This workshop is for Senior Leaders, Career Leaders and Colleagues working in Schools and Colleges.
With so many changes affecting careers provision, this session will give career leaders practical support and reassurance.
You’ll leave with useful strategies to manage change, stay positive under pressure, and feel more confident about what’s ahead.
Meet your facilitator
Nicola Hall
Nicola Hall is Director of Education at The Careers & Enterprise Company, where she leads national strategy for careers education, work experience and learner progression across England. A former Headteacher of two secondary schools, including the founding Principal of a pioneering employer-led Studio School, Nicola has spent more than two decades developing education systems that connect young people to meaningful futures.
In 2026, Nicola was awarded a Churchill Fellowship to study how Australia and Canada design work-connected learning, progression pathways and transitions from education into employment. Her Fellowship has informed a growing body of work exploring how England could modernise work experience and consider how purposeful progression better connects curriculum, technical education, employers and place-based partnerships.
An international speaker on careers education and work experience reform, Nicola is recognised for bringing together policy, research and practical system leadership to develop ambitious, evidence-informed reforms that improve equity and strengthen learner agency.
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