Dame Pat Collarbone
Independent Consultant, UK
Professor Dame Pat Collarbone is an Education Advisor to a number of public bodies in England including the National College for School Leadership (NCSL), the Training and Development Agency for Schools (TDA) and the Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF). She is an acknowledged expert on school leadership and remodelling. She was formerly a Director of NCSL and the Executive Director of the National Remodelling Team and the TDA. For 28 years she taught in inner London and was a very successful headteacher of a secondary school in Hackney. In 1996 she founded the London Leadership Centre at the Institute of Education, University of London. She now runs Education Change Associates Ltd and is a Director of Creating Tomorrow Ltd. In 2008 she has published two books, one co-authored with Professor John West-Burnham on systems leadership and one on remodelling. She is a visiting professor at Canterbury Christ Church University. She was made a Dame in 1997 for services to education.