Andrew Whitaker
Deputy CEO - Teaching & Learning, Luminate Education Group and CEO of the White Rose Academies Trust @Luminate Education Group
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WORK HISTORY
Deputy CEO - Teaching & Learning, Luminate Education Group and CEO of the White Rose Academies Trust @Luminate Education Group
Leeds, GB
Executive leadership responsibility for the teaching and learning strategy, Luminate Education Group.Executive leadership responsibility for the communication and branding strategy, Luminate Education Group.Member of the Executive Leadership Team, Luminate Education Group.Chief Executive Officer and Accounting Officer, the White Rose Academies Trust. Member of the Trust Board of Directors/Trustees.
EDUCATION
National College of School Leadership (NCSL), Nottingham UK
Advanced Diploma in School Business Management (ADSBM), School Leadership
Leeds Business School, UK
BA Business Management, Business Management
National Association of School Business Managers (NASBM)
Fellowship Award - FNASBM
The Winston Churchill Memorial Trust
Churchill Fellow 2018
National College of School Leadership (NCSL), Nottingham UK
Certificate in School Business Management (CSBM), School Business Management
National College of School Leadership (NCSL), Nottingham, UK
National Professional Qualification for Headship (NPQH), School Headship and Senior Leadership
Leeds Business School, UK
ACCA Graduate Diploma in Financial Management (DipFM), Accountancy, Strategic Financial Management
Leeds Business School, UK
MSc Business Technology, Business, Technology, E-Marketing
SKILLS
ABOUT ANDREW WHITAKER
Churchill Fellow 2018 (life time award)Experienced Executive Leader-Last fifteen years, worked as -Executive Leadership Team. Luminate Education Group (current role).Chief Executive Officer/Accounting Officer. The White Rose Academies Trust, Leeds, UK (current role).Director and Board Member. The White Rose Academies Trust.All secondary phase schools in the Trust featured in the 2018 - Parliamentary Review - Secondary Edition. The trust has recently welcomed its first Primary School, Mill Field Primary Academy in Leeds. Mill Field officially joined the trust on the 1st December 2020.Headteacher. Todmorden High School. Led the school from the bottom 5% of performing schools, to the top 15% of performing schools nationally. Led the school to it\'s first Good OFSTED judgement in the school\'s history. The school was featured in the 2015 - Parliamentary Review - Secondary Edition.Non-Executive roles-Board Member - Leeds Learning Alliance (LLA). Current non-exec role.Director. Incredible Edible Todmorden (Jan 13 - to August 2016). Member of Executive Board, with responsibility for strategy and vision.Member of the Trinity Teaching School Alliance Strategic Board (September 2015 - August 2016).The NASBM (now ISBL). Trustee and Director, ended in 2010.Associate Expert -The Ten Group. Advising Governing Bodies and Senior Leadership Teams on Strategic, Operational and Leadership issues (on-going).Major Projects undertaken in last 15 years-Project Managed £20m BSF Build Programme (Completed in July 2013). Project Managed £200k refurbishment of a residential property owned by the School. Developed a fundraising programme that raised £75k annually, over an 8 year period for a special school. Developed and launched Greenacre Business Services (GBS)- a school/college business management consultancy. This consultancy supported 12 Barnsley and 2 Doncaster Schools with their School Business Management provisions.Additional-Fellow of the ISBLChurchill Fellow 2018
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