Helping leaders shape
cultures where people and
communities can flourish.
Working with multi-academy trusts,
leadership teams and organisations
The challenge is rarely the vision
Most trusts know what they stand for. They have values, strategies, and improvement plans. They know where they want to go. What is often harder is creating a culture where people feel connected to that journey and inspired to help shape it.
Not simply understanding the vision, but helping to co-create it.
Two headteachers can work within the same trust for years and never have a meaningful conversation about the children they serve. Senior teams can find themselves carrying more than they should. Schools can share the same values and improvement priorities whilst experiencing the trust in very different ways.
When that happens, people can find themselves working within the same organisation without necessarily feeling part of something shared. A trust feels very different when its leaders feel empowered to shape its future, yet empowerment rarely emerges by accident.
It grows when people have the time, space, and trust to think together, build meaningful relationships and contribute to something shared. In schools, where so much of the work is immediate and reactive, those conditions can be surprisingly hard to create.
This is what I mean by relational capacity.
And this is the work I do.
Helping leaders, teams, and organisations create the conditions where people feel connected, contribute meaningfully and become part of something bigger than themselves.
A Single Collective.
Ali Durban
Director
Over the years I have become less interested in strategy on its own and more interested in what allows people to bring it to life together.
The difference is rarely the vision.
It is the quality of the relationships behind it.
Thinking something through?
Drop me a line→No pitch. Just thirty minutes to think out loud about what you are noticing in your trust, leadership team or organisation, and whether this work might be helpful.