Sarah is an experienced school and system leader with teaching and leadership expertise spanning across schools, trusts and initial teacher training. As Head of System Leadership at Inspiring Futures through Learning (IFtL), she leads the Learning and Development (CPD) offer, designing system leadership approaches to build sustainable capacity and expertise across the system. Sarah champions evidence-led, research based, professional learning settings and her leadership approach is to create opportunities for colleagues to collaborate with and inspire each other to think creatively. Vitally, Sarah’s work ensures that learning and learners at the heart of solutions and provision.

Sarah is highly respected by school leaders and teachers across the sector, for the thoughtful way in which she combines her extensive educational expertise with positive challenge and a nurturing style. The impact of the work she leads can be seen in the transformational learning that takes place at scale across IFtL’s twenty schools, as well as across countless cohorts of teacher training and development. Sarah’s work leading Digital Learning at IFtL has taken a pathfinding approach, placing the interaction of pedagogy and digital at its heart and vitally, pivoting around the needs and aspirations of children and young people.