Liz Dawson is a leadership & wellbeing coach / supervisor through her company, Success Coaching Ltd. and lead coach/verifier of the Carnegie Centre of Excellence for Mental Health in Schools School Mental Health Awards.

Liz is a member of the CollectivEd Advisory Board at Leeds Beckett University; the Centre for Mentoring, Coaching and Professional Learning and is also a COllectivED Associate. She a Yorkshire & Humber regional leader of WomenEd and a Women Leading in Education coach; coaching #WomenEd, #BAMEed & #LGBTed colleagues in their career development & agitating for change on Twitter as @LizDawsonCoach. She is also a governor of a day and boarding school and has experience of governance in the state sector in secondary and primary schools.

A former secondary deputy headteacher, trainer, Local Authority leadership consultant & LA SIP manager, Liz experienced work-related stress in a previous role and after five months’ absence due to depression and anxiety, successfully returned to her role before changing careers to support the mental health and wellbeing of others.

Liz now supports the leadership and wellbeing of leaders, including 1:1 supervision & coaching, in corporate settings and in schools. She delivers training on wellbeing, leadership, & team building, coaching clients across the world using video conferencing. Liz speaks about wellbeing and leadership at conferences and has presented at the National SSAT and National Work Experience Conferences. Liz also supports change management in organisations in the public & private sectors and offers mediation and investigation services.

As an accredited Critical Skills (EBD) Master Teacher trainer/coach, Liz has coached teachers in England & Scotland in the use of rubrics to develop their practice and rubrics to help pupils acquire knowledge, skills & dispositions through meaningful learning experiences underpinned by Emotional Intelligence.

Liz has trained teachers in Sweden, Iceland, Romania & Greece on teaching & learning & quality assurance and set up the Bradford Work Experience team; winning a National Work Experience Award.

Resources and Publications

Liz co-created the School Mental Health Awards frameworks and guidelines for schools, boarding schools and FE colleges. She was co-author of Bradford and District Council's Careers Education & Guidance Quality Mark. Liz’s contributions are also credited in DfE publications on education business partnerships, on vocational and work-related learning, including a work experience case study, and on careers education. She is a contributor in the Working Paper Series of Leeds Beckett University School of Education.

Getting a School Culture 'Right'