In April 2023 Forum Strategy and The Brown Collective published a thinkpiece entitled ‘What does system leadership look like in 2023 and beyond?’. This provided a helpful source of reflection and provocation. It was a timely reminder that system leadership has much more untapped potential to help the education system develop and improve further, including opportunities to identify and address cross-community, cross-sector challenges and the potential to collaborate with other influencers.
This second paper builds on the first by setting out the key thinking from Forum Strategy’s System Leadership Professional Learning Communities (PLCs) Programme, which involved ten Chief Executives of academy trusts working across two groups over the Summer of 2023.