10 – 12 November 2026
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Dubai World Trade Centre Sheikh Saeed Halls 1, 2 & 3
Dr Helen Wright
Director - Global Thought Leadership
Dr Helen Wright is a highly regarded global leader with an energetic career spanning 3 decades in UK and international education. She led schools and held national and international roles in education in the UK and Australia for over 13 years until 2014, before embarking on an independent portfolio career in leadership recruitment, executive coaching and governance advisory. As a highly regarded International Education Advisor, with a warm yet determinedly incisive style, she challenges and coaches educational and other leaders globally to think and act ambitiously. She holds several Board Director roles, and she recruits international school leaders as an Associate of LSC Education. She currently works with schools, leaders and companies in countries including the UAE, China, India, the Netherlands and the UK.
Speaker Sessions
Workshop Space
1627
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Panel Session: Citizens School Parents Projects
Session Summary:
The panel will highlight the level of parental involvement at Citizens and how parents are co-building the school. There are several points in these sessions including;
Why learning oracy skills is as important for school leaders as it is for students
Session Summary:
In this session, Dr Helen Wright will draw on her experience working with senior and middle leaders in schools across the world, to explore why school leaders at every level benefit from focusing on their own oracy skills. She will explain how research into our unconscious biases makes the case for adults to develop their oracy skills, and will share insights, based on psychometric processes, that demonstrate how school leaders can learn to communicate more effectively with one another.
