Tom Campbell

CEO, E-ACT

Tom Campbell is Chief Executive at E-ACT, a large national multi-academy trust. Tom brings extensive experience of 24 years in education, teaching and leading in schools serving some of the most disadvantaged young people in the country. Tom is also a non-executive director of Olex.AI, an edtech company bringing innovation and creativity to teaching and learning. A psychology and computing graduate, Tom also holds a Cambridge MBA and is an alumni of the Oxford High Performance programme. Tom is also a Fellow of the Chartered College of Teaching and of the RSA.

Build capability and capacity

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Harnessing the wisdom of crowds: How E-ACT is building collective capacity for sustainable school improvement

This interactive workshop explores how E-ACT is transforming school improvement by leveraging the collective expertise and experience across its network of schools. Drawing on James Surowiecki's ‘Wisdom of Crowds’ principles, delegates will discover how structured approaches to gathering and synthesising diverse perspectives can lead to more effective and sustainable school improvement strategies. Tom will examine how E-ACT practically enables schools to tap into their collective intelligence, moving beyond traditional top-down improvement models and building internal capacity in the process. Participants will leave with actionable insights and strategies they can adapt for their own trust contexts, along with frameworks for evaluating the impact of collective intelligence approaches on school improvement outcomes. This workshop relates to the 'build capability and capacity' strand of the conceptual model.