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From boarding to senior leadership: pathways, applications and interviews

Friday 4 December, 10:00 - 11:30

🏷️ Free of charge for TIOB members
🎧Boarding professionals and middle leaders with boarding responsibilities who are exploring academic or pastoral senior leadership roles.
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Course outline:
For boarding professionals considering their next career step, moving into senior leadership involves deciding which route suits their strengths and ambitions, and understanding how to present their experience effectively.
This interactive webinar explores academic and pastoral leadership pathways, including their responsibilities, priorities and expectations. Delegates will reflect on their career goals and identify how the skills developed through boarding – such as pastoral care, team management, communication and decision-making – can support their progression.
The session will then focus on preparing a strong leadership application and approaching the selection process with confidence. Through practical guidance and examples, delegates will explore how to demonstrate their impact and prepare for common interview tasks, questions and presentations.
Training topics:
  • Academic and pastoral leadership: responsibilities, priorities and career pathways
  • Assessing your readiness for senior leadership and identifying development needs
  • Recognising transferable skills and evidence of impact from boarding roles
  • Structuring a strong application and tailoring it to the role
  • Preparing for leadership interviews, presentations, data tasks and in-tray exercises
Learning outcomes:
  • Evaluate how academic and pastoral leadership pathways align with your strengths and career goals
  • Identify the skills and experience you can offer, alongside areas for further development
  • Articulate boarding-related experience and leadership impact in an application
  • Understand how to structure and tailor a leadership application
  • Develop practical strategies for preparing for common leadership selection activities

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Speakers:

Matthew Oakman, Headteacher, Saint Felix School

Having attended the Perse School in Cambridge, Matt studied History at Oxford University (St Edmund Hall) where he then stayed on to complete his PGCE (Keble College) before embarking on a career in teaching and education. Having spent three years at Bryanston School in Dorset as an Assistant Housemaster and teacher of History and Politics, Matt moved on to Wellington College. He then spent the next twenty-five years there at a time of great change and transformation for the College where he was able to play a significant role in this process; having been Head of Hockey, Matt became the first Director of Sport at Wellington before taking on the role of Head of 6th Form. This in turn led to a number of Senior Leadership roles at the College including Deputy Head (Pupil Performance), Deputy Head (Academic) and finally Senior Master. In 2023, it was time for a change and Matt moved on to become Head of Saint Felix School in Southwold. Here, he has undergone a programme of updating the facilities, introducing a new curriculum, implementing a mentoring programme and creating a bespoke Saint Felix Diploma. Matt is married to Rossana and they divide their time between Suffolk and Brighton; they have two gorgeous cats (Mia and Dillon) and enjoy life by the sea and in the countryside.

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Organiser

  • TIOB – The Institute of Boarding

Venue

  • Zoom