Jen Fook

Executive Director, Communications, Operations and Growth, Ted Wragg Trust

As the first in her family to go to university, Jen understands how transformative education can be, a belief deepened by her most important role: being a mum of two. These experiences inspire her commitment to ensure every child, regardless of background, has the opportunity to thrive in their local school and dream big for their future. She began her career in higher education, gaining expertise in project management, executive support and communications. Jen joined the Ted Wragg Trust in 2023 as Senior Project Manager and now serves as Executive Director, overseeing communications, operations and growth. She loves working across the trust’s shared services to support schools and strengthen community ties and enjoys welcoming new schools into the trust, placing the ambition to make sure children love coming to school and staff love coming to work at the heart of its mission.

1 Breakout sessions: Series two

The next phase of trust leadership: Building connected organisations

As trusts mature, the challenge is shifting from building strong individual functions to leading increasingly complex organisations. Drawing on new research across finance, HR, estates and IT, this session explores how leadership across these domains is evolving and what this means for executive teams looking to build more connected organisations. We will examine the capabilities, structures and strategic capacity required as trusts grow in scale and complexity and consider what trust leaders need to do differently in the next phase of trust maturity. Ideal for trust leaders responsible for organisational strategy and development.

14:30

1 Programme

Great expectations: how communications scaffolding can support schools and parents

Taking on and turning round schools can leave parents unsettled. Jen Fook from Ted Wragg shares some of the trust's experiences and how they have refined their approach to parent communications, encouraging schools to build on a baseline approach that helps ensure good practice and consistency, while reflecting the individual character and setting of their schools from nursery to sixth form.