Governance

Peter has led a very successful education advisory consultancy since 2011. The client list includes school improvement commissions for several national multi academy trusts, inspection contracts with Ofsted and education advisory contracts with the Department of Education, including working directly to Sir David Carter in his National Sponsors Unit. 

Peter has considerable experience as a senior leader in secondary schools. He was a serving practitioner working for Ofsted as an additional inspector and was later seconded to Ofsted full time. He then joined CfBT, Ofsted’s inspection service provider in the north as Senior Managing Inspector, with special responsibility for schools causing concern in the primary and secondary phases. His particular expertise is in school improvement, quality of education and leadership and management. 

Peter has been an Associate Vice Principal of an outstanding multi academy trust in the North East of England working across their two secondary three primaries and a academies, three primaries and a studio school as well as Interim Executive Principal and CEO of an 11-18 academy in the West Midlands. Peter currently holds a number of Trustee positions on multi academy trust boards. 

Commenting on the new role Peter said 'I am delighted to be taking up this exciting opportunity and to be working with committed professionals who have at the heart of everything they do, the very best interests of their students.'

Jay is an Independent Financial Advisor. He became a Financial Services Authority authorised and regulated Financial Advisor in 2002 and created his own Financial Services company in 2005. Jay's company, One & All Financial Services, now has advisors based in 4 offices across the UK.  The bulk of his work falls under the remit of 'Financial Planning' on a personal and business basis, including mortgage advice, pensions, retirement planning, cashflow reviews and insurance.   

Alan has many years’ experience in economic development, including the management of regional strategy development agencies in London and Greater Manchester. Throughout his career, he had responsibility for strategy and project development in 3 major industrial sectors and worked in over 40 countries. Alan has also been involved in local race relations and other community organisations as a volunteer, and local politics. He has been appointed to a series of school governing bodies over 20 years, including a special needs school, infant/junior schools, a state comprehensive and a grant aided grammar school. He has also been a Chair of a governing body and  been a member of the governing body for Poynton High School. Alan retired in 2013 and now his activities include Tai Chi practice, pilates and painting with local art groups and classes. 

Julie's professional background is primarily in human resources, she spent 20  years working for Xerox, starting as a trainer then moving into human resources and ending her career as a Customer Satisfaction and Quality Manager. Julie then moved to AstraZeneca, initially as a HR Business Partner and eventually became a Communications Manager. Julie feels that the opportunities she had with both these leading employers significantly improved her communication and interpersonal skills and gave her a great understanding of people and of business. 

Grenville joined TTLP as he was looking for an opportunity as a Trustee in a Multi-Academy Trust that has ambitions for growth and is committed to excellence, where he would be able to use his skills and experience to add real value to the Trust Board.

His non-executive and trustee experience from across sectors contributes to the much wider strategic agenda well beyond his professional background in finance, governance and risk management. Following a career across the public sector (local government, NHS and civil service) and with a passion for cross sector collaboration and innovation, Grenville moved out of full-time employment almost 10 years ago to manage a dynamic portfolio career, non-executive/trustee roles, interim work and consultancy assignments. During this time he has accumulated over 50 years of non-executive/trustee experience including chairing Finance, Business Performance, Audit & Risk, Governance and Remuneration Committees across sectors. 

Grenville has experience leading the on-going development of an independent Audit and Risk Committee within the education sector, steered its risk-based work programme across the spectrum of the overall framework of governance and control, exercised scrutiny of financial plans and in-year monitoring reports, overseen financial accounts closure to agreed deadlines, recruited other independent members, appointed both external and internal auditors and overseen their performance.
 

Within his consultancy work he has been engaged by a few academies and undertaken due diligence work for prospective mergers; governance and financial control review, driving forward improvements including setting up and chairing Audit Committee and developing a comprehensive scheme of delegation; board development and training, and development of risk registers.
 

Grenville currently has other non-executive roles in health, social care and housing and is an independent member of the Audit Committee for the Greater Manchester Combined Authority. 

Clare is the Head teacher of St Thomas More Catholic High and has celebrated many achievements with the school over the last seven years. She has over 25 years of experience in education and her strength is identifying and inspiring emerging talent, coaching and training to ensure a climate of aspiring leaders. Clare has proven success as an LLE, Executive Head teacher and the Diocesan Secondary Adviser.  

Clare is an associate of the EducareM charity which seeks to help educators to deepen their knowledge and understanding of the ways in which they can enable young people in their schools to become people of challenge, change and transformation. The formation and training Clare regularly leads both locally and nationally focuses specifically on creating a culture that promotes visionary leadership, scholarship and social awareness allowing schools to become a haven of activity, excitement, and inspiration. 

Clare is passionate about the impact education can have on a young persons life as she herself continues to nurture her own curiosity and learning through new opportunities and experiences. 

Lucy has had many years of experience as an educationalist: from the music classroom of her first role as teacher in a comprehensive school, to her final role in the UK as Trust Head teacher for a small academy trust in Birmingham. Throughout her time, Lucy’s guiding principle has been to ensure that every student on her watch has the best opportunity to succeed on their chosen path. Now living and working between the Netherlands and the UK as an independent education consultant, Lucy uses coaching and mentoring skills to ensure that school leaders are empowered to think strategically and deliver high quality school improvement. Out of school hours she will most likely be found pottering in her own, or the neighbourhood garden.

Sheni is currently the System OD & Leadership Lead for Greater Manchester NHS Trust, working across whole public service system, based at the GM Health & Social Care Partnership. Sheni most recently has been the Strategic OD & Wellbeing lead at NHS Nightingale NW field hospital based in Manchester during the pandemic response and is leading on the Wellbeing and Inclusion system across the city region.

Focused on what makes good work, and how the Wellbeing and Inclusion of our workforces are vital to nurture people to be their best. Sheni comes with an experienced portfolio of working across culture and leadership programmes from health, local authorities, emergency services, young people, VCSE, creative digital, the cultural sector and creative industries. This includes developing leadership, wellbeing and inclusion programmes, complex partnership and system working, talent development pipelines, organisation design and skills development, culture and change programmes through organisations, communities, cultural organisations, festivals and education programmes - and has worked with GMCA, GM Fire & Rescue Service, SharpFutures, Manchester International Festival, Manchester City Council, the Cultural Olympiad We Play Expo, Curious Minds, Tate Liverpool and GMMAZ / Brighter Sound.

Sheni is a coach and mentor, and has sat on various boards and advisory groups, has a parallel career in cultural and creative production, and is a Short Clore Leadership & Creative Leadership Programme Peach alumni.