Workshop Overview

What sets great leaders apart, and how do you ensure your impact as a leader is growing? This workshop is an opportunity to focus on evaluating and developing your personal leadership philosophy. Through research, practical application and professional dialogue, we will come to understand the scope and application of leadership, the differences between leadership and management – and why both are essential skill sets in effective school leaders.

We will consider how you successfully engage with the community, and culture, around you. We will explore how, in developing your own leadership strengths and understanding your potential blind spots, you will be empowered to inspire and develop the strengths of others through empathetic and technical collaboration. Finally, we will focus on how you bring this all together to create a lasting, positive impact on your learning community.

Facilitator:

Ethan Van Drunen

Ethan is an international school head with leadership experience in both day and residential schools in the USA, Serbia, Myanmar, India, and now Namibia. He has a Masters in International Education Policy from the Harvard Graduate School of Education and School Administrator licensure through the University of San Francisco and Washington State University. His interests are in strategic leadership, aligning budgets to priorities, building cultures of collaboration, leading change and innovation in schools, teacher training and professional learning communities, and developing a leadership philosophy for use in values-based decision making.