The Strategic Headteacher · Leadership · From reactive leadership to strategic school improvement.
In this episode of The Strategic Headteacher, Nadia Hewstone talks to Anna Mackenzie about her journey from headteacher to trust leader and why she has now chosen to train as a professional coach. Nadia and Anna first met more than a decade ago as headteachers through a leadership network and book group. Their early experiments with coaching began after reading The Coaching Habit and practising on each other. Since…
In this short episode of The Strategic Headteacher Podcast , Nadia explores why reflection isn’t a luxury reserved for a reward but one of the most important leadership disciplines we have. As school leaders, we make hundreds of decisions every day. Over time, that constant mental load creates decision fatigue, making it harder to stay connected to our priorities and easier to slip into reactive leadership. In this…
When Finance Starts Driving School Improvement What happens when headteachers stop seeing finance as something that sits alongside school improvement and start seeing it as one of the tools that makes their priorities possible? In this episode of The Strategic Headteacher Podcast , Nadia talks to Michael about the often-overlooked relationship between financial decision-making and school improvement. They explore w…
Headteachers and their teams can easily become consumed by the urgent demands of running a school. But leadership needs to include anticipating and strategic thinking. In this episode, Michael and Nadia explore what it really means to ‘scan the horizon’ as a school leader. They discuss the importance of professional curiosity and creating space to think strategically. They reflect on the value of conferences…
In this debut episode of the Destino Coaching Podcast, Nadia Hewstone explores why inclusion has become the defining leadership challenge of our time. If you and you’re looking for practical ways to create meaningful, sustainable inclusive change in your school, join Nadia and her team at Destino Live - Creating Inclusive Change. A conference for school leaders who want to start rethinking how schools can respond to…
