Emma Duffy
Senior People Partner, Edwin People
Emma Duffy is a Senior People Partner at Edwin People and a Chartered Member of the CIPD, with over nine years’ experience in education HR. She holds a Master’s degree and has worked both internally within school trusts and as an external strategic HR adviser to schools and trusts.
Emma’s experience includes advising on complex employee relations matters, large-scale organisational change, TUPE and trust mergers, organisational design and senior recruitment. She has supported trust leaders through significant change programmes and has delivered high-profile recruitment campaigns across the education sector.
Her work also includes developing and delivering training and providing HR advice and guidance to a range of stakeholders, including school leaders, executive teams and trust boards.
1 Workshops series one
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.