Boarding Leadership Conference Day 2 – Marketing and Development followed by Recruiting and Retaining boarding staff

• Date: May 22, 2023
• Time: 11:30 – 13:30
• Cost: Member Rate – £195 / Non-member Rate – £390
• Audience: Anyone who works in boarding who has a desire to be the best they possibly can be.
• Platform: Zoom (online)

To accommodate the busy schedules of TIOB members, we have decided to restructure the TIOB Boarding leadership conference and split the day into three sessions across three separate dates.

• 13^th March: 10.30am-12.30pm : Effective ways to develop you and your boarding team followed by Authentic Leadership
• 22^nd May 11.30am-1.30pm: Marketing and Development followed by Recruiting and Retaining boarding staff
• 16^th June 11.30am-1.30pm: Strategic management of boarding followed by Crisis management case studies.

Should you not be able to attend all three dates, all sessions will be recorded and made available to delegates.

This conference promises to ensure that individuals in boarding can reflect on their performance in a range of spheres within their role. You will be presented with a range of perspectives, support and inspiration from experts in the field. By the end of the conference, you should be able to evaluate and develop a strategic plan allowing you to be more effective and focused in your role.

Learning outcomes:

Delegates will:

• Have the opportunity to consider their position on their boarding journey and consider how to review and act upon current best practice
• Have up to date knowledge on themes relating to how they can achieve the best possible personal outcomes
• Take away learning and ideas on how to motivate themselves and team members.

Programme:

11:30 – 12:30 Supporting marketing and development

Any position in boarding requires an individual to have the ability to have a rapport and empathy with the young people in their care. However, the role of houseparent is so much more than the pastoral care of the pupils in your house. This session identifies how in the you can support the marketing team in selling and promoting boarding in your school.

This session will require you to reflect on your own strengths and weaknesses and how to develop strategies to enhance your confidence and skill in promoting yourself and your house.

• Speakers:
  • Louise Bennett, CEO, IDPE
  • Sophie Langdale, Director of Admissions and Communications, Radley College

12:30 – 13:30 Recruiting and retaining boarding staff

Recruiting and retaining staff in a 24/7 boarding environment has never been more difficult. This session looks at a variety of ways in which you can be innovative in finding and keeping members of your boarding team and retain them.

• Speaker:
  • Speaker: Paul Kilbride, Headmaster,  Old Swinford Hospital

Louise Bennett, CEO, IDPE

Louise is Joint-CEO of The Institute of Development Professionals in Education (IDPE), the ‘goto’ organisation for all those involved with fundraising and engagement in schools. Louise is
responsible for developing training, support and resources to support schools’ fundraising, and champions the impact of schools’ development on providing the best educational
experiences for young people.

Louise has over 20 years’ experience of working across fundraising disciplines, and has previously held senior fundraising roles at The Stroke Association and Shelter Cymru. Louise has also volunteered for a number of organisations, from being Chair of Trustees for Cardiff Women’s Aid to being a Board member for the Wales Council for Voluntary Action (WCVA)
and more recently, supporting the PTA at her children’s primary school.

Louise is passionate about fundraising, and as such has found herself hiking across Iceland, running a marathon and cycling from Cardiff to Dublin, to raise money for good causes.

Sophie Langdale, Director of Admissions and Communications, Radley College

Sophie joined Radley College in September 2020 from Wycombe Abbey, a girls’ boarding school, where she was Director of Admissions. Prior to that Sophie was Director of Admissions and External Relations at Magdalen College School, Oxford for nearly a decade. Having read Classics and played a lot of lacrosse at Durham University, Sophie’s early career spanned fifteen years in finance and broadcast journalism at Sky News.

Paul Kilbride, Headmaster,  Old Swinford Hospital

Paul Kilbride is the nineteenth headmaster of Old Swinford Hospital. He studied at a British Army school in Germany before returning to university in England to read Modern History at Magdalen College, Oxford. Paul trained as a teacher in Birmingham and has worked in both the maintained and independent sectors, holding positions including Head of Department, Director of Sixth Form and Deputy Head. He has an MA in Education from UCL and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. His teaching experience includes single sex, boarding, selective and non-selective schools and he has served as governor both at secondary and primary level. He is married to Emma with three young sons.

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