After a long career in the public service and and working as a education consultant, Fleur built the data analytics platform PeopleBench to help principals, in particular, "build an organisational strategy that could set the direction for a school for the next years. As Flue pointed out, an organisational strategy is vastly different from the usual teaching cycles and decision-making that is short-sighted and doesn't articulate the values underpinning a school's ethos and ambitions.

Data analytics systems helps principals make purposeful, informed decisions about where their school stands compared to similar and dissimilar schools and can inform national debate surrounding national trends. Fleur states that principals are expected to be "experts in everything these days", but often they lack the training in organisational strategy and using analytics to inform sound decision-making.

While many principals rely on their "lived experience" and support from HR to run a school, additional coaching and evidence-based data will be needed in the future, Fleur says, to lift school workforce achievement.

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