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
> Strategy coaching
> Strategic 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
Addressing the recruitment and retention crisis in education, this five-day course empowers you to innovate your workforce strategy and design your culture and systems that future-ready how you attract, develop and retain talent.
Through practical tools, collaborative design sessions, and insights from leading frameworks, you will explore how to recruit, build and retain high performing teams. This course empowers you to align workforce planning with evolving educational needs, respond to systemic challenges, and create environments that keeps your talented staff. By the end of the course, you will have a clear, actionable roadmap to transform your workforce strategy for long-term impact
Teacher turnover costs English schools an estimated £20 000 per teacher in recruitment and training.
(NFER, 2025)
Employees who feel aligned with company values are 41% less likely to leave.
(SHRM, 2025)
A strong organisational culture can reduce employee turnover by up to 50%.
(Glassdoor, 2019)
