CBI Future Leaders Collaboration

SCHOOLS NorthEast is delighted to be working in partnership with the CBI as part of the Future Leaders programme. The scheme identifies forty high fliers in business who are tipped for the top in the coming years. The participants spend a year undertaking a range of activities to help them to develop their leadership skills and gain an understanding about how they can best contribute to the North East’s development.

Last year’s Future Leaders came from many of the North East’s most successful businesses including Northumbrian Water, Arriva, Dickinson Dees, Barclays and Price Water House Coopers.

This year's project got underway on the 10 February at a briefing session in Newcastle. Seven Teams of Leaders and twenty four of the region’s primary and secondary schools came together to develop individual project plans for the coming months. Future Leaders were tasked with applying their business knowledge and leadership skills to helping schools across the region in the SCHOOLS North Lead to Learn challenges.

The Future Leader groups will showcase their work at the SCHOOLS NorthEast Summit on the 19 June. See below for details of all partcipating schools and leaders and their projects.

Project one: My school has changed; how can we change the perceptions of our community?

Primary
Bowesfield Primary School, Stockton-on-Tees
New Penshaw Primary School, Houghton-le-spring
East Hartford School, Cramlington
Leaders
Alex Latimer - MDA
Gillian Marshall - P&G
Sam Wass - Benchmark Communications
Dr Michael Macaulay - Teeside Business School

Secondary
Dene Community School of Technology, County Durham
Walbottle Campus, Newcastle
Leaders
Amy Davison - Bradley O’Mahoney Public Relations
Andrew Hebden - ncj media
Andrew Grounsell - _space

Project two: Is there a business in my school?

Primary
Fishburn Primary School, Stockton-on-Tees
Hotspur Primary School, Newcastle
Sunningdale Primary School, Sunderland
Valley Road Community School, Sunderland
Leaders
Vicki Brown - Vertu Motors
Aerian Rogers - Baltic
Emma O’Rourke - Emma O'Rourke Limited,
Tim Leigh - FPP Brand Communications

Secondary
Bydales School, Redcar
Park View Community School, Chester-le-street
St John’s Catholic School and Sixth Form, Bishop Auckland
Leaders
Justin Barlow - Muckle LLP
Tobyn Hughes - Nexus
Graeme Stoker - BT
Rachel Pattison - Deloitte

Project three: How can my school inspire, motivate and guide young people to make informed choices about their career that fulfil their potential and meet the needs of the UK economy in the future?

Schools
Academy 360, Sunderland
Durham Federation - Durham Community Business College, Fyndoune Community College
St Bede’s Catholic School & Sixth Form College, County Durham
Leaders
Simon Priestley - Ward Hadaway
Thomas McAlindon - Cole Brooke and Burgess
Audrey Kingham - Tyne Metropolitan College

Project four: How can we bring the best of business into our school?

Primary
Brandling Primary School, Gateshead
The Drive Primary School, Gateshead
Wyndham Primary school, Newcastle
Leaders
Mark Green - Short Richardson Forth
Leanne Moseley - Entrust
Fergus Trim - Quorum Development Partners
Gary Heron - HSBC

Secondary
Carmel RC School, Darlington
Central Newcastle High School
Huntcliff School, Saltburn
Nunthorpe School, Middlesbrough
Ponteland High School
Leaders
Chris Bax - Serco
Mark Simpson - Nigel Wright
One Leader to be announced