Toyin has a background in Biomedical Science and Neuroscience (MSc, Kings College London) and is a mother of two primary school-aged girls. Driven by a keen interest in the education of girls, she has also specialised in Educational Studies and Educational Assessments (University of Cambridge).

She has further expanded her expertise to incorporate IT consultancy where she has years of extensive experience in leading strategic planning and delivering numerous agile technology and digital programs across Financial Services, Oil & Gas, Insurance, Public Services, and Telecoms. 

She is an advocate for teaching girls to embrace change as a vehicle for improvement, as they move through the different stages of their personal and professional lives.

Zarah is a Digital Projects Manager with a focus on helping organizations align their strengths in people, process, and technology to meet their business goals. She has over 15 years experience in IT project management, workforce planning, and optimization, as well as data analytics across various industries, including financial services, Oil & Gas, retail, and the Higher Education Sector. Zarah holds a PhD specialising in Digital Capabilities and Transformations from the University of Hertfordshire, an MSc in Advanced Software Engineering from King’s College London, and a BSc in Computer Science, also from the University of Hertfordshire. She also works as a visiting lecturer at the University of Hertfordshire, maintaining her academic involvement.

Zarah is passionate about learning, emphasizing the importance of perceiving learning as a life-long skill. She values both subject-specific knowledge and interpersonal skills, and actively advocates for inspiring more young women to pursue STEM subjects at the university level.

Ashley is deputy dean of Brunel University London's College of Business, Arts and Social Sciences and Professor of Organisational Transformation at Brunel Business School. His research and consultancy expertise covers the development and implementation of strategy. He has won a number of grants over the years, most recently with UKIERI, to create a curriculum for employability skills for mainstream and special needs students.  He has published three books and over one hundred papers.  

Ashley has worked with many organisations advising them on a variety of business process, digital transformation, strategic, knowledge management and information systems issues. He is on the council of the British Academy of Management and founder of the organisational transformation, change and development special interest group within the Academy. He serves on the governing board of a school.  

Prior to joining Brunel Business School, Ashley was with the Cranfield School of Management for 17 years in a variety of senior academic roles. Ashley attained his doctorate, which focused upon the implementation of radical process oriented change, from Cranfield University. Ashley completed a MBA at Strathclyde Business School. He elected to specialise in corporate strategy and finance. Prior to his MBA, he completed the Chartered Institute of Bankers examinations. Before joining academia, Ashley spent ten years in the banking industry.

Stuart is a senior leader with a career spanning 25 years in the highly regulated sector of renewable energy.

He has extensive experience of driving transformative change in a corporate setting and via government, regulator and industry-led advisory groups and panels.

Stuart graduated from the University of Salford with BSc (Hons) in Computer Science.

Julian studied Law at Exeter University and qualified as a barrister in 1996. After a year working as a Crown Prosecutor, he completed a PGCE at Anglia Ruskin University and began teaching. He has taught in 5 state schools in 3 local authorities. At Chelmsford County High School for Girls he was Deputy Headteacher when the school was graded Outstanding by Ofsted and gained the highest GCSE results in England in the January league tables. He was Headteacher and then Executive Headteacher for 12 years at Frances Bardsley Academy for Girls, a Good school with Outstanding features.

Julian is the founding CEO of LIFE Education. He holds a 1st Class honours degree in English, a Masters in Educational Leadership, an MBA and the NPQH. He is currently a doctoral student. Julian is a Past President of the Association of State Girls Schools, has chaired the cross phase Havering Education Strategic Partnership, Chairs the Havering Festival of Education and writes for the National Education Trust. In July 2021 he joined the Board of the National Coalition of Girls School in the United States which subsequently merged with the ASGS and then their counterpart in Australia to form the International Coalition of Girls Schools with over 550 member schools worldwide. Julian facilitates NPQEL conferences and clinics for Ambition Institute and leads ASCL Executive Leader training. He is Chair of the Epping Forest Trussell Foodbank Board.

Dr Karen Edge has worked as an educator, researcher and advisor globally for over 25 years. Karen’s work demonstrates an unwavering commitment to promoting equality and justice and drawing on local and global evidence to drive change. Karen is currently an academic at UCL Institute of Education having previously served as UCL’s Pro-Vice Provost (International) from 2016-19.  In 2022, Karen became a Salzburg Global Fellow.

Karen is in the final stages of preparing two books on Generation X leaders (Routledge) and City-based education policy contexts and the influence on school leaders (Bloomsbury). Karen’s current advisory work includes International School Leadership Principals (Ontario, Canada); HeadsUP for Headteachers (England); Dignitas Project (Kenya); and, Digital Promise Global City Education Network (Global). She is Past Editor-in-Chief of Educational Assessment, Evaluation and Accountability (EAEA) and a current Editorial Board Member for EAEA, Educational Administration Quarterly, Journal of Educational Administration, and Leadership and Policy in Schools.

Debbie has been on the governing body since 2006, first as a parent governor and now co-opted and has moved from being a trustee to a member of the governing board. Her two daughters both attended the school. She currently works as a gardener and designer but has a background in computing and a degree in modern languages.

As well as having been chair of a local drama group she is involved in many other ways, including acting and directing. Debbie has served as chair of the welfare committee and sat on both the finance & premises, and achievement & behaviour committees.

Grant is a technology consultant with over 20 years experience, previously as a software engineer and currently as a Principal Technologist with a company specialising in public sector organisations.

Grant graduated from The University of Auckland, New Zealand, with a MPhil (hons) in History. He is an advocate of life-long learning and supporter of people entering software careers later through code academies and apprenticeships.

Violet began her career in education as a mathematics teacher in 2001 after two previously successful careers in accountancy and psychotherapy. She has achieved the National Professional Qualification for Headteachers. Violet was accredited as an Advanced Skills Teacher in Mathematics in 2004 and is an LLC Coach and an accredited Specialist Leader of Education. In 2006 Violet set up a new sixth form, judged outstanding from its first inspection. Alongside her role as head of sixth form and assistant headteacher at an outstanding school in Harrow, Violet worked with the National College as part of the London Leadership Strategy to develop teaching across Greater London and to write and deliver a programme to build capacity in sixth forms in Greater London and Greater Manchester schools and sixth form colleges. Violet was seconded for a period in 2011, as a deputy headteacher, to an outstanding school in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, to support the development of the leadership team and improvements in mathematics. In 2012, as a specialist leader of education and sole deputy headteacher, Violet joined a school in Ealing which had been placed in special measures three months earlier. She supported the headteacher to take the school out of special measures in a year. Violet’s areas of responsibility included the curriculum, quality assurance of learning and teaching and data triangulation, professional development of staff, staffing and performance management.  Violet was key to the improvement of the school which was judged to be good, two years later, in the summer of 2015.