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Leadership Courses
Unlock your leadership potential with Helen's online course. Develop and enhance the essential skills needed to boost your confidence, and drive positive change in your leadership. Join now and become a successful leader...
Leadership Coaching
Enhance your leadership skills with one-on-one coaching for senior leaders. Gain self-awareness, confidence, and the ability to take effective action. Invest in personal development and see the positive impact on yourself and your organisation.
Startup Advice & Support
Looking to grow your Startup business? I provide collaborative support services for business development, marketing, partnership management, leadership development, safeguarding, and more. With my guidance, you can confidently navigate the complexities of the education technology industry and reach new levels of success.
Director of Sheffield Institute of Education
Helen was my first choice when I needed an expert facilitator to help us really deeply think through scenarios that would lead to a big management of change project that had major importance for our future direction of travel. I knew from previous experience of working with her that she had the perfect skill set. To do this well.
Leadership is about constantly and consistently enabling those around us to be the best version of themselves. It’s about reducing barriers to reaching optimal performance and potential.
Helen is skilled at facilitating teams to explore leadership dilemmas, enabling clients to more effectively manage challenging issues and create the opportunities they want.
Essential Skills for Leadership Impact is an online course created for new or experienced leaders to easily access leadership skills and practices. Backed by research, these practices will impact positively on the learning and development of teams, enabling them to add more leadership value in our everyday work. As leaders grow in confidence and competence we:

I work closely with leaders to help them become more resourceful and take effective action. Through our work together, leaders gain greater confidence and competence, enabling them to build effective leadership knowledge, skills, and practice, develop strong team relationships, and improve overall wellbeing. Collaborative learning is the key to successfully managing challenging issues and relationships, and creating the opportunities and futures we desire.

CCO Zen Educate
The integrity and professionalism Helen stands for helps everyone deliver at a higher level. It has clearly helped her develop an impeccable reputation over the years, which along with her excellent knowledge of the Education system and of Safeguarding procedures, has helped us forge valuable partnerships with both schools and teachers.

As leaders progress, it can be hard to get useful and specific feedback about the impact of leadership style
and behaviours on teams and individuals.

The Real World Group's 360 leadership diagnostic focuses on 'leadership engagement' identified through grounded research. The online survey is emailed to team members who report to you, peers and those you report to enabling you identify what’s going well and where to focus your professional development. The diagnostic helps leaders:

I offer bespoke consultancy services for individuals and organisations seeking to enhance their leadership skills and improve performance. With experience in leadership roles across private and public sectors I draw on a breadth of context specific understanding and knowledge, enabling me to help you generate solutions tailored to your unique goals and challenges.
The Beyond Headship programme has been developed by Helen Woodward for headteachers and school leaders ready to explore new ideas and possibilities, seeking their path to a new future.
During the programme you’ll work through a design thinking process towards a new working life. Through the activities and 1:1 coaching the focus will be on:

In 2015, I co-founded Rebuilding Schools Nepal. Since then we've raised £30,000. Huge thanks to everyone who has supported. Their attentions are now on exploring how they can support health care provision with their partner charity Love Nepal.

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