Ethical Training and Consultancy

Ethical Training and Consultancy (ETC) is a not-for-profit education consultancy that sends all profit generated in the UK to support training and consultancy in sub-Saharan Africa.

ETC is an association of education professionals with many years experience of working in schools, Local Authorities and national bodies. Many also have experience of development work in Africa. Our associates share a commitment to limit their personal income and provide consultancy to support the goal of quality education for all in Africa.

For schools and Local Authorities in the UK we offer advice, consultancy and training on:

•	Performance development/management and national standards
•	School staffing structures
•	Succession planning and the management of change
•	Work/life balance and flexible working
•	Senior and middle leadership development
•	Life career counselling (finance, health and job satisfaction)
•	Extended services and the children's workforce
•	Occupational and functional mapping

For schools and regional/district education departments in Africa we offer:

•	Capacity building
•	Textbook writing and development
•	Curriculum development
•	Leadership training, coaching and mentoring
•	Teacher training and classroom methodology
•	Development of teacher and leadership standards
•	Assessment, evaluation and examinations
•	Continuing professional development

If you would like to discuss how we might work with you or how you might work with us, you can find our contact details here.

ian.draper@ethicaltraining.com

In February 2006 Ian completed an 18 month placement for Voluntary Service Overseas as an Education Change Management Consultant in Ethiopia. Between April 2002 and September 2004 he was Director of QLM, an Education training and consultancy business with a turnover of £1.5m pa. Ian is now Director of ETC.

Ian was a teacher and Vice Principal in three schools in New Zealand between 1971 and 1982. On returning to the UK he continued teaching in Nottingham City. In 1989 he began work as a school adviser supporting staff development, CPD, and performance management in Nottinghamshire schools.

In 2000 Ian was successful in winning the DfES contract to manage the Performance Management Consortium for the East Midlands Region. This work was consistently evaluated at the forefront of the nine national consortia.

Since 2002 Ian has provided training and consultancy to schools and LEAs throughout the UK. In September 2004 he began working as a volunteer supporting the development of education in Northern Ethiopia. His work focused on the achievement of the United Nations Millennium Goal of providing quality Universal Primary Education by 2015.

Ian has run many national conferences in the UK for headteachers, teachers, governors and school improvement advisers on performance management and organisational development and has worked with schools, LEAs and government agencies on schools of the future, demographic change and workforce reform and organisational re-structuring and managing individual and organisational change. He organised the British Performance Management Conference between 1991 and 2004.

Ian has regularly provided consultancy to the DfES, TTA , NCSL and many LEAs in the UK.

Ian has published many articles on Performance Management, Workforce Reform and Professional Development. During the 1990’s he made a series of videos with Dorothy Heathcote on the use of drama as a methodology for integrated teaching & learning.

Ian is a trained counsellor and as well as continuing to practice professionally, provides counselling and communication skills training for teachers and leaders working in education settings.

In 2004 Ian completed his MBA, at Nottingham University, specialising in the management of the education workforce through to 2020 and the implementation of effective and sustainable change in teachers’ working practices.

The challenge for schools in developed countries over the next fifteen years will be their effective management of this change, the key elements of which are:

•	an ageing profession with 50% of teachers aged over 50 within the next fifteen years;
•	retention of excellent teachers; and
•	the shifting balance of support staff and teaching staff.

Among the solutions Ian has developed are: innovative restructuring of schools and their staff, a new model of leadership, more effective use of the most experienced and skilled teachers by extending career opportunities and enabling them to work past retirement age and a life career counselling service that assists a person achieve their desired balance of health, finance and job satisfaction in their career.

In his work in Ethiopia Ian has supported the decentralisation of education through more effective utilisation of capacity, a focus on quality, the use of a project management approach, setting standards for teachers and for schools and developing teaching methodology and practice. He has worked with DFID to design innovative projects to train and develop school principals and local and regional education leaders through on- the-job coaching and mentoring.

Ian’s consultancy and training work in the UK supports his on-going education work in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Peter is our Project Manager. He took early retirement in 2005 after 35 years working for the BBC in London, latterly as a Senior Project Manager in BBC Technology.

After graduating in 1970 from the University of Southampton with an Honours degree in Electronics, Peter joined the BBC as a graduate engineer, and immediately became immersed in both practical engineering on technical equipment, and the operation of that equipment for programme-making. He experienced many of the different technical aspects of broadcasting and was with the Government/BBC's flagship educational initiative the Open University for several years as it established itself.

In 1975 Peter joined the BBC's Studio Capital Projects Department as a project engineer, gaining promotion to Project Manager and SPM before retirement. As a Project Manager, he was expected to exercise a great deal of autonomy, and to take responsibility for projects ranging from minor equipment procurement and installation to major works involving acquisition of property, building work, and all aspects of fitting out including technical and services.

Such projects would require the involvement of specialist engineers, planning, budgeting and timetabling, gaining technical and financial approvals, tendering and selection, contract placement, monitoring and control of progress, reporting, acceptance testing, training, handover to client, and any necessary follow-up (e.g. defects liabilities).

The nature of this work has given Peter broad experience of project work, mostly in engineering fields, but also in technical, property, exhibition work, and of course, working with programme making staff and producers. He has also come into contact with technical systems required by large companies, and with the finance and management sectors of such companies, and has an understanding of the briefings, requirements, and justifications necessary for making cases for financial approval at all levels of management.

Although based in London, Peter has led project work on eight of the BBC's Local Radio stations, as well as being responsible for radio project work in Belfast for two years. He was charged with ensuring the safety of all the BBC's overseas establishments (principally News and World Service) from disruption at the millennium, requiring a number of overseas tours. He has project-managed a major touring exhibition for the BBC, and built a permanent public exhibition at Broadcasting House. Recently he has also headed several major building and construction projects in London and Birmingham.

andy@m2massociates.co.uk

Andy is an experienced Management Consultant. He combines extensive skills as a trainer and consultant with successful senior leadership and headship experience in secondary schools and local authority settings.

Andy has successfully undertaken a range of major consultancy tasks since joining Mouchel plc in 2002 and setting up his own consultancy (M2M Associates) in 2008.

Andy’s approach to service improvement is built around a dual focus on quick-return strategies and longer-term capacity building. The development of emotionally literate behaviour in leaders and managers is central to his approach. He believes that leadership culture and capacity throughout the organisation are the critical ingredients in the drive to raise standards and that the desired leadership culture can be best developed and modelled within leadership teams.

Andy has strong consultancy skills and is valued by clients for his comprehensive approach, responsive consultative style, practical hands-on stance and clear oral and written communications.

Andy’s experience includes:

•	management and delivery of complex projects (up to £2m) in multi-stakeholder and partnership environments within the public sector;
•	successful school and college leadership in a challenging socio-economic contexts;
•	monitoring and evaluation of standards within a local authority inspection service;
•	organisational development and improvement within the schools and local authority sectors;
•	development of processes and structures for the delivery of improved performance;
•	provision of educational advice within BSF and the Academies programme.

Key Skills

•	Leadership of complex multi-agency organisations
•	Project management and delivery within the public sector
•	Stakeholder management and engagement for successful partnership working
•	Facilitation and verbal/written communication
•	Achievement of high personal credibility through building trust and developing key client relationships
•	Flexibility and responsiveness to client requirements
•	Effective use of emotional intelligence and empathy.

jean.hemsley@ethicaltraining.com

Between April 2000 and March 2002 Jean was the administrative and financial manager for the DfES Performance Management Consortium for the East Midlands region. This contract was worth £1.2 million and involved producing statistics, overseeing the budget and reporting to the DfES on a regular basis.

Between 1991 and 2000 Jean managed the administration and finances for appraisal services to schools within Nottinghamshire Education Department. During this time she was involved in the development of a database to manage headteacher appraisal which was used by a number of Local Education Authorities across the country. She ran regular training sessions for the database users and provided on-site one-to-one training and consultancy on managing headteacher appraisal.

Whilst working for Nottinghamshire County Council Jean managed both the LPSH (Leadership Programme for Serving Headteachers and NPQH (National Professional Qualification for Headteachers) programmes.