Sukwinder Bassi

SRMA, School Business Services

Sukwinder Bassi is a School Resource Management Adviser (DfE) and senior executive with 20+ years’ leadership as CEO, COO and Senior VP across UK and international education, charities and commercial organisations. He has led large-scale transformation, strengthened governance and financial sustainability (budgets to £1.5bn), and supported more than 150 schools and trusts to align resources with outcomes. Previous roles include CEO at GEMS Education (UAE/Africa) and regional leadership at AET, Tesco and Adidas.

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How smaller trusts can build capacity: Rethinking structures, outsourcing and collaboration

Join this panel to explore the ways in which smaller trusts are rethinking key levers to increase their capacity. We’ll hear an SMRA perspective, developed across Sukwinder Bassi’s work with over 200 trusts, gain insights into two different trust approaches from Mark Greatrex in London and Gill Martin in Cumbria, and open the floor for discussion with the experts in the room.