Waltham Forest and Redbridge School Business Professionals Conference & Exhibition

Dai Durbridge - Browne Jacobson LLP

Dai is based in Browne Jacobson’s Manchester office and heads up the firm’s education team in the North West. He advises schools, academies and colleges on frontline education matters, including school admissions and exclusions, parental complaints, disqualification from childcare settings and GDPR. He is also a leading expert on safeguarding in education, chairing and speaking at numerous national conferences and writing articles and providing comment for the sector and national press. From supporting schools with allegations made against staff, peer on peer abuse and student mental health issues, to serious case reviews and Ofsted inspections Dai has been on hand to help schools with the full range of safeguarding challenges.

Dave Keeling

Dave Keeling is an Actor, Comedian, Writer and Stand Up Educationalist who delivers highly engaging programmes for Laughology. As a facilitator, presenter and trainer, Dave has worked nationally and internationally in business and education for the last 20 years specialising in change management, improving teamwork and communication, developing creativity and enhancing wellbeing.

Nick Saunders

Nick Saunders has over a 25 year track record as an international keynote speaker and trainer. He specialises in communication, collaboration and conflict resolution – enabling those in schools to work together more effectively. He is the author of the No.1 bestselling book “You can choose your friends…”. Nick is known as The Family Man because he demonstrates that workplaces are like families; you can choose your friends but families and work colleagues you’re stuck with. However, you can still get on with them and Nick illustrates how…by turning relationships into results. Put simply, he is a Collaboration and Practical Communications Specialist who helps those in education turn relationships into results. https://thefamilyman.co.uk/

Sue Hugo

Sue is a skilled facilitator for a number of Education Support Partnership’s action learning and supervision programme for headteachers called Headspace. also delivers the Positive Workplace Programme, and its accompanying training. She is in frequent demand to present at conferences on the themes of creating thriving workplaces and Headteacher and senior leader stress resilience and wellbeing. Sue’s commitment to education has enabled her to recognise the challenges - and joys - of working in this demanding and remarkable profession. Her knowledge and expertise, combined with her innate ability to understand the people within the education sector makes her an invaluable resource for Education Support. Sue comes from three generations of teachers. Throughout her teaching career, spanning 21 years, she worked in England secondary schools, taught English and Drama abroad, and was a drama examiner in the southeast region of England. She joined Worklife Support (an earlier incarnation of Education Support Partnership), in 2002 and over the next 12 years worked as a Regional Consultant for the east of England, working in collaboration with local authorities and schools from Essex to Derbyshire. Sue was part of the team that spearheaded the large-scale rollout of Worklife Support’s Well-Being Programmes across Suffolk, which at one stage covered 75% of the schools in the county.