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Dr. Helen Wright

Director

Global Thought Leadership

Dr Helen Wright is a highly regarded global leader with an energetic career spanning 3 decades in UK and international education. She led schools and held national and international roles in education in the UK and Australia for over 13 years until 2014, before embarking on an independent portfolio career in leadership recruitment, executive coaching and governance advisory. As a highly regarded International Education Advisor, with a warm yet determinedly incisive style, she challenges and coaches educational and other leaders globally to think and act ambitiously. She holds several Board Director roles, and she recruits international school leaders as an Associate of LSC Education. She currently works with schools, leaders and companies in countries including the UAE, China, India, the Netherlands and the UK.

SPEAKER SESSIONS

26 May, 2025 | 15:55 to 16:40
Armchair Discussion On life After Leadership
27 May, 2025 | 14:25 to 14:45
Wellbeing: what leading from the front looks like in schools

In this talk, Dr Helen Wright, former Head and now executive coach and consultant to schools across the world, will draw on her experience of coaching leaders in schools across the world to explore what really works in focusing staff wellbeing. She will seek to ignite ideas and insights and emphasise the importance of wellbeing starting with the individual, before the systems and structures needed to evolve in school can take root.

28 May, 2025 | 11:10 to 11:30
How 1-1 coaching works in practice – and why every teacher and leader deserves to have a coach

In this session, Dr Helen Wright, former Principal and now executive coach and consultant to schools across the world, will draw on her experience of coaching leaders in schools across the world to explore what coaching is really like in practice, why leaders and teachers should have a coach, and what they will gain from the relationship.