The Ted Wragg Trust prioritises leadership development across its schools. Senior leader Caroline Sherwood describes the MAT’s eight leadership habits and how these can be encouraged


The Ted Wragg Trust was established in 2010 with the aim of creating an outstanding educational experience for all of Exeter’s children, no matter their background. An important component required to realise this ambition is developing strong leadership habits within every leader across the MAT. Across the trust, we encourage eight of these habits...


Brave leadership is making right decisions, not popular ones. It is taking the right action, not the most expedient. It is being driven by, and dedicated to, fierce values.

In Brave Leadership: Seven hallmarks of truly courageous leaders (2018), Margie Warrell states that “brave leaders are bold visionaries”.

She continues: “While they may have to manage in the realm of probabilities, they lead from the space of possibilities – knowing that we fail more from timidity than over daring.”

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