Meet the team
Our team lives and breathes “Achievement through Caring” and enabling people to reach their full potential.
Our Core Team
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Sarah Finch
Chief Executive Officer
What I love about my job: Working with our family of schools, connecting with the children and young people and watching them grow, thrive and achieve.
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Cavelle Priestley-Bird
Executive Director – Alliance of Leading Learning
What I love about my job: Developing leaders of change and harnessing the energy and expertise of our school leaders to drive school improvement.
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Gemma Hargreaves
Professional Learning Business Manager
What I love about my job:
Supporting our delivery clusters to bring our programmes to participants and seeing them progress in their professions.
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Kate Aspinall
Business Development Manager
What I love about my job: Securing the best learning provision and providing opportunities for people wanting to join teaching as a profession.
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Helen Lloyd
Lead Professional Learning and Conferences Coordinator
What I love about my job:
Every day is different, always busy, but interesting and varied and the colleagues I work with are fun, friendly and supportive.
Miriam Marais
Lead Administration Coordinator
What I love about my job:
I love supporting participants through their programmes. It is a busy department with something different going on to get involved in.
Delivery Teams
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Claire Turner
Director of Learning
What I love about my job: I love seeing the energy and enthusiasm in schools, the lightbulb moments, the creativity and the teamwork.
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Simon Bramwell (OBE)
NPQEL Consultant Facilitator
What I love about my job: I love sharing my knowledge and experience in leading groups of schools.
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Paul Fisher
NPQH Consultant Facilitator
What I love about my job: I believe that everyone matters and I am in a profession that constantly strives for improvement.