Jon Wood

Jon is an executive leadership coach, school improvement adviser and mental health and wellbeing instructor based in Somerset, UK. He has extensive and current experience leading and working alongside schools both nationally and internationally. Jon has successfully developed individual leadership capacity working with existing, new and emerging leaders to fulfil their potential and coaching leadership teams on their strategic approach to school improvement. Previous senior roles have included Regional Director for a large Trust of schools and working as a Cluster Leader in the Middle East, leading a team of 20 advisors in 4 schools on the implementation of a new curriculum. Jon specialises in coaching schools and their leaders to make rapid but sustainable improvement by working intensively alongside clearly defined personal goals. More widely, Jon is a Leadership Performance Coach contributing to a range of NPQ awards. As a Mental Health and Wellbeing Instructor (MHFA, England), Jon has trained over 400 mental health first aiders (UK and internationally) to better support colleagues in the work place and beyond. Jon holds the Certificate for Executive and Senior Level Coaches and Mentors (ILM level 7) and is a member of the European Mentoring and Coaching Council.