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Highly motivated, skilled and adaptable professional with notable experience across many educational and commercial organisations. An excellent communicator with strong interpersonal skills. Offers expertise in Leadership, educational theory, design and delivery of professional development to multidisciplined and diverse teams. An innovative and decisive problem solver with a strategic vision and a marked ability to build and lead highly successful teams.Key Skills• Professional Development Leader: Extensive experience in designing and delivering successful professional development courses. Resulting in the training of nearly 400 teachers within schools and 100 educators through consultancy provided to schools across the country. The design of these courses has led to improved outcomes for approximately 10 000 students across the country. Using different training and coaching models to achieve the best outcomes leading to a 95% satisfaction score for all courses. • Leadership: Experienced leader of multidisciplined and diverse teams within various organisations. Led and developed successful teams to improve the quality of teaching and learning resulting in at least 40 more students gaining higher qualifications each year, and over 1000 more students over the past 17 years• Project Management: - Consistently project managed full life cycle projects of varying complexities. Adaptable to different environments and ensuring effective organisation in line with organisations’ strategies. Leading to the successful implementation of teaching and learning projects across schools and other organisations. • Educational Consultancy: - Providing freelance educational advice to different organisations and charities to improve education across all situations. Currently advising Sopia Steria in a joint venture with the East London Advanced Technology Training (ELATT) organisation to develop an online platform to support adults such as low-skill office workers to gain the skills they need to progress their career. Provided support and professional development to 30 schools across the country whilst providing consultancy services for the Prince’s Teaching Institute• Educational Research: - Active participant in educational research, whilst working with the Education Endowment Foundation and other organisations to help Educators apply the most current findings in areas such as Metacognition, Educational Psychology and the uses of Retrieval practice

Listed skills include Teaching, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Design, Higher Education, and 24 others.