Maggie has worked in London and Birmingham in senior leadership positions in Schools and Local Authorities. She was the Director for Leadership Development, Research and Succession Planning at the National College for School Leadership in England and interim Chief Executive.

She has been instrumental in the development of a school led self-improving system in England and has led the design and development of leadership programmes that support the growth of system leadership and the development of cluster based approaches to school improvement.

Her work now focusses on the ‘inner life’ of school leaders working to help leaders thrive and flourish in the complex world of school leadership. She is a trained mindfulness teacher with the Oxford University Mindfuness Centre. She is currently working with MAT CEOs, school leaders and their teams on the cultivation of greater ‘leadership presence’, as a way of reducing stress, anxiety and overwhelm and increasing leadership learning, effectiveness, wellbeing and resilience.

She is a Trustee of two Multi Academy Trusts and of The School of Contemplative Life.

You can find out more about Maggie and access free leadership resources through her web site https://www.empoweringleadership.co.uk/

She was awarded the CBE for services to Education in 2014.