Find your Leadership Coach

Why coaching?

Coaching is increasingly recognised as an empowering and impactful process, providing you and members of your team with support and challenge at different stages of your school leadership journey.

A coach acts as a trusted partner, working with you individually within a safe and confidential space, identifying and exploring your goals and desired outcomes, including any barriers and challenges that may be getting in the way.

Sir John Whitmore, pioneer of coaching and leadership development, described coaching as "unlocking a person’s potential to maximise their own performance. It is helping them learn rather than teaching them".

With this in mind, PaJeS is happy to signpost you to a range of coaching options depending on your role, budget and preferred approach. These are not specific recommendations and ensuing coaching relationships will be a private and confidential arrangement between coach and client.

Funded coaching options available for PaJes subscribing schools. Please contact Rachel.Barbanel@pajes.org.uk for more information.

Coaching with Samantha

Samantha is an accredited senior coaching practitioner with many years of leadership experience across the education sector. She brings a deep understanding of the challenges faced by Headteachers, senior school leaders, and middle managers and has experience coaching, mentoring, and supporting individuals and groups at different levels within schools.

She specialises in partnering school leaders to navigate the unique demands of educational leadership. Whether you’re managing school-wide change, balancing competing priorities, handling complex stakeholder relationships, supporting a diverse staff team, overcoming imposter syndrome, or simply seeking a confidential, non-judgemental talk partner, Samantha offers bespoke coaching to individuals and groups, designed for your needs and circumstances.

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Coaching with Stephanie

Stephanie Segal is an organisational consultant, supervisor, coach and group facilitator. She is a Leadership and Management Adviser to Barnet Schools for Partnership Improvement and offers primary and secondary schools leadership development, coaching, supervision and reflective leadership coaching for SLTs.

Stephanie has worked extensively in Education, Social Care, the NHS, Children, Young People and Families, Learning Disabilities, Domestic Violence, Safeguarding and Mental Health. She is a visiting lecturer and tutor at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust. ​Her MA dissertation focused on role consultation with a Headteacher and Deputy of a school experiencing difficulties, evaluating roles, interpersonal skills and staff group dynamics.

Stephanie is a qualified counsellor, has an MA in Consultation and the Organisation, a Psychoanalytic Approach and studied the Systemic Approach to Organisations, Children and Families (Tavistock Clinic/UEL). She is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, Member of the International Society for the Psychoanalytic Study of Organisations (ISPSO), ASIIP, Association for Coaching, British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP), BACP Registrant, BACP Coaching, EMCC UK and EMCC EIA Professional Designation at Senior Practitioner level.

 

 

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My Coaching Place  

To make coaching accessible for anyone who would benefit, PaJeS is delighted to have partnered with My Coaching Place to offer Headteachers, and emerging middle and senior leaders, a choice of coaching packages at no cost to you or your school. 

Find out more about My Coaching Place and how you can benefit from this amazing offer.

If you are interested in being matched up with a coach, please contact Rachel who will pass on your details and your desired coaching package. 

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Other providers

Ambition Institute Early Headship Coaching Offer  

Are you a Headteacher in your first five years of headship? If so, Ambition Institute’s targeted support package may be what you’re looking for.

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