ECIS Women in Education: Building Resilience and a Pioneering Spirit

ECIS SIG Webinar Women in Education - Leading Change in International Education: Building Resilience and a Pioneering Spirit

Speaker: Lesley Meyer, Chief Education Officer at Education in Motion (EiM)
Facilitated by: Pauline O’Brien

This session empowers women educators to lead transformative change. Through storytelling, core change management principles, and interactive discussions, participants will explore strategies for overcoming challenges unique to women leaders while engaging stakeholders and fostering inclusive leadership in an international school setting. Attendees will leave with practical tools to champion change in their schools and communities.

Lesley Meyer is the Chief Education Officer of EiM. She is originally from Scotland, UK, and graduated from the University of Edinburgh with a degree in English and History. She completed a PGCE before taking up posts in schools in the UK, Germany, Belgium and Switzerland. She has had experience teaching A levels, the European Baccalaureate, the IB Diploma Programme, as well as in the Early Years and Elementary School. Her vast experience prepared her well to take her UK headship qualification (NPQH) and to work as a Head of School.

During her extensive career, Lesley has worked for the UK government and the EU in recruitment and in policy groups, specialising in the areas of bilingual education, EAL, special needs and the integration of technology. She was a founding member of the International Task Force on Child Protection and has delivered training to teachers in a number of schools. Lesley takes seriously her commitment to the international school community and is a team leader for school accreditation for the Council for International Schools.