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Share Wednesday 25th June 10am – 2pm
This half-day webinar brings together national data and practical solutions to help multi-academy trusts understand, support, and retain their people.
From spotting early signs of unhappy staff to building emotionally intelligent cultures, this event is designed to help you tackle the workforce challenge with clarity, compassion, and strategic focus.
Why you should attend this webinar?
Your people are your biggest asset – and your greatest risk.
If you’re navigating high turnover, rising absence, or pressure to do more with less, you’re not alone. But there are ways forward. This webinar is your chance to pause, refocus, and hear what’s working across the sector.
Through expert speakers, real data, and actionable insights, you’ll gain the perspective and tools needed to strengthen your workforce, reduce risk, and make confident people decisions that benefit your trust long-term.
What you’ll learn:
- What the latest national data reveals about who’s leaving, why, and when
- How emotionally intelligent leadership supports long-term staff engagement
- Where flexible working fits into sustainable workforce planning
- What systems can streamline HR operations and free up time for people-first work
- Practical, realistic steps you can take now to retain and support your team
Session 1: Staff at Risk: Why They Leave and How to Keep Them
Led by Edurio.
Drawing from Edurio’s national dataset, this session explores staff retention trends, the groups most at risk of leaving, and how trusts are using survey feedback to intervene early.
Ground your decisions in evidence and urgency.
Session 2: Strategic Staff Wellbeing
Led by Julie Liddell, Still Human, The Edwin Group.
Explore why staff wellbeing must be a trust-wide priority. This session unpacks what wellbeing truly means, who owns it, and how HR leaders can drive cultural change to support a healthier, more stable and satisfied workforce.
Session 3: Happy Staff, Happy Pupils
Speaker TBC.
When staff thrive, pupils do too. This session explores the ripple effect of positive staff experience on pupil outcomes – and how HR leaders can influence both.
Iris will share insight on the tools, policies, and culture shifts that lead to happier, more engaged staff and stronger school communities.
Session 4: Flexible Working and Strategic Workforce Design
Led by John Faulconbridge and Michelle Gabriel, Capita Entrust.
What does a future-fit trust workforce look like? This session explores how strategic planning and flexible working can unlock retention, reduce costs, and improve recruitment. With insights from trust partners across the sector, John and Michelle will share how to build a workforce model that works for your schools and your people.
Speakers:
John Faulconbridge
Executive sponsor for the Capita/Entrust DfE National Flexible Working Project
As the executive sponsor for the Capita/Entrust DfE National Flexible Working Project, John provides strategic oversight, ensuring that flexible working practices become an integral part of our educational landscape. He also leads the Early Careers Framework Programme for Capita/UoB. John’s 35 years in the field, including 23 years as a senior leader in state secondary schools, have equipped him with invaluable insights into the intricacies of school management.
Michelle Gabriel
Head of HR and Sponsor for the Flexible Working Ambassador Programme
Michelle is a chartered fellow of the CIPD and an experienced senior leader with over 16 years of HR expertise in the schools sector. She’s worked in both outsourced HR services for Schools and Trusts and in-house as Director of HR for a Midlands-based Multi-Academy Trust. She’s also an accredited workplace mediator, Safer Recruitment Trainer and workplace coach.
Julie Liddell
Managing Director, Still Human
Julie has over 28 years’ experience of teaching Psychology, along with an enthusiasm for sharing simple, effective ways to improve wellbeing.
Having worked in the post-16 sector both as a teacher and a Senior Manager, she has a
genuine understanding of the current challenges facing education. Julie founded Still Human as she believes that when staff health and wellbeing are nurtured, it positively impacts both
the individual and the whole school community.
Iona Jackson
Managing Director at Edurio
Iona leads on turning Edurio’s national datasets into useful and impactful insights for trust and school leaders. Since joining Edurio in 2021, Iona has worked on national reports focused on topics such as equality, diversity and inclusion and staff retention.
Imanta Nigals
Head of Customer Experience at Edurio
Imanta works with the Insights and Content team to build meaningful resources for customers around effective stakeholder feedback. She has developed and implemented guidebooks, seminars and other resources tailored to the needs of customers looking to get the most out of their survey data.
Ben Haslewood
Insights Specialist at Edurio
Ben’s research provides national-level insights on key topics such as high-quality education, staff retention, pupil behaviour, and trust culture. Collaborating with industry experts, his work helps guide policy and practice across the sector. Ben’s past experience in Local Councils and Private Education Settings deepens his understanding of current and future challenges.