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School business leadership (not management)

Debbie Beazer discusses her path to becoming a school business leader and the changing role of this vital position within the school team

To anyone looking in from the outside, my career as a school business professional may look quite straightforward. I started out as an administrator at South Gloucestershire’s Blackhorse Primary School in 2001. As my responsibilities grew, in 2010 I trained as a school business manager through the National College for School Leadership.

Then, in April 2017, I re-evaluated my role against the National Association of School Business Management (the NASBM has since become the Institute of School Business Leadership – ISBL) professional standards and was promoted to school business leader. But of course, that’s just the short version. So how did I really get here?

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