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Dave Strudwick is Principal at REAL School; an innovative new school in Budapest focussing on making the world a better place. He’s worked as a teacher and leader in mainstream and specialist settings in the UK, US and China.  Dave is a published author with extensive experience around leadership, learning needs, habits and mental health. He’s been a Headteacher and co-founded three schools, including the UK’s first trauma informed school, for at risk youth, School for Inspiring Talents.  He also co-created the world’s youngest published scientists - Blackawton Bees and the i,scientist programme at the National Science Museum in London.

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Dr Steffen Sommer has been Principal of Doha College since September 2015. With over 25 years of experience in education, and having led three very successful British international schools across Europe, prior to taking on the headship at Doha College, his expertise in the field of education is substantial. Steffen is a well-known and active figure within the international education scene; he is Vice Chair of the Council of British International Schools (COBIS), and co-founder of the international division of HMC, a professional association of heads of the worlds leading independent schools. A family man and passionate linguist, Steffen has a PhD in Translation Studies and speaks six languages.

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Liz Free FCCT FRSA @LizAMfree is CEO & Director at the International School Rheintal in Switzerland, an IB World School.  She is also the Founding Director of the International Leadership Academy @BSNIntLA, Global Board member @TES_Institute and is the Strategic Lead  @WomenEd for Europe & Asia. 

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Brian Cooklin is an international educational leader who has led schools and delivered highly effective and influential educational projects in three continents over 23 years. As Managing Director for Nord Anglia India, Brian will lead the group’s strategic development and support the leadership teams of all five Oakridge International Schools (OIS), based in Hyderabad, Bengalaru, Mohali and Vizakhapatnam. The schools are part of the Nord Anglia group of schools, the world’s leading premium group of international schools, with 69 schools in 29 countries. Immediately prior to joining OIS, Brian was Principal of Nord Anglia International School Hong Kong. As the Founding Principal of this multi-campus K-12 school running the Cambridge and International Baccalaureate curriculums, Brian led the school to a number of achievements, including outstanding examination results, the highest possible ratings from the Independent Schools Inspectorate and rapid expansion. He was responsible for it developing in a few short years into one of the most highly regarded schools in the Nord Anglia Group. More recently, he led the school as it moved to Nord Anglia’s Virtual School Experience delivering enhanced outcomes for some learning groups and hugely positive student and parent reviews.

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Originally recorded in our 2nd Series, in this episode we welcome Professor Damian Hughes, an international speaker and bestselling author who combines his practical and academic background within sport, organisational development and change psychology, to help organisations and teams to create a high performing culture. He is the author of eight best-selling business books, including Liquid Thinking, Liquid Leadership, How to Change Absolutely Anything, How to Think Like Sir Alex Ferguson, The Five STEPS to a Winning Mindset and The Barcelona Way: Unlocking the DNA of a Winning Culture. He has also been nominated for the 2007 William Hill Sports book of the year award for Peerless, his biography of boxing great Sugar Ray Robinson. In 2013, his latest biography, Marvelous Marvin Hagler became the UK’s best selling sports biography. He was appointed as a Professor of Organisational Psychology and Change for Manchester Metropolitan University in September 2010. He is the co-host of The High Performance Podcast, an acclaimed series of interviews with elite performers from business, sport and the arts, exploring the psychology behind sustained high performance. He is currently serving as a member of the coaching team for Scotland Rugby Union and Canberra Raiders. His innovative and exciting approach has been praised by Sir Richard Branson, Muhammad Ali, Sir Terry Leahy, Sir Roger Bannister, Tiger Woods, Jonny Wilkinson and Sir Alex Ferguson.

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In this episode, Director of Persyou, Nicholas McKie talks to Kim Green who is the Head of School at International School Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.  As a leader of three programme IB World schools, Kim is committed to creating strong connections across the learning continuum through impactful leadership, a strong curriculum that leads to mastery, and mindful practices that place wellbeing first. Kim is passionate about building authentic frameworks for professional learning, leadership development, and removing linear roles and responsibilities in education.  She believes that leadership networks that synergistically deploy agile methodologies, courageously take risks to positively impact wellbeing and learning outcomes, ultimately unlock human potential and collective intelligence enabling innovation to embed into the fabric of the school community. 

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Lord Jim Knight works in education, digital technology and as a legislator. 
He is the Chief Education Adviser at Tes Global Ltd, advising on key strategic partnerships. He founded Tes Institute in 2014, which is now the fifth largest qualifier of teachers in England; he has also managed Tes Resources, a global teacher community of 13.5 million users. As a UK government minister his portfolios included rural affairs, schools, digital and employment. He was a member of Gordon Brown’s Cabinet 2009-2010, before joining the Lords after the 2010 General Election. He is also Honorary President of COBIS, on the Global Advisory Council for BETT, Chair of Whole Education, advises the London School of Commerce and is working with the social impact agency Purpose on teaching climate change.

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Jason McBride is an experienced international Head of School who is currently in his fourth year at United World College Thailand in Phuket. Having previously worked in Canada and the UAE as a school leader, he has spent the majority of his career with IB schools that were being founded or significantly expanded—including three schools in Dubai and Abu Dhabi—and across a range of programs from small to large, not-for-profit and for-profit. Born and raised in Toronto, Canada, Jason received undergraduate degrees from McMaster University (Bachelor of Kinesiology) and Queen’s University (Bachelor of Education), before pursuing a Master’s degree in educational leadership with Michigan State University and then Doctoral coursework at the University of Calgary. 

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Professor Deborah Eyre is a global educational leader, academic researcher, writer and influencer focused on helping good schools become world class. 40 years of her research culminated in the creation of the High Performance Learning philosophy and framework which re-imagines education and creates schools where almost everyone performs highly and students are able to perform well in school and in their later lives. In 2015 she founded the High Performance Learning Services Ltd to enable schools to adopt the High Performance Learning approach and become accredited HPL Schools. This approach is being adopted in schools across the worked with a growing number of HPL accredited World Class Schools.

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In this episode, Director of Persyou, Nicholas McKie talks to Irfan Latif, the Principal of DLD College London which was recently named UK ‘Boarding School of the Year 2020’. Irfan has been the Chairman of the UK State Boarding Schools Forum, the Vice Chair of the Boarding Schools Association (BSA) and is currently it’s London Chair. He also sits on the Executive Committee of the BSA as the Inclusion and Diversity representative and is the co-founder of the International School Consultancy’s Inclusion and Diversity Group. He regularly lectures at the Royal Institution of Great Britain, is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry. 

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