Successful Succession

The Girls’ Day School Trust

The Background: The GDST owns and runs 29 schools located throughout England and Wales, with a concentration of 12 in London. This makes them the largest group of independent schools in the UK, educating 20,000 students each year.

The Challenge: GDST needed help to carry out a review of their current headteacher job specifications as part of the organisation’s succession strategy. Their goal was to create a modernised, competitive framework for future leadership development.

The Solution: Navigate brought in associate consultant (and former NCSL Director), Jane Creasy to work on the project.  After a focus group with current serving heads, we realigned the current leadership framework to fit the Trust’s goal of modernising leadership development.

The Result: Delivering a successful report and a new job description to the Trust ‘s meeting of current headteachers and governing Council Members.