Dr Anne Hollinshead, an international expert on special education needs, inclusive educational practice and course development
Professional Objectives
Dr. Anne has been involved in developing networks and highly successful national training in a number of countries in Africa, Asia, and South East Asia.
She believes in promoting local ownership of all events and materials via a ‘train the trainers’ approach and is keen to work with the extensive pool of experts that exists within the countries / communities she works, to ensure that any training is culturally relevant and reflects global best practice, and not simply the imposition of a particular set of western values with little awareness of real-life experiences or operations in country. She believes that this ‘train the trainer’ model will ensure the long -term sustainability of any training.
Wherever possible she works to develop both vertical and horizontal progression pathways of training; providing systematic training and resources for practitioners to provide transformative, sustainable, appropriate, effective and quality-assured pedagogically inclusive education and training.
Dr Hollinshead’s key strengths have been recognized as capability in developing programmes and materials and delivering interactive training. She has considerable experience of materials and resource design. She has developed multi-phase training (online and face-face) relating to inclusive practice, SEN and Disability issues; developed training programmes and resources for teachers to facilitate improved pedagogic practice and support early identification and intervention; healthcare training; and developed international foundation degrees.
She is a retired senior academic who now works as an international consultant, and can draw on the expertise of team of academics who have been drawn from a variety of professional backgrounds including Speech Therapy, Conductive Education and Health and are well-placed to develop training materials for teachers, non-teachers and school leaders that will promote the expansion of their skills. Dr Hollinshead has extensive and demonstrable knowledge and expertise in the day-to-day challenges faced by children and young people with special needs and disabilities and their parents/carers in accessing services. The principles of sustainability and capacity building are at the heart of all of her projects.
- To always work ethically, in ways which are both sustainable and build capacity
- To work in a dynamically and to create opportunities to develop processes and controls for the effective development of national and international learning products.
- To continue to identify key stakeholders, understand their needs and engage them in relevant activities.
- To develop teams of people in national and international contexts who are able to respond to global challenges in the fields of inclusive practice, health and education
Professional Skills
- Tactical thinker with proven ability to plan and provide strategic direction to inform innovative, targeted and tactical campaigns
- Experience of policy, strategy and operational delivery of national and international activities.
- Experienced Project Manager
- Structured, planned and analytical approach to problem solving
- Agile & adaptive thinking and skills
- Demonstrable people management skills including Change Management and the ability to motivate staff
- Experience of managing and controlling a budget, together with a clear understanding of financial management procedures and long-term business planning.
- Excellent interpersonal skills including the ability to lead, negotiate, persuade, influence and to maintain large networks of people, both nationally and internationally
- Committed to a team management approach which fosters values based on diversity, inclusivity, well-being and positive engagement.
- Awareness and understanding of the activities, objectives and direction of the public private and charitable sectors.
- Experienced at producing and presenting reports, position papers and business-cases.
- Experienced at proactively engaging with international networks, and identifying appropriate benchmarks against which to measure performance.
- Established capacity for strategic thinking and planning; which I have been able to translate into partnership and business development opportunities in countries such as Myanmar, UAE, Kenya amongst others.
- Possessing highly developed skills in decision-making, persuasion, influencing and negotiation.
- An excellent communicator, able to articulate ideas and vision effectively, persuasively and where necessary diplomatically, together with a long-established and tested ethical values-base based on commitment to celebrating diversity, equal opportunities, and anti-discriminatory practice and inclusion