2025 highlights

Verity is the Regional Director for Yorkshire at the Reach Foundation; she facilitates the Yorks100 programme for aspiring headteachers in Yorkshire, and designs and delivers training on embedding strong relationships for Reach Foundation's Cradle to Career Partnership. She's interested in promoting and codifying excellent relationship-centred practice in education settings as a way to support children, young people and their families to access lives of choice and opportunity. She is also a proud governor at Co-op Academy Grange.

Previously, she was an Assistant Vice Principal at Dixons Trinity Chapeltown, with responsibility for curriculum and community engagement, an Assistant Headteacher (Curriculum and Assessment) and Head of Modern Foreign Languages at Reach Academy. She set up the MFL London network in 2016, completed the Limited Resources Teacher Training programme in Uganda in 2013, and was part of the 2011 Teach First cohort.

Sophia is a recent graduate from the University of Cambridge. She now works for the Reach Foundation, a charity whose mission is to combat the inequality gap that still exists in our education system in the UK. She is currently writing a book exploring the intimate stories of students, teachers, families and community leaders in one of London’s toughest boroughs.

Sharath is a globally recognised authority on leadership at inflection moments. He is an acclaimed advisor, speaker and author supporting leaders and organisations to futureproof success. Sharath has also established a Generational Success Lab to help organisations across sectors navigate the generational inflection moment in our workforce and society.

Sharath teaches leadership at both Oxford and Cambridge Universities. He is the author of two influential books, Inflection: A Roadmap for Leaders at a Crossroads and Intrinsic: A Manifesto to Reignite our Inner Drive. He was made an OBE in the Queen's 2022 New Year's Honours. He holds degrees from Cambridge University (First Class Honours), Oxford University & INSEAD (MBA with Distinction).

Sharath lives in London with his wife and two boys. He is a keen reader, restaurant and theatre goer, traveller, and a nationally competitive pickleball player. He is currently working on Inheritable, an intergenerational novel.