How as a COO do you look ahead to the challenges and opportunities on the horizon for 2023 and beyond? As you grow and develop as a trust, how will you continue to deliver on key strategic areas at greater scale? Join our next national COO network meeting to consider and discuss these questions and more.

We are delighted that the next COO network will be led by our Guest National COO Network Chair, Charlie Tebbutt. As a founding Trustee, COO and CFO, Charlie of the highly regarded Beckfoot Trust, Charlie oversaw all academy conversions and the transformation of all aspects of the Trust’s commercial development and so brings vast and relevant experience to our national COO network.

At our next network meeting we will be considering the concept of thriving trusts and considering what the role of the COO is, in enabling and supporting the organisation to thrive and develop. We will hear from our partners at The Key to consider some important headline findings from our recent joint follow up survey, exploring the impact of the cost of living crisis and how trusts are navigating these ever challenging times. We will also be joined by Dr Sharon Wright, consultant at The Learning Crowd, and renowned speaker on the latest trends in learning environments throughout the UK and internationally. Sharon will explore what effective, sustainable estates strategies should include, ensuring young people, communities and staff are at the very heart. Graham Shaw, consultant at Wrigley Solicitors, will then provide an update, outlining some of the key headlines from the recent academies regulatory and commissioning review, unpicking some of the key areas of interest for COOs. We will then finish on an input focused on how trusts can better use and harness the potential of digital and technology, touching on how AI may, in future, become a part of that strategy. Graham Feek, Deputy CEO for Greenwood Academies joins us to provide his experience and perspective.

The session will provide up to the minute strategic insight; reflection; discussion and the opportunity to connect with peer COOs – all guided by leading thinkers. In this session we want to give you the space and support to reflect on how you approach these ever-testing times.

Agenda
9.30am – Welcome from our national #TrustLeaders COO network Guest Chair – Charlie Tebbutt, Forum Strategy Associate
9.35am – Strategic update – key themes for trusts in 2023 – Alice Gregson, Executive Director, Forum Strategy
9.50am – How have trusts been navigating the cost of living crisis – The Key
10.10am – What does it mean to be a trust at the heart of your community? What is the COO’s role in this?
10.30am – Developing fit for purpose, sustainable estates; what does a good estates strategy look like? – Dr Sharon Wright, The Learning Crowd
11.00am – Headlines from the recent academies regulatory and commissioning review including the potential implications for the academies handbook – Graham Shaw, Consultant, Wrigleys Solictors
11.20am – Using technology to drive efficiency and effectiveness across the trust- Graham Feek, Deputy CEO, Greenwood Academies Trust, Deputy CEO
11.50am – Final comments and close

Please note The Key and Wrigleys are part of a paid for partnership with Forum Strategy. When selecting our partners we do so with careful reference to their expertise and their ethos and values.

To book onto the COO network session, please book using the following form. Please note that you must be a current individual member of the Forum Strategy national COO network to attend:

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