridge, United Kingdom

I supported RF as both a consultant and P/T employee between 2015 and 2022. I oversaw several school-focused projects, including a three-year grant-funded programme exploring the importance of relationships in effective alternative provision (https://www.integrated.org.uk) and a project exploring how parents, students and teachers experienced schools.

Following a period of consultancy, I was employed part-time at the Education Support Partnership - a charity supporting the wellbeing of teachers and support staff in the education sector - between July 2015 and July 2016 to lead strategic planning, partnerships, and business development during a period of organisational change. I supported the development.

My role was to support teaching and management activities at the school by taking advantage of new opportunities and policies, and by helping the school do what John Dunford calls "looking out, not up". In practice, this involved developing relationships with local, national and international organisations to help achieve strategic, capital, professional.

While managing Cambridge Consultants' media relations activity - including oversight of retained agencies in the UK and the US - we managed to significantly increase coverage in national and trade media, including features in The Economist, The Daily Telegraph, New Scientist, BBC World Business Report, and Sky's Jeff Randall Show Live.

In seeking to market the ‘3rd stream services’ of the Business School at ARU, my role was to secure fee-income from organisations that required financial and management services support, and to develop new international partnerships.

As part of a small unit, I was initially responsible for the design and delivery of validation services for a number of large commercial education and training providers around the world. The post was almost entirely client-facing, involving extensive travel to Asia and the Middle-East, managing teams of examiners and overseeing the assessment of.

Consultant with RSAcademics Ltd, providing strategic marketing, market-research and PR consultancy to UK independent schoolsContract with the DfES Business Development Unit, forming links between 'big business' and the government's education department in support of national education initiativesContract at the Islington Arts & Media School, working with.

Postgraduate Diploma (Pgdip), Consulting & Leading In Organisations: Psychodynamic & Systemic Approaches

This two-year Masters-level course develops participants as leaders, consultants or managers by informing a fuller understanding of the.

Level 7 Award, Organisation Development & Design, Merit

Organisation Development & Design The OD&D workshop - a five-day residential course at King's College, Cambridge - provided an opportunity.

M.Ed, Education

2003 - Educational Management in Action 2004 - Leading & Managing for Effective Education 2005 - Child Development in Families, Schools.

Pgce, Education

Including two research projects - ‘Future Schools’ project - a UK, Canada and USA project examining the potential of technology enriched.

No Accreditation, Educational Assessment And Curriculum Design

I participated in the University of Melbourne's MOOC course - offered through Coursera - in the Assessment & Teaching of 21C Skills..

Ba (Hons), Sociology & Philosophy

Activities and Societies: Broad liberal arts style modular degree with particular focus on post-modernism, early psycho-social studies and.

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