ROSEMARY CAMPBELL-STEPHENS

Rosemary Campbell-Stephens is an education and leadership consultant based in the UK. Her educational career spans twenty-five years in which time she has experienced the numerous changes in education from a variety of perspectives.

Prior to her current role as an education consultant and leadership trainer, she was the Head teacher of a Secondary school. This followed a decade of local authority work in the Midlands and in London as a Secondary School Adviser for Institutional Review and Development and Race Equality. Rosemary is also an experienced OFSTED Inspector. During the 1980s Rosemary co-ran an African Caribbean supplementary (Saturday) school for 10 years in the Lozells area of Birmingham, at its height this school had approx 250 African-Caribbean descent children attending.

Rosemary was one of the British government’s consultant advisors employed by their Department For Education & Skills (DfES) to implement the Aiming High strategy, a national initiative to raise the academic attainment of African Caribbean pupils in secondary schools. There were 30 schools in this pilot that ran from 2003-2005 and was the first of its kind in Britain.

Rosemary is currently consultant at the University of London, Institute of Education where she has developed a groundbreaking leadership programme for aspiring Black and global majority senior managers in London secondary schools. The Investing in Diversity leadership programme, which is accredited by the University of London, currently has 400 teachers who are either on the programme or have completed the course. The aim of the course is to get more Black teachers into senior leadership positions in London schools, but to go beyond that by creating new leadership paradigms for the urban context that reflect the cultures of those Black leaders that the system says it needs. Assimilation to the point of oblivion is not an option, particularly in our cosmopolitan urban areas.

Rosemary is a well-respected consultant trainer, national and international keynote speaker on issues of diversity, equality, inclusion and culturally literate leadership.