As a teacher, leader and teacher trainer, Paul has been working with the most difficult behaviours in the most challenging contexts for the last 27 years.
Miraculously Paul studied at Homerton College Cambridge after countless attempts to sabotage his own education. He is a speaker in high demand, engaging huge audiences in practical ways to transform their classrooms, relationships and schools. Paul also works with Leadership Teams to create seismic shifts in culture and behaviour.
Paul fell in love with teaching while working as a Teaching Assistant after leaving school. Teaching both inspired and drew him in due to the creativity, the variety and the cohort after cohort of utterly brilliant children he encountered.
Paul has delivered training and spoken on large stages all over the world, advised the English Department for Education on Teacher Standards, given evidence to the Education Select Committee and carried out extensive work with the Ministry of Justice on Behaviour and Restraint in Youth Custody.
His book, ‘When The Adults Change, Everything Changes’, published in 2017 by Crown House, has sold more than 150,000 copies. The follow-up, ‘After The Adults Change’, was published in 2021 and has been a best-seller on Amazon.
In September 2023, Penguin Random House published ‘When The Parents Change, Everything Changes’.
Paul is our first keynote of the conference.
Solat Chaudhry is the visionary founder and current Chief Executive of the National Centre for Diversity, established in July 2005. Solat has worked passionately in the field of Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion for over 20 years. Working to support victims of discrimination, harassment, and victimisation.
Under his leadership, the National Centre for Diversity has become a leading voice and advocate for FREDIE – Fairness, Respect, Equality, Diversity, Inclusion, and Engagement – a field in which Solat is widely recognised as the UK’s foremost authority.
Instrumental in shaping comprehensive frameworks for workplace inclusion, Solat pioneered the nationally recognised standards ‘Investors in Diversity: Bronze, Silver and Gold’, setting benchmarks for organisational practice. He also conceptualised ‘Inclusion IQ’, a tool designed to elevate understanding and implementation of diversity in leadership contexts, and spearheaded the ‘Personal Inclusivity Development Programme’ aimed at nurturing senior leaders’ capacity for transformative change.
In addition to his UK-based impact, Solat serves as the Executive Chairman of the Irish Centre for Diversity, further extending his influence and dedication to promoting fair fair treatment, mutual respect, and active engagement within organisations.
With a career marked by innovation, thought leadership, and unwavering dedication to equality, Solat Chaudhry remains a pivotal figure driving systemic change and championing inclusive excellence across industries.
Solat will be speaking on Monday at 1.45pm
Founder Courageous Leadership Consultancy & The Academy of Women’s Leadership – Co-CEO & Founder Enabling Leaders – Leadership Coach and Trainer – Consultant Head Teacher – Author
With 22 years’ experience leading secondary education, a successful head teacher in London and then as an executive head, Diana works at the cutting edge of leadership development. She is known as a resilient school leader, skilled in urban leadership under challenging circumstances. Diana has substantial success in developing school wide models that strategically enhance the quality of leadership across the organisation.
Diana was a school inspector for 9 years with developed expertise scrutinizing school wide leadership systems.
Diana co- founded Enabling Leaders- a platform to bring innovation in developing shared leadership language and culture across organisations- using precise professional conversations underpinned by innovative technology.
With a proven track record of developing leaders via bespoke training programs, Diana founded Courageous Leadership; specializing in supporting leaders to grow the leadership cultures of their organisations and to flourish in confidence, Diana has focused expertise in supporting head teachers facing challenging circumstances and is the author of 3 leadership books.
Diana will address the conference on Tuesday morning; she will also host a workshop on the same day.
Kheron Gilpin is an engagement specialist with over 15 years of experience in boosting participation and enriching engagement in the education and community sectors. A renowned motivational speaker, he routinely delivers keynote speeches for cross sector industry professionals on international stages.
Kheron began his work in education by delivering impactful motivational assemblies and workshops for young people across the country. While still enjoying this direct delivery, Kheron now leverages his expertise to train and consult student services professionals and teams of student facing staff.
Driving Kheron’s passion for engagement is his lived experience as a ‘hard to reach’ young person failed by the education system. He strongly believes that engaging education can unlock the potential of all young people. His commitment to inclusion and cross-cultural collaboration has led him to be enlisted as an ambassador for the Tutu Foundation, working to promote the transformative African philosophy of Ubuntu (I am because you are) around the world.
Kheron will present the conference finale on Tuesday afternoon; a session not to be missed!
