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The MAT Growth Conference 2024 – Growing beyond your locality
08:00 am
30 Apr, 2024
15 Hatfields Conference Centre, London SE1 8DJ
The MAT Growth Conference 2024 – Growing beyond your locality
08:00 am
30 Apr, 2024
15 Hatfields Conference Centre, London SE1 8DJ
The Mat Growth Conference 2024 – Growing beyond your locality
The conference will feature a variety of keynote sessions, workshops, roundtables, and an end of day panel discussion. Ensuring attendees come away from the conference with tangible guidance and case studies on growing your trust beyond your locality, and how to be the most attractive and high quality trust possible. Tickets are complimentary for education leaders who will have an opportunity to connect with fellow leaders and a select group of sponsors who support MATs with their growth journey. Attending the conference will be MAT leaders and education professionals, to come together and collaborate on how Trusts can grow sustainability and beyond their current locality. We will cover from the very start of the process, onboarding and attracting new schools and academies.
Key Objectives include:
- Growing your trust beyond your current locality.
- Branding your trust as a 'high quality trust'.
- Economies of scale when growing your trust.
- Onboarding and getting 'buy in' to your shared values and vision.
- People strategy when working across multiple locations.
- Please ensure you have registered your space for 2024 as we have sold out our previous editions.
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The MAT Growth Conference 2024 – Growing beyond your locality Key Subjects
- Growing your trust beyond your current locality.
- Branding your trust as a 'high quality trust'.
- Economies of scale when growing your trust.
- Onboarding and getting 'buy in' to your shared values and vision.
- People strategy when working across multiple locations.
- Please ensure you have registered your space for 2024 as we have sold out our previous editions.
- Strategies to improving your collaboration across the Trust
- Infrastructure for supporting emerging technology when growing
Who will Attend
- CEOs
- Deputy CEOs
- CFOs
- COOs
- Directors of Finance
- Directors of Governance
- Executive Headteachers
- Directors of Learning
- HR Directors
- Finance Leads
- School improvement leads
- Trustees
- Chairs
Your Pass Includes....
- Multiple live keynote presentations
- Breakfast, Lunch and Refreshments included
- Meet the supplier sessions.
- Networking opportunity
- Live Q&A sessions with all speakers on the day.
Speakers
Lisa Finnegan
Deputy CEO
Mark Sweeny
Chief Executive
Tony Lacey
Cheif Executive Officer
Sponsors & Partners
The Agenda
08:00
Registration, Networking & Breakfast
Registration, Networking & Breakfast
09:00
Chairs Welcoming Address
Chairs Welcoming Address
09:10
Keynote Session - Our Trusts journey of growth – a case study of a small MAT (Confirmed)
Steve Evans
CEO
Polaris MAT
Trust sustainability: Driving high standards and growth
- Culture- Importance and impact of system leadership.
- Consistency of standards and collaboration - Leading across settings.
- Right people, right place - Leadership structures.
- The wrestle – How to we achieve the balance between centralisation and schools autonomy..?
09:35
Keynote Session - Structuring Marketing & Communications for MAT Growth (Confirmed)
Mark Davis
Sales Director
Blue Apple Education
Keynote Session - Blue Apple Education
Mark Davis, leading school marketing expert and a member of the MATA Advisory Board will be talking through the key steps needed to ensure that your MAT has a strategic marketing function that can drive and support your growth. He will also explain what to consider and how to overcome the challenges of developing Marketing and Communications as a Centralised service.
10:00
Keynote Session - Growing a trust from 7-23 schools in 5 years (Confirmed)
Matthew Crawford
CEO
Embark Federation
The session will look at developments through each stage of growth, lessons learned and how the strategy and central structure has evolved. It will also touch on the growth principles behind everything and reasons why schools have been attracted to the trust.
10:25
Keynote Session - Preparing for your agile and effective digital transformation – where to begin? (Confirmed)
Mark Sweeny
Chief Executive
de Novo Solutions
Keynote Session - de Novo Solutions
Join us for this session on how to navigate the digital transformation journey in actionable steps. Our focus will be on the first step: preparing for the cloud using the techniques we’ve successfully employed with our MAT clients to support them on their digital journey.
10:50
Morning Break, Networking and Refreshments
Morning Break, Networking and Refreshments
11:30
Keynote Session - Growing at Pace: Getting it Right (Confirmed)
Lisa Finnegan
Deputy CEO
Oak Trees Multi Academy Trust
Tony Lacey
Cheif Executive Officer
Oak Trees Multi Academy Trust
Oak Trees Multi Academy Trust has grown rapidly over the past 18 months, more than doubling the size of the Trust as well as moving from a Primary to a mixed Primary/Secondary MAT. Find out how the Trust strategically managed the process to enable all schools to thrive and ensure that the Trust continues to perform at all levels.
11:55
Keynote Session - The power of empathetic leadership in reducing stress, improving wellbeing and ensuring staff are able to be the best version of themselves (Confirmed)
Andy Mellor
National Wellbeing Director
Schools Advisory Service
Keynote Session - Schools Advisory Service
This short keynote will unpick the science behind empathy and empathetic leadership as a tool to ensure staff feel valued and results in them being the best version of themselves which in turn has a positive impact on fulfilment and can make them up to 30% more effective.
Based on Simon Sinek and Brene Brown’s work, this keynote will help to explain what happens biologically when leaders display empathetic leadership traits, explains the difference between empathy and sympathy and how empathy drives motivation, culture and ethos, making your trust an employer of choice.
12:20
Keynote Session - Strategic planning against the 5 high quality trust descriptors (Confirmed)
Carla Whelan
CEO
Empower MAT
As a CEO, Carla support the schools at EMPOWER MAT in their pursuit of excellence.
With a number of years experience in schools both primary and secondary, Ofsted recognition for outstanding leadership and described as ‘ inspirational’ she leads change and enjoys being a part of making a difference to the young people in Shropshire.
Using her understanding as a Leadership coach, a mindfulness practitioner, a qualified mental health practitioner & as an NLP trained practitioner she is committed to help develop the understanding around mental health, self awareness and support building healthy, resilient mindsets.
A compassionate, empathetic leader who wants the greatest outcomes for all.
12:45
Lunch & Networking Break & EPM Private Roundtable
Roundtable Hosted by EPM:
MAT Growth – Laying the foundations for sustainable growth
Strategically planning for growth is a top priority for many small to medium trusts across the country. Whether it’s to ensure a wider educational offer, a route to greater financial resilience, developing a stronger workforce, or to meet a civic duty by sponsoring one or more academies, everyone is talking about growth of MATs.
In this roundtable discussion we will explore some of the essential aspects MAT leaders need to have in place when considering if they are ready to grow:
- The central team capacity required for a growing MAT
- How to ensure robust oversight, challenge and support
- Unlocking the best from the workforce and maintaining stability.
If you are interested in joining this roundtable, please email matt.mcdermott@convenzis.co.uk
13:30
Keynote Session - SAAF Education (Confirmed)
Keynote Session - SAAF Education
13:55
Keynote Session - Planning for the (Growth) Plan. One Small Trust’s thoughts on getting ready to expand; developing a sustainable family of schools (Confirmed)
Mark Pollard
CEO
Four Stones MAT
Synopsis TBC
14:20
Panel Discussion
Panel Discussion
15:00
Post-Conference Drinks Reception
Post-Conference Drinks Reception
15:30
End of Day
End of Day
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