
London Borough of Havering Annual 2025 Headteachers’ Conference & Exhibition
Event Dates and Prices
Thursday 13th & Friday 14th March 2025
‘Leading Together 2025’
The London Borough of Havering 2025 annual two-day Havering Headteachers’ Conference is again being held at the Stoke-by-Nayland Hotel near Colchester. The Conference includes a varied and comprehensive Programme with eminent keynote speakers and an education suppliers exhibition on the first day of the Conference.
The event opens at 8.15am on Thursday 13th March and closes after lunch on Friday 14th March. Delegates wishing to attend should please register below.
Companies wishing to take a stand at this year’s event should kindly call us or email using the form at the bottom of this page.
Stoke by Nayland Hotel, Golf & Spa, Leavenheath
Event Speakers

Day 1 - Christine Counsell
Education Consultant, Honorary Doctor of Education at Anglia Ruskin University, lecturer at Cambridge University. Christine has published and edited many textbooks, academic books and articles on curriculum. Christine worked as local authority adviser in primary and secondary schools. Appointed Senior Lecturer at the University of Cambridge in 1997, she ran the university’s PGCE for 19 years and led on school-based mentoring of new teachers in all subjects. While at the University of Cambridge, Christine was awarded both the university’s Pilkington Prize for outstanding teaching and the university’s student-led award for outstanding lecturing. In 2017, Christine was awarded an honorary doctorate by Anglia Ruskin University. Christine has regularly advised the DfE and Ofsted, including in 2016 serving on the DfE Workload Solutions group, from 2017-19 on the Ofsted Curriculum Advisory Group that developed the current inspection framework, and subsequently delivering curriculum training for all HMI. Christine has worked closely with Havering schools on curriculum issues in the past.
Day 1 - Dr Jill Berry
Leadership Coach and Consultant. Jill taught for thirty years across six different schools in the UK, state and independent, and she taught adults to GCSE and A level in the evenings for several years. She was a headteacher for the last ten years of her time in schools. Since 2010 she has completed a doctorate, researching the transition to headship and written a book about it: 'Making the Leap - Moving from Deputy to Head'. (also now available as an audio book); and carried out an extensive range of leadership development work. She has given a TEDx presentation on the subject of ‘Take a Second Look: Bring Out the Best in Yourself and Others’ and she has published four novels. Jill is an advocate for the opportunities presented by social media for networking and professional development, on Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/jillberry102, on LinkedIn and blogging about education at https://jillberry102.blog/, author and speaker.
Day 1 - Dr Richard Gerver
Speaker and Author, expert in leadership, change and innovation; prolific author. Richard is one of the world's leading thinkers on human leadership and organisational transformation. A former globally renowned and life changing school principal, Richard offers a ground-breaking look into how society deals with the challenge of unleashing human potential and embracing and leading change in uncertain times. Richard's unique insight into our development from infants to adults helps us to understand the nature of our personal and professional responses to risk, change, creativity, and development. His ability to connect experiences across many, often seemingly different, environments help individuals’ companies and organisations expand their thinking and their own perception of their potential. Named UK Business Speaker of the Year three times, Richard is the author of several books on change, leadership, and innovation, including bestsellers Change and Simple Thinking. He is also one of LinkedIn Learnings’ most popular contributors, with two best-selling courses, Smart Thinking and Mental Toughness.
Day 1 - Nick Turvey
Senior HMI, London, Ofsted; former headteacher and executive headteacher. Nick is a senior His Majesty’s Inspector (SHMI) based in the London region. He is a qualified teacher and has taught in a range of settings. As well as inspections of schools, Nick inspects initial teacher education, early career framework and NPQ providers as well as inspections of local area provision for children and young people with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND). Within the London region, Nick oversees Ofsted’s developing work with multi-academy trusts as well as complaints received about Ofsted’s work. Nick is the link SHMI for five local authorities, including Havering. Prior to joining Ofsted, Nick held various senior leadership roles including as an executive headteacher in a Multi-Academy Trust. Nick has been an accredited local and national leader of education and Ofsted inspector. He has completed a Master’s degree and the NPQH. Nick’s main specialisms are in English and humanities as well as in leadership, governance and school improvement.
Day 1 - Professor Rob Coe
Director of Research and Development at Evidence Based Education and Senior Associate at the Education Endowment Foundation. He was previously Professor of Education and Director of the Centre for Evaluation and Monitoring (CEM) at Durham University, UK, and before that a teacher of secondary mathematics. He is a Visiting Professor of Education at the Centre for Mathematical Cognition at Loughborough University. Rob’s research covers educational assessment, evaluation and evidence-based practice, with a focus on working with teachers and schools to connect evidence and practice. He is lead author of the 2020 Great Teaching Toolkit: Evidence Review, the 2022 School Environment and Leadership: Evidence Review and the 2014 Sutton Trust report What Makes Great Teaching? and a co-author of the Education Endowment Foundation’s Teaching and Learning Toolkit. He is a member of advisory groups for a wide range of education, assessment and policy organisations. Christine
Day 2 - Ben Walden
Founder and CEO, Contender Charlie; international speaker and workshop leader in the realm of education and performer. He has been a main keynote speaker at many conferences in Europe, Asia, the Americas and Australia. He also works with many individual schools, looking at themes of leadership and inspiring communication with both staff and – especially – students. In the 1990’s, Ben played several leading roles in London’s West End theatre and as a member of the inaugural company at the new Shakespeare’s Globe. He has also spoken on leadership and the arts at many business conferences, including at both Harvard and Columbia Business Schools.
Day 2 - Professor Guy Claxton
Emeritus Professor of the Learning Sciences at the University of Winchester and Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the University of Bristol. His research focuses on the development of non-intellectual forms of intelligence in various contexts: schools, football clubs, therapy sessions and spiritual settings. His recent books include Intelligence in the Flesh, The Learning Power Approach, and The Future of Teaching and the Myths that Hold it Back.