Michael Buchanan

Mike Buchanan is the Founder of Positively Leading, a bespoke coaching, mentoring and support consultancy focused on understanding, fulfilment and performance. He has been training, coaching leaders for more than a decade as well as acting as a reviewer, improvement partner and leadership development specialist.

Mike’s interests and experiences are in organisational culture and climate, coaching for improved performance, leadership, character development and the use of positive psychology to promote well-being.

He is Executive Consultant to the world’s leading academy for elite skiers - Apex2100 - and was most recently the Executive Director of HMC, the English-speaking world’s oldest association of Head Teachers. As Head of Ashford School in the UK, part of United Learning, he oversaw its transformation from a small girls’ school to a thriving, profitable, all-age, co-educational day/boarding, independent school of over 1,000 children and young people.

Mike has experience in leadership and education. He helped to establish three state-funded schools in London and Kent. He is or has been a trustee of several independent and state schools in the UK and internationally, a trustee of a children’s charity, a Reporting Inspector, a UK National Leader of Education and a qualified Executive Coach. He is a Founding Fellow of the Chartered College of Teaching, Chair of the International Positive Education Network (UKEurope), an accredited senior associate of the AoEA and a consultant with LSC Education. Born and partially educated in Australia, he fell in love with an Englishwoman but regularly returns to God's own country.

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