John Greenhalgh

John is the strategic partnership lead in the Carnegie School of Education and enjoys creating and nurturing two-way developmental strategic partnerships with a range of schools and trusts in the Yorkshire area. He is a developer and training facilitator of leadership CPD courses. He is passionate about leadership development and training. He understands just how important outstanding leadership is, and the incredible positive impacts that it can have on schools, departments, staff and students.

He is also a university lead mentor and a Level 5 Certified Coach and was previously the Lead Assessor for the deep dive quality assurance process for the Department for Education into Senior Mental Health Lead training provision, and programme manager for the suite of leadership qualifications licensed by the DfE including NPQEL, NPQH, NPQSL and NPQML.

He has over 22 years’ experience in education and began his teaching career in a large sixth-form college, leaving after 14 years, 12 of which were as Head of Department. During this time, he implemented curriculum changes and developments tailored to meet students’ needs, allowing his department to remain an Ofsted grade 1 department. Most recently, he was a Head of Department in a private all-girls’ school where he implemented developmental changes aiding in his department become the highest performing in the school. He is also currently serving as Lead Examiner and Lead Assessment writer for AQA, which also sees him help to develop new specifications, train new examiners and write training for teachers.