Interim Leadership and Management

The leading provider of specialist interim and management solutions to the post-16 sector.

We have the most comprehensive network of professionals to support our clients with their leadership challenges and opportunities.
We provide high-quality, flexible interim solutions at middle and senior leadership levels and ensure that interims hit the ground running, immediately impacting your organisation while adding significant value.

Our service offering is unique because we have a well-established, employed consultant base complemented by an extensive network of associates that can respond quickly to meet your needs. When you engage an SFA-employed consultant, there are no additional IR35 costs to be met.

We provide interim leaders and managers for the widest range of roles including:

  • CEO/Principal
  • Deputy/Vice Principal
  • CFO/Finance Director
  • HR Director/Manager
  • MIS/IT Director
  • Director of Curriculum and Quality
  • Head of Department
Sixth Form Associates

Martin Silverwood – Principal – Coulsdon Sixth Form College

“Nigel joined the campus in August to initially provide some management resilience as we needed to implement change at pace to improve the quality of teaching & learning under a leadership team. His immediate impact was seen as Nigel met the challenge head-on to bring in new members of staff as well as develop established staff members to become experts in their pedagogical practices. He helped establish a cultural shift, building new processes and new ways of working, all to benefit our students. He was able to quickly build positive relationships with all key stakeholders and helped raise aspirations with the campus, which is now projecting significantly higher achievements, having much higher levels of student satisfaction and greater links to employers. Nigel has shown himself to be an inspirational leader and we wish him every success in the future.”

Connect With us 

Contact our Operations Director, Judith Richardson, today to discuss your interim requirements.

Judith Richardson

Judith Richardson

Director of Interim Appointments

  • Integrity
  • Client Focus
  • Diversity
  • Talent Excellence
  • Integrity
  • Client Focus
  • Diversity
  • Talent Excellence

Our employed consultants bring extensive sixth form sector expertise and hands-on leadership experience, delivering rapid and effective support tailored to your organisation. Alongside our in-house team, our trusted network of associates enables us to respond quickly and flexibly to the evolving needs of sixth form and post-16 providers.

Sixth Form Associates

Richard Pleavin

Curriculum & Quality Consultant

Sixth Form Associates

Nigel Smalley

Curriculum & Quality Consultant

Sixth Form Associates

Dereck Rands

Curriculum & Quality Consultant

Sixth Form Associates

Christophe Baffos

Curriculum & Quality Consultant

Sixth Form Associates

Karen Humphreys

Curriculum & Quality Consultant

Sixth Form Associates

Donna Hollick

Curriculum & Quality Consultant

Rob Jones

Rob Jones

Curriculum & Quality Consultant

Sixth Form Associates

Ushma Patel

Finance Consultant

Sixth Form Associates

Stephen Wagstaff

Finance Consultant

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