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Andy Vass

Communication skills - Resourcefulness - Self-belief

When it comes to getting the best out of yourself and your team as a school leader, there is a great deal of advice out there. The problem is that a lot of it is rubbish. And what isn’t rubbish is often complicated and time consuming.

Which is where Andy Vass comes in handy.

With calm authority, gentle humour and a pragmatic wisdom born out of years working in schools as a teacher and leader and with schools all around the world, Andy helps educators reach that all-elusive goal – becoming the best version of themselves.

For Andy, the secret is all about the dialogues we have – both with ourselves as well as with others.

Drawing on best practice when it comes to effective coaching conversations, Andy shows how professionals can have honest, authentic and productive dialogues, even about the most challenging of topics. Where language can so often lead to confrontation or disconnect, Andy demonstrates there is another way, one that leads to curiosity, validation and connection.

When conversations are handled well – whether between leaders and their teams, among peers, or between teachers and students to create calmer classrooms – the outcomes can be consistently better for everyone involved.

"When things are as good as they can possibly become, what will you be doing differently?"

Andy Vass

Recent titles include:

  • Building the Capacity to Lead
  • Sanity in the Classroom
  • Coaching Unplugged

When it comes to dealing with the inner voices we all have (“I don’t,” you say to yourself), Andy helps educators take control and use their internal narratives far more productively.

In this way, he demonstrates how we can deal with stress, learn to focus our attention positively, use our powers of imagination to support, not fight, us, and understand the limitations of ‘reflective practice’ when it comes to making positive changes.

After all, you can’t move forwards by looking backwards.

All of it delivered with Andy’s inimitable wit, genuine warmth and a quiet authenticity.

Whether you're looking for someone to help show your school the power of embracing a coaching culture, an entertaining and inspiring speaker for an INSET day on how to have better conversations to create calmer classrooms or someone to show how well-being and dealing with stress starts with how you speak to yourself, we thoroughly recommend Andy Vass.

And the 80,000 teachers in 25 countries Andy has worked with over the years would tend to agree with us.

Amazing! Andy is a guru in the field of coaching. He always had helpful suggestions to any question and provided us with a huge amount of knowledge

I have just witnessed complete mastery of the coaching process over four days. Andy is awesome and inspiring and totally authentic

Andy’s presentation and style is inspirational – makes me want to put it all into practice right away

Superb presentation – totally relevant and tremendously thought provoking. Excellent group activities and feeling of
involvement

All great thinkers render the complex simple, the unachievable doable and the out of reach attainable. That is Andy’s gift to us as a coach and trainer

This is quite likely a transformative experience that will take my sessions to a different level with much quicker and more effective outcomes

This programme was intellectually stimulating and deeply practical too

Andy is genuinely expert in his field and has a talent for teaching a complicated programme in a simple and understandable way

Andy was outstanding. His skills and knowledge have clearly been developed over many years. He authentically practices what he preaches

This was one of the best seminars I have ever attended. I appreciate now how to talk to students in a way that positively influences their behaviour and our relationship

Andy Vass In His Own Words

"Our capacity to lead ourselves and others is enriched by narratives that nourish us"

Coaching in Schools Pocketbook

Resources by Andy Vass

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