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Getting the most out of your boarding team
🏷️ Free for TIOB members, £135 for BSA members
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Course Outline:
The world of work has transformed – and with it, the demands on leaders. Increased complexity, rising expectations, and mounting pressure are now everyday challenges. In response, many leaders double down on familiar strategies: working harder, sticking to what they know, and hoping to weather the storm.
But these old patterns are no longer sustainable. Burnout, turnover, and mental health issues are reaching critical levels. The truth is simple: what got us here won’t get us where we need to go.
This session introduces the essential high-touch leadership skills that will define successful leaders of the future – skills that focus on connection, resilience, and conscious self-leadership.
Training topics
- Developing a growth mindset
- Managing stress and sustaining energy
- Building emotional literacy, connection, and relational depth
- Practicing self-care and honouring personal needs
- Tools and techniques to embed these competencies into daily leadership.
Learning outcomes:
- Understand the evolving expectations of leadership in today’s world
- Reflect on your own leadership approach and responsibility for change
- Gain practical strategies to lead with awareness, empathy, and impact—for yourself, your team, and your organisation.
Speaker: David Walker FTIOB, Executive Director, Boarding and Director, BSA/TIOB
David Walker has over 20 years’ experience in boarding education, having worked in a variety of schools across the UK and Africa. His career includes leadership roles in both senior and prep school settings, complemented by service as a prep school governor and trustee of a multi-academy trust. Before joining the BSA, David was Deputy Head Pastoral at a large co-educational independent school in the South-East, where he oversaw student welfare and pastoral care. His extensive background in safeguarding, boarding leadership, and governance gives him a broad perspective on the sector, enabling him to support schools in delivering outstanding pastoral provision.
