How to build a resilient trust: Interviews with MAT leaders and industry experts

Rebecca Watkins - 29 June, 2021

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How to build a resilient trust: Interviews with MAT leaders and industry experts

Last term, we launched Part Two of our popular webinar series for MAT Leaders – “Building a Resilient Trust”. In each webinar, Arbor’s CEO, James Weatherill spoke to MAT leaders and industry experts about their strategies for running a trust successfully during Covid-19 and beyond. The series explored different facets of “resilience”, including culture, change

Last term, we launched Part Two of our popular webinar series for MAT Leaders – “Building a Resilient Trust”. In each webinar, Arbor’s CEO, James Weatherill spoke to MAT leaders and industry experts about their strategies for running a trust successfully during Covid-19 and beyond.

The series explored different facets of “resilience”, including culture, change management, school improvement, and finance, and gave MAT leaders the chance to hear from peers, share ideas and leave with practical tips to take back to their own trust. 

In case you missed the series, don’t worry! We’ve written up all the talks in an exciting new ebook. Download your copy of the free ebook for MAT leaders here.

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What’s inside?

In your ebook, you’ll find interviews with established MAT leaders (from Ormiston Academies Trust, Academy Transformation Trust, Romero Catholic Academy Trust and more) as well as industry experts, sharing all the lessons they’ve learned from the past 12 months. They also share their advice for how to rewrite your five-year trust development plans with new, more ambitious goals. 

You’ll discover how to manage change more effectively, hear ideas on what assessment can and should look like in the future, as well as the steps to making your trust more financially sustainable.

You’ll find yourself reflecting on how to prioritise the things that have the greatest impact at your trust, like how to create a culture of learning to attract and retain the best staff.

Here are the interviews you’ve got in store:

  • The road to financial sustainability as a trust, with Patrick Taggart, Director of Operations at Romero Catholic Academy and Mark Tadman, CEO of School Business Services (SBS)
  • The future of assessment: How Ormiston Academies Trust is capturing more than grades, with Nick Hudson, CEO of Ormiston Academies Trust
  • Managing change in a crisis — Why Orwell MAT moved MIS during Covid, with Anna Hennell James, CEO of Orwell MAT
  • How Academy Transformation Trust created a culture of people development, with Abby Bayford, Director of ATT Institute and Kirsty Woolls, HR Director at Academy Transformation Trust
  • Back on track: Fewer things, greater depth, with Mary Myatt, Education Adviser, Writer and Speaker

How to get your copy

Fill in your details on this page and we’ll email you a PDF copy of this new ebook, for free. We’ll also include “Building a Resilient Trust” Part One, so you can read how another group of MAT leaders navigated the first wave of the pandemic.

Future events with Arbor

Our “Building a Resilient Trust” webinar series is part of our wider MAT events programme, attended by over 600 trust leaders this year so far. We’ve got lots of other great events coming up this term with spaces still available. 

Conversations with MAT Leaders: A Roundtable on Scaling, Systems and Change Management

On 1st and 8th July, we’re holding two intimate and interactive roundtables online (limited to 12 places each) on scaling, systems and leading successful change at your trust. The discussion will be led by our co-hosts Owen McColgan, CEO of Howard Trust and Nick Doy, Head of Data Quality at Nicholas Postgate, who’ll share how they approached a recent trust-wide systems change.

Read the full agenda and book your free spot at a roundtable here.

Switching Made Simple: The benefits of the cloud

If you’re starting to think about a move to the cloud but don’t know where to start, our Switching Made Simple webinars are perfect for you. We’ll talk you through the process from start to finish so you can see what’s really involved in switching MIS and what the next steps would be for you. Perfect for your school level staff.

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Click the links to book your spot below:

5 Ways Arbor Will Transform the Way That you Work
Wednesday 30th June, 10am; Thursday 8th July, 2pm

Switching MIS Made Simple for Primary Schools 
Tuesday 29th June, 2pm; Wednesday 7th July, 10am

Switching MIS Made Simple for Secondary Schools 
Tuesday 29th June, 10am; Tuesday 6th July, 2pm

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