Karen Bramwell OBE

CEO, Forward As One Church of England MAT

Karen Bramwell the founding CEO of Forward As One CE multi academy trust, working with the central team and school leaders to provide the very best for children and communities. Karen is passionate about the rights of our children to a fantastic education, developing strong leadership and system leadership – making more of a difference to more children. She became a National Leader of Education in 2011 and has supported significant improvements in a large number of schools across the northwest and beyond. Karen regularly provides training to other headteachers and school leaders across the country and currently facilitates on the NPQEL. In 2019, Karen was awarded the Women in Leadership Award by She Inspires. Most recently, Karen served on the Lancashire and West Yorkshire Advisory Board for six years for the DfE. She currently sits on the Greater Manchester Priority Area Partnership Board. In June 2024, Karen was awarded an OBE for services to education in the King’s Birthday Honours list.

1 Workshops series two

Reimagining Professional Development for human-centred schools

<span data-teams="true">Facilitated by Carrie, this session offers insight into building flourishing, human-centred professional development. Karen and Elliot will share how their “one team, one mission, one family” culture builds coherence across six local authorities through evidence-informed, habit-building communities of practice and a simple, values-driven “flight path” for teachers and leaders. Lawrence will explore Future Academies’ cradle-to-career vision, where values-based recruitment, leadership coaching, and storytelling create deep staff investment and discretionary effort. With immersive programmes, alignment tools, and building professional communities, these trusts are rethinking what development means.  </span>