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Gill is an Educational, Child and Family Psychologist. She specialises in Behaviour, Relationships and Emotional Wellbeing. She is a highly experienced trainer, workshop leader and conference speaker. Gill has also been a primary school teacher in an inner city local authority.

Gill’s skills and career highlights include:

• Developing inclusive policy and practice within schools and children’s services organisations across the UK.
• Providing consultancy, review and development work with leadership teams within children’s services, schools and early years settings.
• Working at assistant director level within a local authority; leading on developing social inclusion and emotional wellbeing for children and young people.
• Managing an educational psychology service within a local authority.
• Leading a behaviour support service.
• Being a senior adviser with the Department for Education’s national strategies for school improvement and leading on developing inclusive practice and improving behaviour and attendance across England.
• Providing the full range of educational psychology services for children in Early Years’ settings, schools and colleges for over two decades.
• Pioneering the Circle of Friends inclusive approach within schools across the UK.
• Providing mediation services as an accredited mediator for professionals and families.

'I have been a teacher in Surrey for over 20 years, in five different schools across the county. I have been a Headteacher, holding positions of responsibility for Maths, ICT and NQT mentoring along the way. Throughout my career, I always endeavoured to develop a team, to nurture an individual teacher’s career, to protect the wellbeing of children and staff. The Resilience Project is a natural progression to these aims.

Dr Anthea Rose is an experienced social science cross-discipline researcher with a particular focus on qualitative methodology. All of her research has been framed within education and social policy.

Anthea is currently working on a project looking at school governance. At Loughborough she worked on a range of projects for the schools of Business and Civil and Building Engineering. She has been working on the EU funded 4-year project Gendertime looking at inequality in STEM subjects and also worked on a scoping project looking at informal knowledge exchange between business students.

Prior to this some of the research Anthea has worked on include developing a resource for small universities to help them internationalise their curriculum; rural renewable and social perceptions with a sister project in India and evaluating the delivery of faith-based projects in community settings.

Steve Waters taught English and Drama for 30 years, including as a Head of English and Assistant Headteacher, before working for two local authorities as a member of a school improvement team. He has been freelance since 2011, delivering training in English, Literacy, Leadership and Management. Steve founded the Teach Well Alliance in 2017 to support the mental health and wellbeing of staff in schools and specialises in teacher Burnout. He is an online tutor and assessor for the NPQSL and holds the NPQH. Steve is a qualified counsellor and Mental Health First Aider. He is co-author of 'Doing Your Research Project' which was published in its 7th edition by Open University Press in 2018. He has four children and lives in Manchester. He tweets @teachwellall

Sarah Stones is a Motivation Specialist, passionate about helping everyone to shine. She combines her knowledge of intrinsic motivation and positive psychology with a practical, solutions focussed approach. Sarah delivers 1-1 coaching and fun, interactive CPD sessions on understanding motivation. Sarah works with teachers, pupils and their parents/guardians to develop their understanding of intrinsic motivation and to use that knowledge to maintain and improve their own motivation, engagement and wellbeing and understand how to use that knowledge to support other staff, colleagues and friends. Sarah supports organisations, enabling them to recruit, manage and retain motivated and engaged staff.

Justin is a communication professional with over 20 years of experience helping organisations to communicate and engage their employees. In 2014, along with Karen Dempster, he set up Fit2Communicate to make a difference to education through communication. Justin and Karen saw an absolute need to reduce stress and misunderstanding in schools caused by inadequate communication practices. Their book, in which they describe their unique school communication philosophy, was published in 2017, and is called "How to build communication success in your school". Justin and Karen now work directly with schools to help them to improve how they communicate.

Steve Judge was involved in a car crash in Sheffield in 2002 which resulted in a partial amputation of his right leg below the knee and ligament damage to his left knee. As a keen marathon and 10k runner, it would have been understandable if Steve had concluded that his running days were over. However, he was determined that he would overcome his injuries and became a paratriathlete. He now tells the story of how he motivated himself all over the UK, including to schools and businesses. His keynote presentations and workshops are adapted to the audience, raising aspirations, improving motivation and including emotional and personal PSHCE education suitable for young people of various ages and backgrounds. His performance covers many ‘keystage’ areas and also be used in ‘Enterprise’ days for staff CPD training.