Caroline is a qualified solicitor and freelance strategy consultant specialising in education and charities.
She was most recently employed as Chief Executive of the UK’s Independent Schools Inspectorate, where she also developed its international consultancy arm.
Caroline was previously interim Chief Executive of anti-prejudice education charity The Anne Frank Trust UK and is currently vice chair of its trustee board.
Caroline’s experience
She is an experienced senior leader who has worked in education for much of the last twenty years, most recently as Chief Executive of the Independent Schools Inspectorate. For fifteen years, she was a member of the senior management team at one of the UK’s largest schools’ groups, The Girls’ Day School Trust, leading the legal, health and safety, HR and governance departments
Caroline was a long-standing member of the Almeida Theatre’s local liaison committee and for ten years was a trustee of The Anne Frank Trust UK, an education charity working to empower young people to challenge all forms of prejudice and discrimination. She is now a trustee of an innovative multi-academy trust, Aldridge Education Trust, which champions helping young people find their voice through creativity. In addition to this Caroline chairs the board of trustees for Peer Productions, which provides arts education for neurodivergent students.
She has a particular interest in talent development, culture change and mental well-being and has recently undertaken her coach training.
Caroline has two teenage children, is a lover of the written word and in her spare time has recently completed a MA in Children’s Literature at the University of Roehampton.
Key Skills
- HR Policy and Practice
- Talent Development
- Culture Change
- Mentoring