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When you're awake at 3am, replaying that difficult board meeting for the hundredth time, you know something needs to change...
Your governors should be your school's superpower, but right now you might be:
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Wrestling with 'operational interference' when you need strategic thinking
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Sensing your board isn't working as well as it needs to
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Feeling like you're having to manage your board as well as lead your school
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Watching your staff tense up when certain governors visit
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Feeling your passion for education drain away in difficult meetings which seem more like a trial
This isn't sustainable. More importantly, it isn't necessary.
Break Through the Boardroom helps headteachers fix the relationship with their governing board when it's broken.
Our mission
Across the country, there are too many broken board relationships dragging down great schools. Our mission is to end this epidemic - and we won't stop until every headteacher has a board that adds value instead of creating stress.
We believe that many schools are standing on a mountain of untapped potential because the relationship between headteacher and board isn't working as well as it needs to.
Through our coaching, facilitation and consultancy, we provide headteachers and their boards with practical strategies, honest feedback and the safe space they need to break through what's stuck.
Break Through The Boardroom is perfect…
if your board is creating stress instead of support
You became a headteacher to lead a great school, not to manage difficult governors. Break Through The Boardroom helps you transform your governing board from a source of 3am worry into your greatest strategic asset. Build the collaborative, high-trust relationships that let you focus on what really matters.
if your relationship with your chair needs repair
When the partnership at the heart of your governance isn't working, everything else suffers. Break Through The Boardroom provides the space and tools to rebuild this crucial relationship, establishing the mutual respect and clarity that allows both of you to excel in your roles.
if you're dealing with operational interference
Say goodbye to governors who get lost in operational detail or are overstepping. Break Through The Boardroom helps you stop feeling undermined, establish clear boundaries, shift your board's focus to the right level, and create meeting dynamics where governors add genuine value instead of slowing you down.
if you've inherited a broken board and don't know where to start
With Break Through The Boardroom, you can rebuild trust and effectiveness from the ground up. Using practical strategies drawn from over 20 years in education, we'll help you spot the patterns, navigate the politics, and create the conditions for a board that actually works.
Don't just take our word for it
Every board has it's own story...
Some are struggling with roles, relationships or operational interference; others are searching for sharper focus or stronger teamwork. Sometimes it’s about rebuilding trust from the ground up. Sometimes it’s simply sharpening how you meet and make decisions.
Wherever your board is right now, there’s a way forward.
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