The Strategy Lab
Clarifying vision and integrating strategy for transformational impact.
We support Trusts and Schools to lead sustainable improvement with confidence.
Its common for school improvement to get lost within the day-to-day pressures of teaching, operational demands, and reactive decision-making. The Glass House Leadership Lab provides the external challenge, strategic development support, and structure to keep long-term goals on track and ensure sustainable progress.
We work with headteachers, senior leaders, and school trusts to support improvement planning, build leadership capacity, and implement positive change that sticks. Whether you're preparing for OFSTED, facing staffing challenges, or driving post-inspection improvement, we’re here to help you move forward, strategically and sustainably driving top quality education for your students.
We focus on:
> Strategic consultancy
> Workforce design
> Governance Systems
> Coaching & Facilitation
Strategy Co-Lab Bundle - Summer Offer
Exclusively for July we are offering a co-consultancy space designated to strategy development. This is a dedicated opportunity for school and trust leaders to work alongside an experienced thinking partner to clarify priorities, strengthen plans, and shape strategic direction ahead of the 2025/26 academic year.
Whether you're reviewing your current approach, preparing for inspection, or launching a new initiative, this space offers focused support, reflective dialogue, and practical tools to move your strategy forward with confidence.
Strategic Consultant
Trust and School Leaders are welcomed into a high-challenge, high-support space to shape strategy with clarity, coherence, and confidence. We take a deep dive into your organisation’s mission, vision, and values- reviewing your current strategy, priorities, monitoring processes, language, and accountability structures. Using evidence-informed frameworks, we help you align and evolve your core elements them into a coherent and comprehensive strategic plan that reflects your context and takes your organisation forward.
This partnership blends strategic consultancy with bespoke coaching and team development, supporting schools to design and implement effective change management strategies. We work alongside leadership teams to develop robust, developmental accountability structures that promote professional growth, clarify expectations, and keep improvement work on track — all while fostering a culture of transparency, collaboration, and high trust.
This service is tailored to you.
Future-Readying Your Workforce
Attracting and retaining great people is more challenging than ever. This course empowers school leaders to move beyond reactive recruitment and costly turnover cycles.
Future-Readying Your Workforce is a practical, thought-provoking programme that helps leaders develop a values-informed, strategic approach to workforce planning- placing culture, belonging, and purpose at the heart of recruitment, retention, and staff development.
Drawing on principles of systems thinking, strategy design, and collaborative problem-solving, this course equips leaders with the tools to understand workforce challenges in context and co-create sustainable solutions. Through critical reflection, real-world application, and feedback-driven learning, participants will learn how to design workplaces where people thrive, and choose to stay.