Andrew Hammond
Andrew Hammond is an experienced school leader, having worked in schools for over twenty-five years as a class teacher, Head of English, Director of Studies, Deputy Head Academic and Headteacher in both the independent and maintained sectors. He has delivered CPD in over 150 schools and is a regular speaker at educational conferences, both in the UK and internationally. A prolific author, Andrew has written over thirty titles for a range of educational and trade publishers. He is currently Headteacher at Hall School Wimbledon.
Katie Mobed
Katie is one of the UK’s leading Performance Psychologists, working in diverse arenas from the sports field to the boardroom, the helicopter pad to the operating theatre. Her clients include CEOs, Olympic Champions, Premiership rugby teams and educational leaders.
She has been embedded within Team GB for the last decade, supporting many of our most successful athletes and coaches at the London 2012, Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. She also works closely with business leaders to create environments where people thrive and delivers a range of inspiring, educational keynotes focused on performing under pressure, thriving through challenge, understanding neuroscience, creating high performance cultures and winning teams.
Her work with the charity 21st Century Legacy has helped over 250,000 young people develop key life skills and she recently co-authored the best-selling children’s book ‘You are a Champion’ with Marcus Rashford, which has sold over 450,000 copies. Outside her corporate and sport work, Katie runs a series of mindset and psychological skills courses for young people through the Moonshot Series, with a vision to support the next generation to manage life’s ups and downs and be the best they can be.
Katie lives in Leamington Spa, with her husband Remi and their daughter, Ayla.
Ginny Bootman
Ginny is an educator with over 25 years in education as a classroom practitioner, SENCO and former Headteacher. She is passionate for all things concerned with special educational needs. She has been published multiple times in the TES. Ginny has a deep understanding of the stages humans need to go through to reach understanding, successfully takes complexity and breaks it down into simplicity with humour and humility.
Ginny believes in an empathy based approach and putting ourselves in the shoes of others. She will discuss the 3 Ts of building up positive relationships with staff. Time, how to use our time wisely, how to triage our time and how to ensure meetings serve a purpose. Trust, how to build up trust in our team and ways to consciously connect with those around us. Transparency, giving those around us the full story means that they understand the thought process and time already invested into coming to certain decisions.
Pranav Patel
Pran Patel has 17 years of teaching experience working recently as an assistant principal. He has an exciting career in leadership; leading standards; behaviour; data; professional development, and curriculum. His NPQSL project was to lead whole-school coaching and has been a successful coach for over a decade. Pran has suffered from depression, anxiety and sleeplessness for much of his life; he firmly believes that we should accept and embrace these issues as illnesses. As such he firmly stands as a mental health advocate, he recently featured in the BBC documentary ‘Why teaching is making me ill’ and has spoken openly about the pressure of the education sector. As a man of colour, Pran ascribes as a member of the ‘Global Majority’. While at university in the year 2000 he started his journey on the anti-racist road. In his inspirational TEDx talk ‘Decolonise the Curriculum’ he describes the moment he realised that the world was tiered away from an authentic truth and that started with the school curriculum. In this vein he recently featured in the Sky News Film ‘Slavery in Britain: What don’t we know?’ Alongside Prof Davide Olugosa, Prof Christopher J Brown, Prof Diana Paton and Prof Olivette Otele.