Preparing for Headship - Tuesday 11 November 2025 (Online)

Course outcomes:

• Learn about headship and its opportunities and challenges, including advice from a serving HMC head
• Understand your own development needs and career pathway in preparation for headship
• Increase your awareness of the application, interview and recruitment process for headship
• Acquire strategies for making an effective transition to headship
• Have the opportunity for structured reflection: how ready am I and how can I continue to prepare for future headship?

Course Leader Biography:

Jill taught for thirty years across six different schools in the UK, state and independent, and she taught adults to GCSE and A level in the evenings for several years.  She was a head for the last ten years of her time in schools.  Since 2010 she has completed a doctorate, researching the transition to headship and written a book about it: 'Making the Leap - Moving from Deputy to Head' (Crown House, 2016) https://www.crownhouse.co.uk/publications/making-the-leap (also now available as an audio book); and carried out an extensive range of leadership development work.  She has given a TEDx presentation on the subject of ‘Take a Second Look: Bring Out the Best in Yourself and Others’: https://www.ted.com/talks/jill_berry_take_a_second_look_bring_out_the_best_in_yourself_and_others and she has published four novels. See her author page:  https://www.amazon.co.uk/stores/author/B01JSM9UXI