Key Voices #142 - The role of trusts as talent architects with Mandy Coalter

This week we talk to Mandy Coalter, Founder of Talent Architects about her recent paper on the role trusts can play in making schools great places to work. She also explains how policymakers should consider trusts more when making policy that impacts the education workforce. Mandy also talks about how schools and trusts are broadening their understanding of what can be achieved for pupils when you take a strategic approach to recruiting, retaining and developing your people.    We talk about:  Mandy’s career and why she founded Talent Architects  How trusts can create additional capacity for school improvement The role policymakers can have in shaping the sector and how they need people with education expertise to help them make the best policy  The vital role trust and school leaders play in shaping the culture in their own schools and trusts, and building their employer brand  The need for more joined-up thinking  in education policy so improvements in one area are not cancelled out by changes in another The changing role of HR professionals and how transformative they can be when they work right at the heart of an organisation  Why education can be slower to change employment practice than other industries  Practical ways to become an employer of choice  HR issues on the horizon for trust leaders and how to balance day to day issues with longer term strategic plans    You can read Mandy’s original paper for the Confederation of School Trusts here.