Edufuturists

Joining us again on the podcast today is Jamie Smith, who is joint with Paddy McGrath as our most capped guest. Jamie is a good friend of the Edufuturists and spoke at our Summit in July this year. Jamie is Executive Chairman at C-Learning as well as a serial investor and entrepreneur.

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Joining us on the podcast today is Drew Povey. At the age of 32 Drew became one of the youngest ever headteachers in the UK, when he became the head at Harrop Fold School in Salford. In 2017, Harrop Fold School became the focus of the Channel 4 TV show ‘Educating Manchester’, which documented the day to day life of the school.

Joining us on the podcast is Professor Damian Hughes. Damian is a world-renowned keynote speaker who combines his practical and academic background within sport, organisation and change psychology to work as a trusted adviser to the business, education and sporting elite, specialising in the creation of high performing cultures. He has delivered training to and advised the whose who of business, education and sport, working with the likes of Sale Sharks, Warrington Wolves, West Bromwich Albion and the Great Britain Rugby League team.

Joining us today is Patrick McGrath. Paddy is a great friend of the Edufuturists podcast, and has now appeared on more episodes than any other guest. As well as joining us on the show Paddy also led a workshop at the Edufuturists summit this summer and presented one of our awards on behalf of texthelp, the organisation he works for.

We are joined on the podcast today by Zaitoon Bukhari, who works not far away from me at Witton Park Academy in Blackburn. Zaitoon went to the University of Huddersfield and specialised in Human Biology before going on and completing her teacher training at Bradford College.

Martin Boehm is a marketing professor at IE Business School in Madrid. For the last decade, he has been researching and consulting in the area of customer management. What really interests Professor Boehm from a marketing standpoint is the management of customer relationships in order to increase a firm’s long-term profitability.

Lindsay is a passionate education visionary with vast experience assisting others in adapting to, and thriving in, technology-rich classroom environments. After graduating from the University of Stellenbosch with a BA in Geography and Environmental Studies, Anthropology and Xhosa, she completed her Post Graduate Certificate in Education through the University of South Africa.

Steve, Ben and Dan discuss Google Slides as an educational tool. This is a practical guide to the tool, with some of the classic features and new updates.