Biographies
Jo Saward, Careers Lead. "Passionate about careers education and its importance throughout a young person's school journey since beginning my career in careers with Connexions in 2005, I have been Careers Lead in a large secondary school since 2016 and am halfway through my MA in Careers Education and Coaching at Derby University."
Liane Hambly, Director of Creative Career Coaching. "Liane is director of Creative Career Coaching, which offers professional development programmes for organisations and career coaches. She has taught at a number of UK universities, delivers workshops and keynotes at international conferences and continues to run her own career coaching practice. She is co-author of Creative Career Coaching, Theory into Practice (Routledge 2019), a best-selling book for career practitioners."
Dr Emily Tanner, Head of Research. "Emily Tanner is Head of Research at CEC, leading on research, evaluation and data to measure the impact of the changing careers landscape and to provide insight to support ongoing programme improvements. Emily has worked in education policy evaluation for 20 years at NatCen Social Research, Oxford University and Yale."
Graham Attwell, Co-Director, CareerChat UK "Graham Attwell is a leading researcher and international developer in Technology Enhanced Learning. He provides technical support to ‘LMI for All’ and is also a Co-Director at CareerChat UK."
Chris Percy, Co-Director, CareerChat UK "Chris Percy is a leading economist and highly experienced careers, coach. He is also a Co-Director at CareerChat UK."
Matt Joyce, Regional Lead: North East Ambition. "Matt Joyce is a qualified careers adviser and former careers leader, with over 15 years experience in careers. I've been leading on the North East LEP's North East Ambition since June 2019."
Phil Graham, Primary Facilitator. "Phil Graham is a former primary school teacher and middle leader, now facilitating the Careers Benchmarks: Primary Pilot across the North East LEP region."
Dr Siobhan Neary, Head of The International Centre for Guidance Studies. "Dr Neary is an associate professor of careers at the University of Derby and is the head of the International Centre for Guidance Studies."
Jacqui Phipps County Careers and Enterprise Lead, Josie Finch Enterprise Co-ordinator, New Anglia EAN, Tiffany Evripidou HEC, neaco. "All presenters have been working across Suffolk schools to embed creative and diverse approaches to supporting young people's career ambitions and aspirations. A total of over 20 years experience."
Dr Lyn Barham, CDI Fellow and Project Associate (Research). "Lyn is a careers adviser, then trainer, then researcher, and a Fellow of NICEC alongside her CDI role. After decades of careers work and of green activism, the time to integrate the two strands of life is becoming ‘now or never’ for our planet’s and our children’s futures."
Gareth Brydon - Children & Young People Manager. "Gareth has 48 years lived experience of vision impairment and 20 + experience in the sight loss sector working in a variety of education, employment and partnership development roles."
Marie Jobson: Practice and Development Manager. "Marie oversees effective delivery of Careers Leader focussed practice and development at The Careers and Enterprise Company. Marie previously worked within the senior leadership team at an 11-18 school, where under her leadership of careers, the school was one of the first in the country to meet all 8 Gatsby Benchmarks of good careers guidance."
Sally Emler - Raising Aspirations Co-ordinator. "I have been a PE teacher for nearly 20 years. I became the Raising Aspirations Co-Ordinator in 2016 alongside my normal teaching hours. Over the 5 years, we have extended our provision so that students from year 7 to year 13 have the knowledge and skills to progress successfully to their next stage of learning and future career."
Janet Colledge Careers Education Consultant. "Janet Colledge is the real-life name of @CareersDefender, who is a qualified teacher with over 15 years experience providing award-winning careers education. She is currently chief Careers Education Consultant with Outstanding Careers. She also blogs, presents and writes for various organisations specialising in the management and provision of careers education in the 11–19 sector and is a member of the Quality in Careers Standard Board."
Ms. Puren Savas Gedikoglu, BAEd, MBA Director & Mentor. "Looking back, I was observant as a child, inquisitive as a young person, questioning as an adult. I have always asked ‘how’ and ‘why’, wishing to apply what I have learned for the wider benefit. I am happy to be able to fulfil this wish once more through this seminar...
My degrees in Education, Pedagogy, Management combined with my training in TA (Transactional Analysis) and my experience as Governor for 12 years allowed me to take a holistic and multidisciplinary approach to career guidance for young people."
Huyen Le- MA student in Career Education and Coaching, University of Derby. With over 8 years working in the Training and Business sector in both developing and developed countries in Asia, she supported different groups, including children, young people, professionals, university students and vulnerable groups, in their career and personal development. She specialises in People and Organisational Development to build an inclusive workplace environment.
Rachel Green - Education Engagement and Development Manager. Having spent over 25 years in the education sector, including as a Primary Headteacher and Multi-Academy Trust Careers Leader, Rachel now works for The CEC, developing resources, delivering training for Careers Leaders, SLT, Governors, Enterprise Co-ordinators and Advisers. Rachel also volunteers as a Governor and Enterprise Adviser.
Charley Fowler, Area Manager and UK Education Lead. Charley started in the classroom as a teacher before moving on to work in a Careers department, developing relationships with employers. Now, Charley manages partnerships with 250+ Unifrog partner schools and colleges alongside completing an MA Sociology of Education at UCL and has recently been appointed Unifrog’s UK Education Lead.
Gerard Liston, Director, Forum Talent Potential CIC. Gerard has pioneered ways of bringing curriculum learning to life by working in partnership with local employers. He is a qualified teacher and has received the Sieff Award from Business in the Community for ‘an individual based in the community who has best collaborated with business to benefit society.’
Neil Willis, Regional Lead: Education Challenge. Neil is a qualified teacher with over 16 years of teaching and leadership experience in secondary education. He has been with the North East LEP since 2018, leading our Education Challenge programme.