Bosses’ bible teaches screen-fixated pupils how to strive and thrive (Sunday Times)
They worked for corporate titans and now the leadership techniques taught by a bestselling American business guru are working for British schoolchildren. The high-powered world of building relationships, achieving goals and completing personal mission statements has arrived in UK schools, [...]
Leader in Me
I am writing this whilst flying from Phnom Penh to Saigon, it's a 40-minute flight which allows me to reflect on my travels. I’ve had the luxury of bonding with my 18-year-old son Elliot in Cambodia and Vietnam for 10 [...]
Be The Change
This summer half a million teenagers are taking Michael Gove’s new tougher GCSE’s that are big on rote learning and memorising excessive volumes of facts. Course work has gone and teaching to the test has reached epidemic levels. The harsh [...]
The Dutch Golden Mean
One of the major differences between Dutch and British schools is that we focus much more narrowly on academic achievement. Imbedded in the Dutch psychic is the golden mean philosophy that emphasizes the healthy median of moral behaviour. It warns [...]
How to Improve Mental Health in Your School
Why did Holland rank first in the world in the 2015 PISA study for the emotional well-being of their children in schools? And, why does Holland have more Leader in Me schools than any other country in Europe? The answer [...]
Solving the Well-being Mystery
Our schools are under such enormous pressure to produce results that a teacher’s role by default is fundamentally to help pupils achieve academic success above all. Resulting in children believing that academic excellence is the sole purpose of their education. [...]
Leadership for Everyone in Your School
Leader in Me is a process designed to help you transform your school in the areas of Leadership, Culture, and Academics to establish a leadership model - where everyone is empowered to be a leader, starting with the adults, then [...]
Three Things Important in Education: Mental Health, Mental Health, Mental Health
Successful living requires purpose. Without purpose there is no sense of resolve or determination, no reason for which something is to be learnt or done. In saying this, what is the purpose of our education system? Surely, it’s not to [...]
Playing Russian Roulette with our Mental Health
Something has gone drastically wrong in the last 25 years. We are in a national crisis. And it’s reached a critical state where our country’s mental health is under the spot light and undeniably of great national importance. The issues are only going to escalate [...]
The Leader in Me Delivers Results
The Leader in Me can work in any school. It is customisable, allowing schools to integrate the process in a way that works best for them. Regardless of country, socioeconomic status, urban or rural setting, we all want the same [...]
Developing Leaders to Create an Outstanding School
Edinburgh is fast becoming my second home. We have 13 ‘Leader in Me’ schools within 45 minutes’ drive from the vibrant Scottish capital. On a recent trip, I trained the full staff of Ormiston Primary School as they started their [...]
Character Trumps Academics
During August, I travelled around the country delivering the ‘7 Habits of Highly Effective People’ course to teachers. On the 17th of August, the day of A-level results, I delivered this training programme in one of England’s top independent schools [...]
Why the Dutch Children Don’t Need Stabilizers
This summer I went to The Hague to attend an education conference and visit some Dutch schools. Afterwards, whilst walking from the hotel to catch my train back to the airport I had to slow down because a four-year old [...]
Kings’ School Winchester – Our 7 Habits Journey
Kings’ is a highly successful secondary school that achieves outstanding academic results and we pride ourselves on doing a good job of preparing our pupils for life beyond secondary school. Balancing our academic provision with a diverse range of extra-curricular [...]
Educating the Whole Person
I have three teenagers, and I’m always wrestling my thoughts on how best to prepare them for independent adult life. It concerns me that our schools don’t provide any real-life skills training for them and that the world outside of [...]