Leadership Guides

A lot of leadership advice feels like it was written by people who've never actually run a school. These guides? They're different. Because I have.

You're juggling hundreds of stakeholders, firefighting daily crises, and trying to lead strategically while everything feels urgent. Sound familiar?

What you'll discover:

✓ Managing Staff - How to keep everyone working at their best when you can't please everyone all the time

✓ Complex Decision-Making - Cut through analysis paralysis with techniques that reveal what you already know is right

✓ Working with Parents - Build the positive relationships that let you focus on your school's actual priorities

✓ Workload Management - Protect your capacity so you can sustain strategic leadership (not just survive each day)

✓ Managing Stakeholders - Break the cycle of competing demands before they break you

✓ Staff Wellbeing & Retention - Save recruitment headaches by creating a culture where people actually want to stay

✓ Change & Innovation - Lead transformation without overwhelming your team or compromising what already works

✓ Building School Culture - Create an environment where everyone thrives, not just survives

✓ Performance & Difficult Conversations - Address underperformance while maintaining supportive relationships

✓ Financial Leadership - Make strategic budget decisions that maximise impact with limited resources

✓ Crisis Leadership - Maintain calm, decisive leadership when everything feels uncertain

No theoretical frameworks. Just tested strategies for the real world of school leadership - where headship can be largely interruption and perfect solutions don't exist.

Perfect for headteachers who refuse to burn out.