Transformative Leadership Development For You And Your Team

Advance Your Leadership Performance

Step into The Glass House

Why Developmental Leadership?

Your leadership journey is both personal and professional, it has highs and lows, uncharted waters and exciting prospects. In the education sector, we deal with so much that navigating the next step can often feel reactive or overly directed by the system. No matter what stage you are at, our coaching, facilitation and consultancy works with you to design your own personal map for development, teaches you the tools to navigate it and supports you to plan your route.

Our true potential is often stifled by the day-to-day fire-fighting and lack of time to explore other factors (external and internal) that may be holding us back. The concept of developmental leadership acknowledges that leadership is a journey and at The Glass House Leadership Lab we believe that taking the time to understand yourself as a leader and build your own development, looking at where you have already been and considering where you would like to go is the key to flourishing as a leader.

The benefits of taking time to develop yourself are exponential and ripple into your team and organisation more widely leading to a cohesive and sustainable organisation that is matured by the flourishing people within it.

Two women sitting on white chairs talking. The woman on the left is drinking water, the woman on the right is holding a notebook.

Why The Glass House Leadership Lab?

The Glass House Leadership Lab was started to be a service for educators providing a safe space to explore their interests, motivations, strengths, values and gaps as well as challenge themselves and ‘break the glass ceilings’ for what they believed was possible for themselves and education more generally. Our mission has naturally expanded beyond each individual leader to also consider leaders within teams and organisations more widely and how real progressive change can be achieved across an organisation to transform the educational experience of the students we all serve.

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 through a new dimension, find new ways forward from resources you held all along and unleash your potential.

The Glass House Leadership Lab was founded by Dr Matt Silver as an accessible and non-judgemental space for leaders to explore and be guided in their ongoing journey.

What is your next step forward?

Step into the Glass House.

FOUNDER
As a former CEO and Headteacher of an outstanding special school Matt appreciates the challenges and responsibility of Leadership. He has a passion for designing meta-frameworks to address learning barriers and the challenges within the education sector more widely.
Matt has led the transformation of learner and colleague experiences and outcomes. To tackle the issues within unrelatable and disjointed learning content within SEND he developed Meaningful Mastery, a project-based learning curriculum for the 21st Century; which has provided extraordinary results across all aspects of school data.
This experience has expanded through curriculum, enterprise and new school design into further leadership roles including as Director of the National College of Education’s MBA programme and as vice-chair for the National Association of Pastoral Care in Education as well as an International Guest Lecturer .
As an experienced leader, coach and coachee Matt is driven to define best practice in education sustainability; by bringing whole teams together, seeing the value in each individual and aligning both individual and team vision. Matt believes that development is the missing piece to the education puzzle and that increasing the capabilities of leaders and learners alike to create coherent agency can allow leaps of progress and innovation to occur within the whole community.
Qualifications:
Doctorate in Education: Curriculum, Assessment and Pedagogy, UCL IOE; NPQ for Executive Leaders; Integral Trained Coach, ICC

Our Team

DIRECTOR
Anna is a Director of The Glass House Leadership Lab. Her passion lies within education and leadership and more specifically how information is made accessible across different formats and stakeholders.
As well as a background in Teaching Secondary Science and curriculum design, Anna is a registered Speech and Language Therapist and holds an MA Leadership in Education and Professional Diploma in Digital Learning Design. Anna applies her varied skill set within The Glass House Leadership Lab in designing and developing our content and collaborating in the creation of engaging and impacting development experiences for all our clients.
She strongly believes that communication is at the core of education and that by learning to communicate more deeply with ourselves through self-awareness, our teams through value alignment and our organisation through a positive and mature culture, we can create truly transformational learning experiences for students as they navigate their own development.
Qualifications:
MA Leadership in Education, Professional Diploma in Digital Learning Design, PGCE, BSc Speech Sciences

ASSOCIATE
As a former Assistant Headteacher working in Secondary Schools across London and South Yorkshire, (DSL, Pupil Premium Strategy lead, Y6/Y7 Transition and Trauma Informed Practitioner), Helen fully appreciates the challenges and barriers faced by school communities and the impact this has on school leaders.
Helen has led internal Senior Leadership programmes to foster coaching cultures in schools. This has supported the development of leaders, which in turn has led to positive outcomes for themselves, their teams and more importantly the students.
Helen has a passion for leadership values and behaviours. She works alongside leaders to help them to understand what drives their behaviours and how best they can motivate and influence others through; collaboration, trust and transparency. To support a more balanced, positive and sustainable way of working for themselves, their teams, their students and the wider school community.
Qualifications:
Batchelor in Education, NPQSL, EMCC Coach Practitioner, Trauma Practitioner