Expertise

Ben supports school leaders on strategic planning, teacher professional development and balancing autonomy and control in school leadership. A particular feature of his consultancy is supporting leaders to find ‘sweet spots’ between encouraging individual creativity and strategic uniformity, what Ben calls ‘Judgement Leadership’. Through individual coaching, group workshops and larger seminars, Ben encourages school leaders to develop adaptive mindsets as they consider the best ways to lead whole school change.

Ben is an experienced former class teacher and has been a teacher educator for fifteen years. He understands how to nurture professional growth in novice teachers and how to inspire (and re-inspire) experienced teachers. Ben works with individuals and teaching teams, as well as early career teacher (ECT) mentors to develop professional capacities including teacher judgement, critical classroom decision-making and organising learning.

For almost thirty years Ben has worked with teachers and school leaders in rural and township communities in South Africa. This includes establishing international school and university partnerships, sustainable infrastructure development projects and intercultural exchange. Working with primary, secondary and SEND schools, local authorities and universities in multiple locations, Ben has decades of firsthand experience leading on international development, project management and school improvement. For more information about this area of Ben’s work please visit the Project Zulu website. [insert Project Zulu website link www.projectzulu.org]