SPEAKERS

Tom Bennett was a teacher in the East End of London for thirteen years. Currently he is the Director and founder of researchED, a grass-roots, teacher-led project that aims to make teachers research-literate and pseudo-science proof.Since 2013 researchED has grown from a tweet to an international conference movement that so far has spanned three continents and six countries.

In 2009 he was made a Teacher Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge University. From 2008-2016 he wrote a weekly column for the TES and TES online, and is the author of four books on teacher-training, behaviour management and educational research. In 2015 he was long listed for the GEMS Global Teacher Prize, and in that year was listed as one of the Huffington Post’s ‘Top Ten Global Educational Bloggers

In March 2017, Tom published an independent review of behaviour in schools.  He recently chaired the Behaviour Management Group for the DfE and is currently their Independent Behaviour Advisor. He coaches teachers and schools internationally in all aspects of behaviour management and research integration. He currently leads the Department for Education’s Behaviour Hubs project, a £10 million program designed to reboot behaviour skills in disadvantaged schools throughout the UK.

Toms Website

Is Lisa McInnes-Smith a motivational speaker? No!
Does Lisa McInnes-Smith motivate her every audience? Decidedly, Yes!

Lisa’s background is Sport Psychology. She is an expert at Raising Performance, and this is the overarching theme of all her presentations. She is passionate and provocative and a master of shifting behaviour. After twenty-five years connecting with corporations and business people, Lisa knows what it takes for people to change—to change direction, change attitude, change behaviour and change outcomes .She is a best selling author, just the 7 books so far, plus a few compilations.
She started her speaking career by setting (and achieving!) a goal to positively influence 1 million Aussie teenagers.

Lisa knows that how people learn is a key component in the rate of their progress. Her fast-paced keynote presentations take her audience on a journey; a participative experience where they are challenged to try a different way of thinking and influencing. She inspires people to grow.

Dr Newman is the director and founder of the company who has a PhD in Organisational Neuroscience. Her work is unique in that her academic and practical background is across education, psychology and neuroscience. She is a leading Australian expert in social cognitive neuroscience, renowned for being able to draw on her leadership experience as a former high school principal and executive coach to make meaning and contextualise insights into human motivation, learning and influence. Her passion for optimum brain function is grounded in her PhD research resonating with leaders beyond schools.
Specifically, her work is focussed on identifying a leader’s attributes in order to strengthen their leadership influence, collaborating with teachers (and learners) about how the brain learns best, training leaders in bran based executive coaching and working with industry and business about how to refine decision making and build high performing teams.