Kate Williams worked closely with colleagues Sally Evans and Michael Baker to develop a programme to support school leaders to implement change in their schools. Commissioned by two Local Authorities, it supported 110 schools to respond to the Welsh Government’s 2021 framework: Embedding a Whole School Approach to Emotional and Mental Wellbeing.  We created a 4 x 1-day programme to increase participant’s knowledge and skills of project management, change management and emotional and mental wellbeing.

What has happened since? A participating school attained Healthy Schools highest award; another was awarded a Healthy Schools award. An Additional Learning Needs Parents Support Group has been created across a cluster of schools, with another school cluster creating a common set of approaches for addressing Wellbeing in a single geographic community.

Finalists in the awards category ‘Change Management’ at the Association for Business Psychology Awards 2023, this required entrants to demonstrate how they applied business psychology principles and practices to support organisations in managing change effectively and evidence to show how the approach resulted in successful change outcomes.