Michael Barber joined McKinsey in September 2005 as the expert partner in its Global Public Sector Practice. In this capacity, he has been working on major challenges of performance, organisation and reform in government and the public services in the USA, UK and other countries.
Prior to joining McKinsey he was Chief Adviser on Delivery to the Prime Minister. As head of the Prime Minister’s Delivery Unit he was responsible for the oversight of implementation of priority programmes in health, education, transport, policing, the criminal justice system and asylum/immigration.
Between 1997 and 2001, Michael Barber was Chief Adviser to the Secretary of State for Education on School Standards. In this role he was responsible for the implementation of the British government’s ambitions and hard-hitting school reform programme including successful programmes to improve literacy and numeracy at primary level, tackle school failure at all levels and contract out failing local authorities.
Pat Collarbone taught for 28 years in inner London and established a reputation for innovation and achievement during her headship. In 1996 she established the London Leadership Centre at the Institute of Education, University of London. She is noted as an outstanding speaker and frequently delivers presentations on leadership development and remodelling at national and international conferences.
In May 1999 she was appointed to lead the development of the National Professional Qualification for Headship, now a mandatory qualification for all new headteachers in England.
In September 2002 she was seconded from the Institute of Education as Director of Leadership Development Programmes at the National College for School Leadership (NCSL). She was a Director of NCSL and the Director of the National Remodelling Team within NCSL until March 2005, when the NRT transferred to the TDA. During her time as Director of NCSL she oversaw the development of a number of leadership programmes including Consultant Leaders and NPQICL.
Pat received a DBE in 1997 as an acknowledgement for her services to education.
Coaching has been Frank’s raison d’être for decades, inspiring world-beating performances from some of the top names in sport – Daley Thompson, Boris Becker, Gerhard Berger and Katarina Witt. He has also worked with high-achievers such as Denise Lewis, Ronnie Irani, Justin Rose, Marat Safin, Ipswich Town Football Club and Jean Todt (Ferrari Formula One Manager). In business, he has helped develop a coaching culture in British Telecom, Unilever, Shell, Abbey National and Rolls Royce. His expertise derives from years of detailed research into individual success and achievement. His contribution to sport and coaching has been widely recognised – he was awarded the OBE in 1989, inducted into the UK Coaches Hall of Fame in 1999, and was given the prestigious title of ‘UK Sporting Hero’ by Sport UK in 2001.
He combines this wealth of knowledge and experience into an informative and motivational approach to achieving long-lasting transformation of both individual and team performance.
Since May 2003 Maggie has been working at the National College of School Leadership where she is the Operational Director responsible for Every Child Matters and Standards. Her work at NCSL includes working with other sectors on a multi agency team development programme, the setting up and support of the new National Professional Qualification in Integrated Centre Leadership (NPQICL) for early years leaders, supporting local authorities on the Change for Children agenda, promoting a learning to lead in communities programme for school and community leaders and the development of a range of leadership development opportunities for leaders of extended schools.
Her last teaching post in London was as Deputy Head of Haggerston School in Hackney. She then moved to Birmingham to work with Tim Brighouse where she set up the University of the First Age, a national charity which develops extended learning experiences for young people in school and community settings. She has also worked with the DfES on the development of extended learning and partnership programmes that involve the community and voluntary sector.
Michael Fullan is the former Dean of the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto. Recognized as an international authority on educational reform, Michael is engaged in training, consulting, and evaluating change projects around the world. His ideas for managing change are used in many countries, and his books have been published in many languages.
Michael Fullan led the evaluation team which conducted the four-year assessment of the National Literacy and Numeracy Strategy in England from 1998-2003. In April 2004 he was appointed Special Advisor to the Premier and Minister of Education in Ontario.
His widely-acclaimed books include:
Christine Gilbert CBE was appointed as Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector, Ofsted by Her Majesty the Queen in Privy Council and took up the post on 1 October 2006. She has spent 18 years in teaching, 8 of these as Headteacher of Whitmore High School in Harrow, before taking up the post of Director of Education in the same borough. She joined the London Borough of Tower Hamlets in April 1997 as Corporate Director (Education). Before moving to Ofsted, she held the post of Chief Executive of the London Borough of Tower Hamlets for six years.
Daniel Goleman lectures internationally to business audiences, professional groups and on college campuses. A psychologist, who for many years reported on the brain and behavioral sciences for The New York Times, Dr. Goleman previously was a visiting faculty member at Harvard.
Dr. Goleman’s 1995 book, Emotional Intelligence, was on The New York Times bestseller list for a year and a half, with more than five million copies in print worldwide. His 1998 book, Working With Emotional Intelligence, argues that workplace competencies based on emotional intelligence play a far greater role in star performance than do intellect or technical skill and that both individuals and companies will benefit from cultivating these capabilities. It became an immediate New York Times bestseller.
He has received many journalistic awards for his writing, including two nominations for the Pulitzer Prize for his articles in The New York Times, and a Career Achievement Award for journalism from the American Psychological Association. In recognition of his efforts to communicate the behavioral sciences to the public, he was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He was recently ranked one of the top ten business intellectuals by the Accenture Institute for Strategic Change.
Andy Hargreaves is the Thomas More Brennan Chair in Education in the Lynch School of Education at Boston College. Its mission is to promote social justice and connect theory and practice in education.
He has written numerous books on culture, change and leadership in education that are available in many languages. His most recent book, written with Dean Fink, is Sustainable Leadership.
Jim Knight was elected MP for Dorset South in June 2001. Between 2001 and 2003 he was a member of the Defence Select Committee. Jim was appointed Parliamentary Private Secretary (PPS) to Rosie Winterton MP at the Department of Health in 2003, before going on to serve as PPS to the Department of Health’s Ministerial Team in 2004. Following the 2005 General Election, Jim was promoted to Minister for Rural Affairs, Landscape and Biodiversity and continued to work at DEFRA until he became Minister of State for Schools and 14-19 Learners in May 2006.
Stephen Lewis is one of North America’s most respected commentators on social affairs, international development and human rights. In 2005 TIME magazine named him one of the 100 Most Influential People In The World (in the same category as The Dalai Lama and Nelson Mandela) for his life-long dedication to social causes and improving the human condition.
In 2001, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan appointed Lewis as his Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa. The Stephen Lewis Foundation
As Chairman of NCSL’s governing council, Vanni is instrumental in advising and guiding the College. For thirty years he was a Partner (for twelve of them Senior Partner) at Macfarlanes, a major City law firm, specialising in corporate law and international transactions. He is now Chairman of Korn/Ferry International, The Equitable Life Assurance Society and Intertek Group Plc, and has in the past been Chairman of three other public companies and, until recently, of Channel 4 Television Corporation and of London Business School, of which he is an Honorary Fellow. He is a member of the Council for Industry and Higher Education, a Governor of Sadler’s Wells, a Trustee of the J Paul Getty Charitable Trust and Solicitor to The Royal Academy. He holds an MA in Jurisprudence and an LLM in International Law and writes and lectures regularly on boardroom topics, especially corporate governance.