Transformative Leadership Development
Expand Your Performance
Dr Matt Silver
Founder & Lead Coach
As a former CEO and Headteacher of an outstanding special school, Matt understands first-hand the challenges, pressures, and responsibilities that leadership brings. Following from his own experience, he is passionate about supporting leaders to think clearly, act with confidence, and create sustainable impact across their schools and trusts.
Matt has a deep interest in designing frameworks that address learning barriers and broader challenges within the education sector. He has led the transformation of learner and colleague experiences through initiatives such as Meaningful Mastery, a project-based learning curriculum, which has achieved extraordinary results across learner outcomes and school data.
His experience spans curriculum design, enterprise, new school development, and extends into leadership roles including Director of the National College of Education’s MBA programme and Vice-Chair of the National Association of Pastoral Care in Education.
As an experienced Leader and Coach, Matt is driven by a belief that meaningful development is the missing piece in education. He supports leaders and teams to unlock their potential through value and vision , aligning vision across the team, and fostering coherent agency. Through this, he enables leaders to make confident decisions, inspire others, and create lasting innovation within their communities.
Matt’s approach is grounded, reflective, and human: he works alongside leaders to help them grow, navigate complexity, and realise both personal and organisational transformation.
The Glass House Leadership Lab started as a service for educators, providing a safe space to explore challenges, values and motivations and ‘break the glass ceiling’ for what they believed was possible for themselves and education more generally.
Our mission has naturally expanded to working with teams and organisations more widely in driving real progressive change can be achieved.
At The Glass House Leadership Lab we believe that true development and progress within education starts with the educators themselves and through our processes you can better make sense of your own leadership and development and find new ways forward from resources you held all along.
Transformational
Leadership
Your leadership journey is both personal and professional, it has highs and lows, uncharted waters and exciting prospects. In the education sector, the daily demands often leave little space to pause and reflect, making the next step feel reactive or overly directed by external pressures. Whatever stage you’re at, our transformational approach works with you to navigate complexity with clarity and confidence.
often, our potential is limited by day-to-day pressures and a lack of time to explore the internal and external factors shaping our leadership. Developmental leadership recognises that growth is a journey. At The Glass House Leadership Lab, we help you take the time to understand yourself as a leader, reflect on your experiences, and define the direction you want to take next. This process not only strengthens your clarity, confidence, and resilience but also shapes how your decisions, behaviours, and vision influence those around you.
Investing in your own development has ripple effects across your organisation. When leaders flourish, teams perform more cohesively, cultures become stronger, and organisations become more sustainable. By focusing on both personal growth and organisational impact, we help leaders create lasting, meaningful change that benefits people, teams, and the wider community.
How will you move forward?
Increase your self-awareness and understand your self more deeply
Build team cohesiveness and align team values towards a shared vision
Sustainably grow your organisation