Being 10% Braver

Keziah Featherstone is a co-founder, trustee and strategic leader for #WomenEd and a member of the Headteachers’ Roundtable, a non-political educational think-tank. After twenty years in senior leadership, she currently she lives with her husband, daughter, three cats and three pugs in the West Midlands where she is proud to be Executive Headteacher of Q3 Academy Tipton, a part of the Mercian Trust, her second headship. Keziah has written English educational resources for Pearson and Teachit, as well as articles for publications such as Tes, The Guardian and Schools Week, she also co-edited 10% Braver: Inspiring Women to Lead Education and Being 10% Braver. Joyously, Vivienne Porritt OBE is a co-founder, trustee and Global Strategic Leader of WomenEd, a global charity which empowers and elevates aspiring and existing women leaders in education. As a leadership consultant, Vivienne supports school and trust leaders with vision, strategy, professional learning and development, impact evaluation and DEIJ and she is also a coach and holds several governance roles.Vivienne is a former secondary headteacher and Vice President of the Chartered College of Teaching as well as Director for School Partnerships at University College London, Institute of Education. She writes for practitioner and academic journals and is co-editor of 10% Braver: Inspiring Women to Lead Education (Sage, 2019) and Being 10% Braver (Sage/Corwin, 2021).

• Part 1: Braver in the workplaceChapter 1: Being 10% braver in Higher Education - Dorothy Newbury-Birch Chapter 2: Coffee, Calpol and co-headship - Claire Mitchell and Emma TurnerChapter 3: Taking the heat out of the menopause in the workplace - Michelle CookeChapter 4: Learning to dance in the rain - Clare ErasmusChapter 5: Dynamic part-time leadership - Frances AstonChapter 6: Making middle leadership count - Emily RankinChapter 7: Being a woman and a leader with a disability - Ruth Golding Chapter 8: Investing in ourselves as leaders: a guilty pleasure? - Kerry Jordan-Daus and Lacey AustinPart 2: Advocating for othersChapter 9: When your partner is a female leader - Andy Mitchell Chapter 10: Stand by all women - Keziah Featherstone with Jon Chaloner, Vic Goddard, Dan Morrow and Malcolm Richards Chapter 11: If there isn’t a seat around the table, be the one who buys the chairs - Hilary Goldsmith Chapter 12: What governors can do to build inclusive workplaces - Lesley Dolben and Natalie de Silva Part 3: Braving the changeChapter 13: Retirement is not a dirty word - Fiona McSorley Chapter 14: Returning to teaching and leadership after illness - Rachael Paget Chapter 15: Being an international school leader - Liz Free with Sue Aspinall, Ruth Barsby and Pauline O’Brien Chapter 16: A small fish in a big pond: educational leadership outside of a school environment - Lizana Oberholzer Chapter 17: Overcoming the challenges of a woman leader with a disability in education - Sharon McCormack Part 4: Daring to be differentChapter 18: Being taken seriously as a young leader: Can I see your ID? - Gemma Sant Chapter 19: Why it’s ‘in’ to be an introverted leader? - Alex Fairlamb Chapter 20: Let me take you on a journey… - Jules Daulby Chapter 21: Walking Gaily Forward - Lisa Hannay Part 5: Owning our braveryChapter 22: Brave vulnerability - Debra Rutley Chapter 23: Being comfortable and authentic as an LGBT+ leader and role model - Claire NichollsChapter 24: Asylum - Felicity King Chapter 25: Slaying the dragon of imposter syndrome - Imogen SeniorChapter 26: Moving mindsets and failing forward - Jacinta Calzada-Mayronne and Melissa Egri-McCauley Part 6: Tackling an unfair systemChapter 27: We can’t be what we can’t see: Make sure you’re not the one blocking the view - Penny Rabiger Chapter 28: What to do if you find yourself working for a bully - Beatus Magistra Chapter 29: Pregnant and screwed - Hannah Dalton and Kiran Mahil Chapter 30: Dealing with the motherhood penalty as a leader - Naomi Shenton Chapter 31: Time to say goodbye - Bukky Yusuf Chapter 32: Inspiring the future - Vivienne Porritt