Venue: Wellington College
Dates: Monday 11th May 2026 – In-person
Facilitator: Katy Granville-Chapman and Emmie Bidston
“Reimagining leadership as empowering human flourishing.” Brooks, Lee, Bidston, Granville-Chapman (2020).
What is the nature of school leadership in the twenty-first century? What personal qualities are required to lead in a way that empowers high performing, flourishing teams and best serves the public good? What exactly is it that good leaders do to enable their teams to succeed? How do they think? What do findings from neuroscience teach us about effective leadership?
This short course has been designed to enable you to consider these questions and also reflect on the nature and purpose of your own leadership. It is practical, evidence-based and optimistic and is quality assured by the University of Oxford.
The topics covered on the course are:
- The power of everyday acts of leadership
- Values and performance
- Psychological safety
- The power of love in leadership
- What neuroscience can teach us about leadership
- Stress and leadership
- Vision for your leadership
Course Outcomes
- To consider the nature and purpose of your leadership
- To reflect on what you need to lead others in difficult and uncertain times
- To meet, with confidence, the challenges of leadership in your own setting
- Be equipped, via the assignment, to carry out initiatives in your school which will help create the environment for flourishing
Important Information
This is a core module for all leaders participating in the Certificate or Diploma for the Wellington Leaders in Education Programme. This Diploma is quality assured by Oxford University and accredited by the Chartered Management Institute.
This can also be taken as a stand-alone module and comes with a certificate.
The course comes with a practical assignment for participants to carry out in their school afterwards, in order to put into practice what they have learnt. Participants then have the opportunity to write up and reflect on what they have done in order to receive a certificate in leadership for the assignment. This has proved to be one of the most popular and effective parts of the course, as it embeds the knowledge and gives people confidence to try new initiatives.
Attendee Fee:
The 3 x 1hr30 online sessions costs £100 per person
The one day in person course costs £130 and includes refreshments and lunch.
The Bridge offer a 50% discount to all state/maintained schools and an 80% discount to Wellington College Learning Alliance and Forest Learning Alliance Schools. Discounts are applied at the checkout.
Registration and Booking
In person one day course – 11th May 2026