Mary Myatt is an education adviser, writer and speaker. She curates Myatt & Co where she works with colleagues to develop thoughtful work on the curriculum and wider school improvement. She trained as an RE teacher and is a former local authority adviser and inspector. Drawing on her work with pupils, teachers and leaders she writes and speaks about learning, leadership and the curriculum. Join us as we chat to Mary Myatt about her story, her philosophy and her top leadership tips. It is full of rich wisdom, whichever sector you may work in, there is a lot to learn from Mary.

One of the most important things that we do as a leader is pull our team together. A good team working with you can be incredibly powerful, but how do you establish a team? How do you choose the right people and grow them to be a high performing team? One of the teams that we have had the privilege of working with at Everyday Leader is the team at Dale Hall. It’s a team with a shared purpose and so join us in the Leadership Lounge to hear all about how they went about ‘Creating a team’.

With 33 years of experience empowering pupils and staff, Lizzie Girling is the perfect guest to join our discussion on 'Empowerment'. 

Join us as Lizzie and Colin discuss how to empower yourself & your team, and all that this effort entails

Our guest is none other than Kate Kelly! With years of experience supporting businesses, Kate is the perfect guest to explore Supportive Systems. Join us on the Leadership Lounge. 

Whether it’s a new project or a new organisation, starting from scratch can feel quite ominous. But there are some simple steps you can take to make the new venture a success. Join Colin as he interviews Richard Dedicoat the headteacher who is starting a new school from scratch. We will explore how the Purpose, Partners, People and Place can be pulled together to make it work.

Every leader has pressurised moments. In these moment our thinking can abandon us and so learning how to think clearly and correctly under pressure can help us manage the outcome. Vicki Gascogne Cecil joins us in the Leadership Lounge to explain how she managed her thinking in a highly pressurised moment. Colin and Vicki unpick the key things that can help each of us do the same.

Leading is all about taking people on a journey of improvement. When you build a business or establish any project of idea, it needs some core components to do that successfully. So, what are the core components of building a successful business? Colin meets Sarah Manning of Secure Stores Nationwide, who in the midst of a pandemic has established and built a successful container business. In this podcast we will explore, BUILDING BUSINESS and the core components like Purpose, Promise and Passion that help you build business or establish any project in any sector.

How do you turn your vision for something into reality? How do you keep on course with your vision when challenge comes? How do you decide whether to take a project on? Meet Heidi Franklin from Wild Play as Colin interviews her in an outside Leadership Lounge about how she turned her vision into reality and top tips we can gain from her experience.

A lot has happened over the last 18 months. Some of it feels challenging, maybe even a little bad. Some of it has created opportunities. If we just see things as a binary good or bad we can miss some important learning. This podcast, Colin gathers with two good friends to explore the last 18 months and see whether instead of seeing things through a good or bad lens whether we just explored it as a box of learning and how that helps.  

Those of a nervous disposition should know that this podcast contains the topic of ‘pants’. For some, you are now intrigued. But, if you don’t like pants talked about then please don’t listen. :)

Join us for this month's leadership lounge, where we will be discussing 'Coaching that empowers' with two guests.