The MAT People Strategy Conference 2025

Events For Education

08:00 am
02 Apr, 2025
Leonardo Hotel, Milton Keynes, Midsummer Boulevard Milton Keynes, MK9 2HP

The MAT People Strategy Conference 2025

Events For Education

08:00 am
02 Apr, 2025
Leonardo Hotel, Milton Keynes, Midsummer Boulevard Milton Keynes, MK9 2HP

The specific people related event for HR, People and C-Level leadership teams across Schools and MATs.

After our sold out event back in November 2024 we are excited to be returning to Milton Keynes once again. This is the MAT people related specific daytime conference, the sessions throughout the day will combine keynotes and workshops from a mix of Trust leaders and industry experts, everything relating back to People Strategy in schools and trusts.

The conference will be covering:

  • Building your MAT people strategy and document
  • Creating a family of schools culture in larger organisations
  • Balancing demands with pragmatic expectations
  • Aligning your HR policies with your MATs overall strategies and visions
  • Encorporating AI into a people centric role
  • Exploring flexible working initiatives
  • Succession planning for future leaders
  • Positioning your trust as a desirable place of work, improving retention and fostering loyalty.
  • Innovations that can be made in attracting new talent and recruitment.

This is a free to attend event, with the tickets including breakfast, refreshments and lunch.

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The programme

08:00

Registration, Breakfast & Networking, Chairs Welcoming Address

Registration, Breakfast & Networking, Chairs Welcoming Address

08:55

Improving the core issues - Recruitment and Retention

This panel discussion will bring together a number of Trusts, varying in size and location, to discuss how we improve the core issues of recruitment and retention that run throughout the challenges education leaders are facing.

09:20

Keynote Session

Keynote Session

09:45

Developing and improving your MAT people strategy

This scene setting keynote session will address the overall topic running throughout the day, how to develop and continuously improve your people strategy as a Trust.

10:10

Keynote Session

This session is reserved for Wolferstans LLP.

10:35

How do you balance demands with pragmatic expectations?

This keynote session will be delivered by a MAT, addressing how you can balance demands as an employer with what is physically and financially possible. This session will provide examples of 'demands' that come about, and how to provide pragmatic solutions to these.

11:00

Keynote Session

This session is reserved for Leadership Edge.

11:25

Morning Networking, Refreshments & Breakout

Morning Networking, Refreshments & Breakout

12:10

Flexible working initiatives - challenges and oppurtunities

This session will be delivered by a Trust who has incorporated a flexible working initiative throughout their Trust, the speaker will address the considerations prior to been launched, as well as the challenges and outcomes that have developed during it's roll out phase.

12:35

Incorporating AI into a people centric role

This session will address AI and how it can support in your day to day role - providing examples and tools that can be used.

13:00

Retaining your 'family' culture through periods of change and growth

This session will address to challenges and scenarios encountered through periods of change and growth as a Trust. Using examples, a CEO of a Trust will discuss how they have overcome these and the processes they incorporated during this time.

13:25

Lunch Networking, Refreshments & Breakout

Lunch Networking, Refreshments & Breakout

14:10

Workshop Session

Workshop Session

14:45

Workshop Session

Workshop Session

15:20

Chairs Closing Address

Chairs Closing Address

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Your Pass Includes....

  • Multiple live keynote presentations
  • Live examples of both Education and Commercial best practice
  • Breakfast, Lunch and Refreshments included 
  • Meet the supplier sessions.
  • Networking opportunity
  • Live Q&A sessions with all speakers on the day
  • Drinks receptions (subject to event)
  • Prize draws

Tickets for Education Leaders

We have an invite only option for Education Leaders for our conference, to see if you qualify for a complimentary place please click the button below.

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Price
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Education Leader
£0.00 excl VAT
Limited places
0
Private Sector (LIMITED)
£407.99 excl VAT
Limited places
0

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