Barbara has extensive experience in education and has held a number of
executive leadership positions across Australia within the education and
not-for-profit community sectors. An engaging facilitator, Barbara’s
national and international research, consultancy, high performance
coaching, and speaking engagements, centre on leadership development
that emphasises the impact of high-quality leadership on creating the
enabling environments for students to learn.
An author, Barbara’s most recent co-authored book Step In, Step Up: Empowering women for the school leadership journey, received a silver medal in the international 2020 IBPA Benjamin Franklin Awards.
Recognised for her contribution to educational leadership and professional learning, her national research report, Insights: Environmental Scan Principal Preparation Programs
contributed to five major national recommendations for preparing future
school leaders. This has informed her design and delivery of bespoke
emerging, principal and system leadership programs.
Barbara was the inaugural recipient of the Women of Achievement Award
(WA DoE), is an Honorary Fellow of the Melbourne Graduate School of
Education and is a National Fellow of the Australian Council for
Educational Leaders. Her expertise is regularly sought out to contribute
in an advisory capacity as a member of numerous university,
departmental, school, and professional boards.
She has a special interest in the links between leadership
sustainability, wellbeing, and impact on performance to ensure learning,
for all, can thrive.