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Welcome to Good Gift Coaching and education Services! 

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My name is Maureen Brettell, BSc (Hons), PGCE, NPQH, FCCT. Specialist Leader in Behaviour and Attendance. I am an experienced school leader and coach.

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After leaving University, I began my professional career  as a Town Planner in NW England. In 1995 I followed my passion and my vocation to work with young people and re-trained to become a secondary school teacher.

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I am an Inclusion specialist, having spent 21 years of headship leading in Specialist Schools and provisions which work with young people with social emotional and mental health needs, often manifesting as challenging behaviour. I have been President of the National Organisation for Pupil Referral Units and Alternative Provisions (PRUsAP). My work with PRUsAP afforded me the honour of presenting to the House of Lords’ Select Committees around the impact of exclusions on children and young people.

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As a headteacherI have successfully led a number of schools through periods of challenge and change, including successfully leading schools placed in special measures prior to my arrival. This has given me a wealth of experience and expertise not just in an education context, but also in transferrable leadership skills.

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My focus is on fostering collaboration, driving impactful results, and instilling unwavering confidence and clarity in leadership roles. My work with clients centres on overcoming imposter syndrome, team-building and establishing their leadership purpose. I empower leaders to adeptly navigate challenges, ensuring they lead with decisiveness and assurance, propelling both their teams and organisations towards success.

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I recognise how central a sense of belonging is in having the confidence to lead, and as such I have a keen desire to use coaching as a means of helping to create spaces at the leadership table for those faces and voices which have not historically been represented for a variety of reasons, be that through race, ethnicity, gender, religious beliefs, sexuality, disability etc; in short, I work with and for those of us whose career path has often been accompanied with the sense of being ‘ The Only One’ or ‘The Other One’ .

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When I am not coaching or training, I am invariably found at the gym or volunteering at my local parkrun.

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