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Leadership in education is one of the most important and demanding roles in our public life. New headteachers, first-time deputies, aspiring senior leaders, and middle leaders all benefit from a confidential, expert thinking partner who has done the job, knows the system, and is genuinely on their side. Our coaching, mentoring, and early leadership support gives them exactly that.
Below, we explain how our work supports the people leading your school, academy, trust, or alternative provision to grow into the role and lead well over time.
What Is Our Coaching, Mentoring and Early Leadership Support?
Our work combines professional coaching, expert mentoring, and structured leadership development. Coaching gives leaders the confidential space to think, decide, and lead better. Mentoring brings the wisdom of experienced practitioners who have walked the same path. Early leadership support adds practical structure, frameworks, and skills for those who are new in role.
We work with leaders at every level — from middle leaders stepping up, to deputy and assistant heads in their first senior role, to new and established headteachers and trust executives.
Who Is This Support For?
It is designed for leaders in maintained schools, academies, multi-academy trusts, alternative provisions, and SEND units and hubs. Headteachers, deputies and assistants, middle leaders, aspiring leaders, and trust executive leaders all benefit. Boards and trusts also commission our work as part of succession planning and leadership development strategies.
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What Does the Support Cover?
Every relationship is built around the individual leader, but typical work includes:
- One-to-one coaching for headteachers and executive leaders
- Mentoring for new and first-time headteachers
- Coaching and mentoring for deputies and assistants
- Structured early-career support for new senior leaders
- Middle leadership coaching and development
- Aspiring headship and aspiring senior leader programmes
- Confidential thinking-partner support during periods of pressure or change
- Career planning and progression support
- Wellbeing-focused coaching
How Does This Support Help Your School, Academy, Trust, or Alternative Provision?
1
Develop leaders faster and better
Coaching and mentoring accelerate growth. Leaders make better decisions sooner, learn from experience more deeply, and grow into the role with more confidence.
2
Protect and sustain headteachers
Headship is intense and often lonely. A trusted, confidential coach or mentor gives heads the support they need to lead well and lead long.
3
Strengthen succession planning
When middle and senior leaders are coached and stretched, your next promotion is more likely to come from within. That stability is a real strategic advantage.
4
Build a culture of professional growth
When leaders model continuous development, others follow. Coaching at the top quietly raises expectations across the whole team.
5
Support new leaders through transition
The first year in a new senior role is the steepest learning curve in education. We help your new leaders navigate it well.
6
Improve decision-making at the top
Better thinking produces better decisions. A skilled coach helps leaders slow down, see the whole picture, and choose wisely.
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How Our Coaching and Mentoring Works
- 1We meet with the leader and, where appropriate, the commissioner to agree goals and outcomes.
- 2We match the leader carefully with the right coach or mentor from our network.
- 3Sessions are scheduled regularly across the agreed period, in person or online.
- 4Each session is confidential, structured, and focused on the leader’s priorities.
- 5We can provide light-touch progress summaries to commissioners where appropriate, without breaching confidentiality.
What You Get at the End
From a coaching, mentoring or leadership engagement, you receive:
- A leader who thinks more clearly, decides more confidently, and leads more effectively
- Stronger professional habits and a sustainable approach to the role
- Improved capacity to manage pressure, ambiguity, and change
- A clear development trajectory for the leader and their team
- A more resilient leadership pipeline across your organisation
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Key Features of Our Service
Carefully matched coaches and mentors
— We pair leaders with the right person for their context, phase, and stage of career.
Confidential and professional
— Every conversation is held in confidence and conducted to professional coaching standards.
Practical and grounded
— Our coaches and mentors have done the job. They understand both the theory and the reality.
Why Choose Jarvis Education?
Our coaches and mentors are former headteachers, executive leaders, and senior education professionals. They understand the role from the inside, and they know how to use coaching well — to challenge as well as to support, to stretch as well as to steady. That is the kind of partnership that builds great leaders.
Next Steps & How to Get Started
- Speak to one of our experts. We will listen to the leader’s situation, explain our approach, and match them with the right coach or mentor.
- Once we agree the scope, we confirm everything in writing and arrange the first session. Most leaders feel the benefit very quickly.
- Contact us today to discuss how we can coach, mentor, or support leaders in your school, academy, trust, or alternative provision.
- We are ready to support the people who lead.
Who We Work With
We support settings of every type across England and internationally.
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