Molly Knight
Senior Project Partner, Edwin People
Molly Knight has over 10 years’ experience across the education sector, including maintained schools, school trusts and higher education. She specialises in project and change management, working closely with education leaders to deliver strategic priorities and organisational improvement. Her experience includes managing trust mergers, academy conversions, external reviews and wider change projects. Molly brings expertise in stakeholder engagement, communications, governance and workshop facilitation, ensuring projects are well-coordinated and delivered successfully. She takes a collaborative, solutions-focused approach, building strong relationships with education leaders, managing complex challenges and keeping positive outcomes for schools, staff and pupils at the heart of her work.
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Professional growth for all: Building a strategy for support staff development
This session explores how Star Academies, in partnership with Edwin People, is embedding professional growth for co-professionals and support staff into its wider strategy, recognising them as key contributors to culture. We’ll explore how structured growth conversations and the co-creation of a trust-wide competency framework are building clarity, consistency and a culture of investment in support staff.