Kathryn joined GGI in January 2025 as a consultant following a 25-year career in education, including as head of an all-through independent school. In this role, she led significant change through unexpected challenges, such as the COVID-19 pandemic. Kathryn enjoys navigating complexity, finding creative solutions and making improvement through innovation, creative thinking and collaboration.
During her career, Kathryn has had insight into and experience of risk-management, policy development and governance mechanisms. She has shaped strategic direction and implemented policy and operational changes aimed at improving systems, culture and standards.
Kathryn values the development of effective partnerships such as stakeholder engagement. She is values-led in her leadership, preferring a distributed approach to ensure collective agreement. She is a certified workplace mediator and holds accreditation as an investigator. In her work, she delivers governance workshops, audits and quality assurance. She is working towards her L7 Executive Coaching qualification.
Kathryn is a fellow of the Chartered College of Teachers, chair of governors of a primary school that serves a diverse community, serves on the board of a leading independent performing arts school, and is non-executive director of an alternative provision for neurodiverse children. She holds membership of education policy groups and think tanks.
Before starting her career, Kathryn taught overseas and volunteered for an NGO working to rebuild communities devastated by natural disasters. She holds an MEd in Educational Leadership and School Improvement from the University of Cambridge.
Originally from the Midlands where her parents remain, Kathryn lives with her two daughters, husband and spaniel just outside London. Together they enjoy travel, the performing arts, muddy walks and a good boxset by the fire.
