Session 1
Thursday 2 July · 11:45-12:30
How to lead change and bring everyone with you
Most change initiatives don't fail because of poor planning. They fail because leaders skip the one step that makes everything else possible, and don't realise it until it is too late. That step is connection: something concrete and deliberate that happens before any announcement is made, before any strategy is written, before anyone is asked to do anything differently.
A practical session on what genuine connection requires, why it is so consistently skipped, and the questions that help you honestly read your own community before you try to change it.
Live podcast
Thursday 2 July · 16:00-16:45
The Education Leaders podcast, live
A live recording of the Education Leaders podcast in front of a festival audience, with a special guest joining Shane on stage. A big name in education, to be announced soon. Expect a candid, unscripted conversation about leading change in schools.
With a special guest to be announced.
Session 2
Friday 3 July · 10:30-11:15
Yes, your teachers are exhausted. No, it's not their fault.
Teacher exhaustion has causes, and one we talk about least is the relentless, often poorly managed cycle of change schools have been running for decades. When change is done to people rather than with them, and initiatives arrive without context and vanish without resolution, it leaves a residue that a wellbeing policy won't fix.
78%
of teachers feel exhausted by competing change demands
<30%
of school change initiatives actually succeed
Panel: Shane Leaning, Tracy Goodyear, Narinder Gill, Kathryn Morgan and Kathryn Taylor.
