Destino Live! A Headteacher conference unlike anything you’ve attended before.
School leaders often struggle because they are carrying too much. Senior teams are consumed by the operational. Staff can become dependent on leaders for answers and difficult conversations repeat themselves without having the impact they should.
Destino Live 2027: Transforming Schools Through Coaching is a one-day conference for headteachers and school leaders who want to explore a different way.
A day to step outside the day-to-day demands of school leadership and consider what could change for you, your leadership team and your school.
Come and explore how coaching, in its many forms, can become the vehicle for that change.
Coaching is conversation with purpose.
It is a deliberate way of listening, questioning and creating the space for people to think differently about themselves, their work and the decisions they make.
As you can probably tell, we believe in the power of coaching.
On the day, delegates will explore how coaching can help:
The conference will focus on successful implementation and what coaching models in schools can look like in practice.
When responsibility continually flows back to the headteacher, leadership becomes unsustainable.
Coaching offers another way to lead.
By understanding your own leadership patterns and changing the way you respond, question and enable others, you can develop leaders who are equipped to take responsibility rather than continually looking upwards for the answer.
Sometimes an SLT needs protected space to stop doing and start thinking.
Group coaching creates the conditions for senior leaders to step outside the operational noise, challenge assumptions and hold one another accountable for the work that matters most.
Developing coaching practice changes how leaders listen, question, challenge and support. Instead of immediately providing solutions, leaders learn how to help others think.
Over time, those conversations can build agency, professional confidence and greater ownership for improvement.
Headteachers and senior school leaders spend much of their working lives creating thinking space for everybody else.
Executive coaching provides protected, confidential space to make sense of what you’re experiencing, notice the patterns that may be keeping you stuck and think carefully about what needs to change.
Giving advice is quick and solving the problem yourself can be even quicker!
Learning to coach changes the conversation. You learn to listen differently, challenge thinking and resist the temptation to provide every answer.
Your experience of leadership has value far beyond your current role.
Paralympian and coach
CEO Optimus Coach Academy
Director of Secondary School Improvement
Whether you lead a small rural primary or a large multi-academy trust, Destino Live is designed to bring school leaders together, wherever you’re starting from.
Your ticket includes:
No tiers of privilege – just fair pricing based on your school size, so every Headteacher and school leader can take part.
This event is non-refundable.
For headteachers, senior leaders, trust leaders and others responsible for developing people and leading change in schools.
