Governance for MAT executive leaders: working with your trust board - Autumn 2025

Training & development

18/03/2025

Date and time tbc - Autumn term

Zoom

Time

Date and time tbc - Autumn term

Location

Zoom

These new sessions covering essential areas, provide the opportunity for new and experienced MAT CEOs, COOs and other executive leaders to help build stronger and more reliable governance in their trusts.

At a glance

The new 90-minute online sessions will cover the following areas:

Building a successful relationship with your board and chair
Working together to develop the strategy
Meeting accountabilities and providing assurance
Making local governance work for your trust
Efficient and effective reporting for you and your board
Making the most of meetings

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Who is this suitable for?

New and experienced MAT CEOs and COOs
Other MAT executive leaders

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What are the benefits?

These sessions will equip you to play your part in governance well, focusing on your role and key areas of the relationship between the board and senior executive leaders. Covering current themes, common challenges and realistic expectations, they explore how the executive team can contribute to establishing good governance practice using tried and tested approaches.

They will help you to make the most of the support and challenge available from effective governance, achieving strong outcomes for pupils, a sustainable organisation and a healthy culture.

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How will you learn?

For the convenience of busy executive leaders, these 90-minute standalone sessions focus on the essentials and are delivered online at the end of the school day

They will be facilitated by a quality-assured NGA consultant with relevant governance expertise of senior leadership within MATs and in MAT governance
The sessions will be interactive with a mixture of participant activities and facilitator-led explanation and discussion
They will be supported with session materials including a resource toolkit to help with next steps
The sessions will also identify opportunities for further professional development for those governing through other NGA training and services, including the Leading Governance Development Programmes for MAT trustees, MAT board chairs and MAT local governing body chairs.