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✅ On a work break, establishing ‘The Halen Partnership’ - an advisory and consultancy support service for schools. ✅ Please reach out via DM or email 🏆 Visionary founding principal and educational change leader with over 35 years of experience transforming premium international education across the UK, France, Switzerland, and Saudi Arabia. 🏆 Demonstrated excellence in establishing and scaling new educational institutions, most recently as founding principal of Saudi Arabia's first all-inclusive, non-selective premium international school, where strategic leadership and innovative marketing initiatives drove extraordinary growth from 24 to 220 students in the inaugural year. 🏆 Proven track record of successful curriculum transformation, including securing Cambridge International Education IGCSE accreditation at Lyceum Alpinum Zuoz and implementing IB MYP and DP programmes at Nord Anglia Education. 🏆 Distinguished expertise in educational innovation, notably as a pioneer staff member establishing the International School of Toulouse - implementing the Northern Hemisphere's first comprehensive 1:1 laptop programmes for students aged 4-18 - and at La Cote International School NAE in Switzerland. 🏆 Recognised internationally for transformational leadership, including the 2023 Outstanding Leadership Award at the Education 2.0 Conference in Dubai and Nord Anglia Education's Outstanding Practitioner of the Year Award. 🏆 Served as an ISI schools inspector, an Associate Lecturer at Brunel University (teacher training), Vice Chair of ISDATA (independent schools DT) and member of the IBO Group 4 Curriculum Review Committee, contributing to syllabus development that shapes international education. 🏆 Combines strategic vision with practical expertise in school startup, digital transformation, and cross-cultural education delivery, demonstrated through successful leadership roles in establishing new schools, departments, and programmes across diverse international contexts. 🔶 CORE COMPETENCIES 🔸 Leadership & Teacher mentorship and coaching 🔸 New School Development & Start-up 🔸 Strategic Leadership & Vision 🔸 Curriculum Design & Implementation 🔸 Cultural Integration & Compliance 🔸 Digital Strategy & Innovation 🔸 Stakeholder Engagement 🔸 Budget Management & Resource Allocation 🔸 Marketing & Admissions Strategy 🔸 Design & Technology Education 🔸 Pastoral (boarding and day school)
Supporting international schools, new school startups and school leadership globally with design, build, HR, marketing and admissions, planning, strategy, resourcing, curriculum, mobile digital device (1:1) management and digital strategy.
Following a wonderful 18 months as Founding Principal and Secondary Principal, in a brand new build and start up premium school in Riyadh, I am seeking new opportunity.