People Strategy That Drives Retention, Growth And Impact

In a period of national workforce challenge, creating a strong people strategy is no longer a nice-to-have.  It is central to stability, improvement and growth.  In this session, Sharon Carlyon shares how her trust has intentionally designed its people strategy to create belonging, grow talent and enable high performance across the workforce.

Grounded in development, wellbeing, workload and staff voice, this session looks at how a coaching-led and inclusive approach can move beyond traditional CPD and help people choose to stay, grow and succeed.  Sharon will explore the practical steps her trust has taken to invest in its people, and the measurable difference this has made to retention, recruitment, staff satisfaction and wider organisational success.

In this session we explore

• How a people strategy can be intentionally designed to create belonging across a trust

• Why development, wellbeing, workload and staff voice all matter in building a culture where people want to stay and grow

• What it looks like to move beyond traditional CPD and create a more inclusive, coaching-led approach to people development

• The strategic actions taken to invest in talent, leadership and staff experience across the workforce

• How this work has influenced retention, recruitment, staff satisfaction and school improvement

• Why people strategy has become a key driver of organisational stability and trust growth

Take home points

• A clearer understanding of how belonging can be built into people strategy by design

• Practical ideas for creating a more inclusive and coaching-led culture

• Insight into how people strategy can support retention, growth and staff satisfaction

• Examples of how staff development, wellbeing and workload can be tackled as part of one joined-up approach

• Greater clarity on the link between people strategy, organisational stability and sustained improvement

This session is for

Trust leaders, CFOs, COOs, HR and people leads, school business leaders, headteachers and senior leaders, as well as anyone responsible for workforce development, retention and organisational culture across a school or trust.

Sharon Carlyon