Share • Learn • Grow Leadership Circle

Structured CPD, coaching, mentoring and a supportive professional community for School Business Managers and operational leaders.

You carry responsibility for people, budgets, buildings, systems, compliance and much more. Your own professional development deserves time and investment too.

Share • Learn • Grow gives you six in-person CPD days across the year, alongside individual support to apply your learning, strengthen your leadership and make progress on priorities in school.

You’ll join a consistent group of 8–10 like-minded business leaders, bringing real challenges and learning with people who understand your role.

What will your development look like?

We begin with discovery sessions with you and your headteacher, agreeing your development priorities and what progress should look like.

Your goals might include building confidence in difficult conversations, strengthening team accountability, improving an operational process or creating more capacity through clearer priorities and delegation.

The programme combines:

• Six facilitated Leadership Circles  shared learning, professional discussion and practical problem-solving.

• Individual coaching  supporting personal development, confidence and leadership growth.

• A professional online community  connection, practical tools and ongoing peer support.

• Workplace application turning learning into meaningful action within the school.

• Accountability and impact review  tracking progress and evidencing improvements.

What could this help you with?

• Finding clarity when everything feels urgent.

• Building confidence in decisions and difficult conversations.

• Strengthening delegation, ownership and accountability.

• Working more effectively with your headteacher and wider team.

• Moving an operational improvement forward.

• Recognising and evidencing the difference your work makes.

You don’t need to arrive with everything figured out. Bring a question, a challenge or something you want to improve.

A community alongside you throughout the year

The online community is a central part of your membership.

Between sessions, you have somewhere to ask questions, share experience, explore resources and stay connected with people who understand the responsibility you carry.

Together, the CPD, coaching and community support your growth in confidence, capability and capacity. Agreed goals and regular reviews help you and your headteacher see your progress.

Why I created Share • Learn • Grow

I am Lucy North, founder of True North School Business.

Having led school business and operational services, I understand how much this role asks of you and how easily your own development can be pushed aside.

I created Share • Learn • Grow because useful learning needs time, support and follow-through to make a difference.

I want you to have a circle where you feel understood, can think openly and get support with what happens next.

Be part of our founding circles

We’re bringing together first groups of school business and operational leaders.

As a founding member, you’ll help shape the conversations and priorities around the real needs of the people in your circle.

If you would  value regular support from people who understand your role, I’d love you to join us.