Education leadership is complex with common patterns persisting across the leaders we coach. Stakeholders, external pressures and flux, and the emerging challenges at a local and global level are making an already tangled web, unfathomable.  

Leaders must be able to competently and confidently navigate uncertainty, lead innovation, and respond to challenges with clarity and foresight. But not all thinking is developed equally. To lead effectively, it helps to know when and how to think strategically, when to think systemically, and when to use systems thinking. 

At what point does being a leader really hit home?

In her first guest blog for us, our Associate Coach Maggie describes the moment it happened for her and shares her experience of growing into the leader that she is today.

“And this was it – the lightning bolt moment when I realised that I was the Headteacher and leader and should have all the answers.”