Break Through The Boardroom | Helping headteachers turn stressful boards into strategic partners

Are you a headteacher? Is your governing board draining your energy instead of driving your school forward?

You became a headteacher to lead, inspire and make a difference - not to spend your evenings untangling governance politics, battling with a board that's not strategic, or dreading the next meeting. When your relationship with your governors isn’t working, it affects everything.

Are you tired of it all?

There’s a particular kind of tired that comes from leading a school and managing a governing board that can sometimes feel like its own full-time job.

I know it often feels like you’re simply surviving: moving from one urgent demand to the next, squeezing leadership into the gaps between emails, safeguarding and the unexpected drama of the day. I know how draining it can be to lead with integrity in a system that keeps moving the goalposts, reshaping itself, and pushing you into impossible corners. I know that feeling of pushing through, one meeting at a time, hoping the next agenda will feel lighter, the next conversation will feel easier, the next set of governors will finally understand what you need...

And yet, you keep going - because you care - about your school, your children, your staff and your community. But there’s a whisper underneath it all. A quiet question about whether this is the way working with your board should feel. Whether it’s possible for your board to actually be strategic. Whether the constant pressure and second-guessing are signs of something that needs to shift.

I'm Rebecca, and I founded Break Through The Boardroom because you deserve a board that understands you, supports you and challenges you in ways that help you grow - not grind you down.

Break Through The Boardroom helps headteachers turn stressful boards into strategic partners, so that you can lead with confidence and focus on what really matters.

Here’s how I can help

Want the breakthrough that will transform your board-head relationship and strengthen school leadership?

Work with me

Want to inspire your trust, leadership team or governing board to think differently about governance?

Book me as a speaker

Want to learn how to make your boardroom simple, strategic and effective - without the jargon?

Is Break Through The Boardroom right for you?

Are you fed up with managing governors who believe they’re 'strategic' but feel anything but?

Is your relationship with your board leaving you more tired, stretched and overwhelmed than you’d like to admit?

Do you ever wonder why no amount of training, guidance or polite nudging seems to make anything shift? Do you want simple strategies to fix this that work in real life?

You are not failing. You are not crazy. And you are definitely not the only headteacher feeling this way.

I get it, and I can help.

Let's Talk

Chris, Headteacher

On paper, our board looked strong, but when it came to actually governing, I was struggling to get things to work. Rebecca quickly got to the heart of the issue and helped us turn things around.

Claire, Headteacher

I went from dreading every meeting to finally feeling heard and respected. The meetings are now like a sanctuary where I can think strategically, I actually look forward to them. You literally changed everything, thank you.

Katie, Chair

Before working with Rebecca I was struggling with relationships with my team. I felt frustrated and unsure how to work with people who had such different backgrounds to me. I've found strategies that have transformed how we work together and built a positive rapport and working relationships.