Kate has been working with the National Academy for Educational Leadership Wales, building teams, facilitating learning and running workshops, including presenting ‘Leading Change’ at the Head Teachers Annual Conference, 2023.

“Over the past five years, Kate Williams has collaborated with more than 50 educational leaders through the National Academy for Educational Leadership Wales. Her work with type coach, action learning, and system leadership has made a measurable impact, enhancing leaders’ capacity to foster collaboration and drive systemic improvement across Welsh education.” Mark Isherwood, Director for Leadership & Quality Assurance.

Part of the education reform journey, set out by Welsh Government as a key driver of high-quality teaching and leadership, Kate and a colleague Sally Evans, were commissioned to design, deliver and evaluate a pilot System Leadership Programme for the National Academy in 2021. Running the first programme during the pandemic meant much of the input was online. It was both novel and successful. The co-creation needed for developing and designing this cutting-edge programme was well served by Zoom meetings, allowing a diverse range of stakeholders to participate. The programme ran over 8 months with 18 participants learning about and applying the skills of system leadership in Education with impact measures taken post programme.

• Overall programme rating - 100% excellent.
• Participants have created a strong cross regional network who are continuing to develop and support each other. “The way we were supported into a position of openness and trust has led to the collaboration of leaders across regions and middle leaderships tiers’’.
• Knowledge and confidence in all key topics increased.