Today’s guest on the Education Heroes Podcast is Ben Witheford, Principal of Shotover Primary School in Queenstown. With over 25 years in the education game and the last 16 as a Principal, he has a keen interest in creating environments that enable professionals to do their work. Ben is highly skilled in building effective teams, coaching, authentic curriculum design and building coherent, learning-focussed cultures, which all shine through in this conversation.

In this episode, Ben chats to Paul about his interesting journey to Principalship, his honest experience as a leader of a brand new, high-growth school, and shares helpful coaching tools he uses with his team.

Connect with Ben on LinkedIn.

Links

• Discover Hero for Schools
• Follow Hero on Twitter @Heroforschools
• Follow Paul on Twitter @sibsonp
• Connect with Hero on LinkedIn

The Education Heroes Podcast is hosted by Paul Sibson, Co-founder and CEO of Hero.

If you know a heroic leader in the education space, or would like to share your own leadership journey with listeners, we’d love to hear from you. Reach out to us at [email protected].