Graham has served as a governor at Gilmorton Chandler for a number of years; both he and his son were pupils at the School. He worked for Leicestershire County Council for 42 years and recently retired from his role as Corporate Facilities and Operational Property Manager, responsible for all of the County Council’s property portfolio. He holds a degree in Facilities and Property Management, with a diploma in Health and Safety.  Graham has served as a magistrate for 22 years. He is a former board member For East Midlands Property Alliance.

Katherine is a solicitor specialising in property litigation for an international law firm in London, dealing with commercial property disputes of all kinds.   She is also a specialist in insolvency related matters. She is an experienced governor of a Church of England primary school and her husband is the CEO of a cross phase multi academy trust. Katherine lives in the community served by Inspiring Primaries Academy Trust and is a strong advocate for education in local communities.

Paul is the Head Teacher at The Warwickshire Academy. He has been a Head Teacher for the last 10 years working across a range of Academies and Independent Schools, with a career in education spanning over 20 years.  As well as Head Teacher he has been an Accounting Officer for a Multi Academy Trust and Chair for a federation of schools.  Paul has extensive school leadership and Governance experience.

Prior to working in education, Paul worked for a range of multi-national companies as a Business Analyst and Project Manager.

Jane has over 50 years of experience in state education working as a teacher, as a headteacher, as a senior officer for a Local Authority and as a consultant and trainer.  She has also held a number of roles focusing on the development of high quality leadership in schools, including that of Director of the East Midlands Leadership Centre.  As an independent consultant Jane has worked on the development and delivery of regional leadership projects and on the development and delivery of national leadership programmes for the National College for Teaching and Learning.  She is accredited by the National College as a coach and facilitator.

Currently she designs and delivers training programmes for maintained school governors, local governing bodies and independent school governors for Leicestershire County Council.  She is chair of her local Parish Council and a primary school governor.

Following a successful career as National Account Manager with a print and stationery supplier, Alana has 17 years’ experience working with children and young people which started with youth work for Leicestershire County Council.  She developed initiatives to support and inform young people regarding sexual health, drug awareness, self-esteem, self-harm and mental health and subsequently joined Lutterworth College working with a looked after child.

She assisted with the creation of the Student Support Centre (SSC) at the college, supporting vulnerable students across years 7 to 11 and eventually taking the lead role. Responsibilities included increasing student wellbeing, their resilience and academic performance and utilising data to inform strategies.
Outcomes were continuously monitored so the approach could be altered until progress was made. This was particularly effective in engaging students who had extended periods of absence due to illness or trauma.  As a result the Attendance Improvement Officer role for key stage 3 and 4 was added to her remit resulting in increased attendance year on year.

Alana worked on the innovative Outreach programme liaising with parents and agencies to provide supportive interventions to primary school children including their transition from primary to secondary education settings. Further to the success of the SSC, she was asked to create a post 16 Study Area at the college.
A particular area of interest is child and student mental health and wellbeing and the particular impact on attendance and academic outcomes.  As part of this, Alana became a mental health advocate creating close ties with CAMHS.  This resulted in coordinated mental health training and regular CAMHS representation within school.  This work gained county recognition for this provision at the time.  Support for students, their families and communities is of paramount importance, however Alana is also aware of challenges affecting school staff.

After graduating from university in 1995 with a Law and Marketing degree and a Master’s degree in Employment Law and Relations, Michelle has worked across a variety of commercial, regulatory and public sector organisations over a career span of 27 years. Most recently this included helping with the creation of a new university, along with all the challenges and creativity required to make it a reality.

Michelle is chief operations and resources officer at Brooke Weston Trust with the Exec portfolio for leading professional functions of business improvement and planning, Finance, HR, Risk, procurement, business continuity, catering, Estates, IT, Communications and Health & Safety.

She has experience in leadership, change management, strategy development and a background in business and HR and postgraduate qualifications in performance and change, management, marketing, & organisation development.

Michelle is keen to work as an active board member providing support and challenge, working collaboratively for the benefit of pupils, staff and the wider community.

Andrew has a successful track record of leading schools and a multi academy trust. His educational philosophy is based on a deeply held conviction that all children matter and deserve the best whatever their background or circumstances. As a leader, Andrew’s aim is to lead organisations where teaching is creative and engaging, where colleagues feel they belong and flourish professionally, enabling pupils to feel valued and supported to make the best possible progress whilst developing as individuals.