1 to 1 Depth Coaching for MAT CEOs
We provide coaching and leadership development services to help MATs create environments where all adults and young people can thrive.
Time to think clearly
September Special Coaching Offer
Step back from the immediacy of leadership and make space to think strategically about the year ahead.
Book 1:1 coaching and receive a FREE 1:1 strategic planning session to clarify your priorities and focus on what will make the greatest difference.
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MATs face a number of issues as they seek to raise and maintain standards across their family of schools.
Many of these challenges centre around relationships, people management issues and harnessing qualities and skills within teams for the collective good.
When periods of transition accompany the implementation of new structures, systems, roles, policies and practices, feelings of anxiety, doubt and worry can dominate. If not managed well, these feelings can quickly spread and undermine a unified approach to MAT-wide school improvement.
As the CEO or a Senior Leader in a MAT, you may have experienced how fear-based, psychological responses to change can impact the improvement process.
The Challenges of Growing a Successful MAT
- Low levels of trust: Individuals/teams unwilling to open up and share ideas or resources with one another
- Poor levels of communication: Strained communication, that has inhibited the sharing and development of good practice across the MAT
- Conflict in leadership styles: Senior leaders with leadership styles that are out of alignment with others within the MAT
- Decreased levels of emotional resilience: Individuals who have experienced difficulty developing their emotional resources and working through the inevitable challenges of daily school life
- Role adjustment fatigue: Individuals who have struggled to cope with the emotional and psychological changes required to cope with their new and developing roles within a MAT structure
- High attrition rates: Problems recruiting and retaining staff, particularly if schools in the MAT have been rated as ‘inadequate’ by OFSTED
MAT Case study for Essential Coaching Skills Programme
Read how the SEAX Trust benefitted from partnering with Integrity Coaching to deliver its Essential Coaching Skills Programme to staff in a range of roles across the Trust.
Our Solution
At Integrity Coaching, we provide a safe, supportive space for school leaders to reflect, gain clarity, and reconnect with their purpose. Our Depth Coaching approach is specifically designed to help leaders navigate this critical phase of their lives, guiding them toward greater self-awareness, resilience, and long-term fulfillment.
Through our coaching, leaders regain their sense of purpose and confidence.
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Explore how coaching can support your Multi-Academy Trust
If you’d like to explore how we can work together to help your academy to develop outstanding cultures in which leaders, staff and pupils alike can grow and flourish, we’d be delighted to speak to you.
What are the benefits of Coaching for MATs?
Our coaching work has been shown to support MATs in the following four areas:
Connection
Maintain a deeper connection with their core values, their passion and purpose.
Resilience
Demonstrate greater levels of self-awareness and emotional resilience.
Empowerment
Feel empowered and supported to achieve outstanding results for their schools.
Self-awareness
Understand how to support their own wellbeing and that of members of their school community.
A Research Report into the Impact of Leadership Coaching in Schools
Learn how coaching supports sustainable and effective leadership in schools in the Leeds Beckett University Research report into the impact of our coaching services.
Testimonials
Integrity Coaching provides the type of services that every School Leader needs; independence, compassionate and understanding: expert coaches who listen to you and work with you in a humane way, to bring to life the particular vision that you have for the staff and pupils in your school.
Michael Rosen
School Governor, Author & former Children’s Poet Laureate
" Coaching sessions have enabled me to focus on personal goals within the workplace and have made me allocate time within my working week to focus on important issues. My coach prompted me to consider dealing with a difficult professional relationship within work and to find a solution to improving this from my perspective. Mark has been an excellent coach, helping me to develop a succession plan in readiness for my retirement and coaching me through a solution-focused approach to managing a difficult work-based relationship. This has been the best coaching experience I have had."
"My coaching journey with Viv was a truly foundational part of my development as a school leader. The coaching sessions were brilliant, they offered me the space, time, and challenge I needed to clarify my leadership vision and translate it into meaningful action. Viv’s expertise, compassion, and skill created an environment where I could reflect deeply, grow in confidence, and strengthen my ability to lead with integrity. The impact of that work has stayed with me throughout my leadership journey, and I remain incredibly grateful for the role Viv played in helping me become the leader I am today."
"What I’ve learnt from being a Headteacher is that the job may not get any easier but what changes is your ability to deal with it and that’s how Integrity Coaching has helped me. The coaching relationship has supported me to better manage and overcome the stresses of School Leadership, particularly when other people are involved. It has helped me become a nicer person to be around in school and my staff have really noticed the difference. I’m also just so much more efficient after coaching, you can just get so much more out of me now. I think that’s played a significant role in contributing to my school’s performance."
“Viv’s vast experience enabled her to analyse our discussions an get to the nuts and bolts of the situation very quickly. I can safely say that Integrity Coaching will meet your specific needs and provide you with the tools to improve, even if practice is already deemed outstanding.”
“My time with Integrity Coaching gave me the environment and space to examine my motivations and my thoughts. They helped me reflect on why I do the things that I do, in the way that I do them. In doing so, they were able to bring me back to what motivated me to do this job in the first place. They showed me how to get back in control, renew my purpose and zeal for my job. I quickly developed more confidence and self-belief and I have since seen the impact it has had on the rest of my school, from my SLT, the children to the governors.”
“Integrity’s coaching allowed me to truly appreciate the importance of leading by example and modelling the self-care that I wanted to see in my team. After Coaching, I began to look after myself more carefully and in doing so, I was able to notice how when I feel better, I’m also able to lead better.”
