BSA Virtual Day Seminar: Shaping Strategy, 01.09.21

Name: BSA Virtual Day Seminar: Shaping Strategy, 01.09.21
Start: 2021-01-09T10:30:00+00:00
End: 2021-01-09T15:30:00+00:00
Location: Virtual – Zoom

9 January 2021 @ 10:30 am - 3:30 pm

1 September @ 10.30am – 3.30pm

Course Outline

This virtual seminar is for any BSA, SACPA or BAISIS member with responsibility for developing strategy in their organisation, or part of it. BSA Group CEO Robin Fletcher and former P&O/Cunard Chief Financial Officer Ed Jones explain the standard ‘tool box’ of strategic planning tools, how they work and why they help and use case studies from a range of sectors to look at how strategic planning works in the real world.

Training topics will include:

What is strategy?
Why it matters
Tools and techniques

Case studies from other organisations and sectors
Case studies from education
Building your own strategy tool kit.

Learning outcomes:

Greater understanding of how to create a strategy for your organisation
Greater awareness of the range of tools and methodology to help you do that
An understanding of how other organisations approach strategy, and how this can apply to schools.

Audience:

Head/Principal, Deputy Head/Vice-Principal, Head of Boarding, Governors

Cost:

Full Member: £135
Affiliated Member: £205
Non-Member: £270

Speaker: Robin Fletcher, Chief Executive, BSA and BSA Group

Robin Fletcher, MBA, MPhil is CEO of BSA Group, comprising the BSA (Boarding Schools’ Association), SACPA (Safeguarding and Child Protection Association) and BAISIS (British Association of Independent Schools with International Students). Robin was a journalist, editor and communications director before joining BSA in 2014.

As BSA CEO, Robin is a member of the Department for Education’s Systems Partnership Oversight Board. Outside BSA, he is an elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, an Honorary Fellow of Cardiff Metropolitan University, a Governor of Rugby School, President of the Rugbeian Society and a non-executive director of the national trade body Make UK. He lives in Bath in southwest England and has two daughters, two stepdaughters, and two stepsons.

Speaker: Ed Jones, Non-Executive Director, Business Advisor and former CFO for Carnival

Ed Jones works with management teams to shape their business strategy and plans, reviewing performance and managing key risks. Previously, Ed was CFO at Carnival UK and was a key member of the team who quadrupled the size of the P&O and Cunard Line businesses with a turnover reaching £1.5bn.