What We Do
Facilitation and Learning Design
Ricky starts with the needs of each client and works in a partnership model to co-design convenings that lead to new insights and catalyse action.
This includes overall learning design, session protocols and strategic facilitation of roundtables, forums, workshops and conferences. These range from internal workshops to high level public events.
Her processes are focused on fostering authentic, challenging and optimistic events that help stakeholders connect, communicate, delve into the issue and find ways to work together to have a greater impact.
Ricky also convenes alliances or networks for clients. She leverages system leadership experience from US and Australian jurisdictions.
Leadership Development
Ricky provides leadership development for senior education system leadership teams to help them figure out what matters most next, develop strategy and improve their ways of working as a team. This builds their shared capacity to lead and sustain improvement in their system.
Ricky brings together a rich research base, field-tested processes and protocols, a deep understanding of how change happens in a system and a challenging coaching style that pushes you to have greater impact.
She usually works with leadership teams over a period of 12 – 24 months. Inspired by these teams Ricky is currently undertaking PhD research at the University of Nottingham (UK) on how system leaders help Principals improve student learning outcomes.
Speaking and Professional Learning
Ricky has worked with over 5000 teachers, principals, district and system leaders in the last 3 years in school based professional learning and principal conferences.
She is a warm, dynamic communicator and keynote speaker who connects with people in the room and helps them connect with each other and the content that matters to them in their context. Ricky draws on leadership, management and education research; and leverages school and system leadership experience from US and Australian jurisdictions.
