Unity Day 2025: Full Schedule

9:30am BST

Emma Kell FILLING

Friday June 27, 2025 9:30am - 10:25am BST

Emma Kell is a leading authority on teacher well-being, resilience, and leadership, dedicated to helping schools and organizations create sustainable and thriving workplaces. With 26 years of experience as a teacher and leader in UK schools, Emma understands the real challenges educators face—from burnout and stress to staff retention and stakeholder engagement.

Through her work with Those That Can Ltd, she delivers research-backed, practical keynotes that empower educators and leaders with strategies to enhance well-being, improve effectiveness, and boost retention.

Emma is a bestselling author, with influential books such as How to Survive in Teaching and A Little Guide for Teachers: Wellbeing and Self-Care. She has also completed a doctorate on teacher well-being and parenting, bringing deep academic insight to her talks.
As a TEDx speaker, BBC contributor, and writer for TES, she is recognised as a thought leader shaping the conversation around education and workforce resilience. Her engaging, evidence-based keynotes provide actionable solutions that resonate with educators, school leaders, policymakers, and corporate teams.

Speakers

Those That Can

External Contributor

Friday June 27, 2025 9:30am - 10:25am BST
Main Hall Ground Floor TGS

** Keynote **, All staff

10:35am BST

Emma Kell LIMITED

Friday June 27, 2025 10:35am - 11:30am BST

Main Hall

Speakers

Those That Can

External Contributor

Friday June 27, 2025 10:35am - 11:30am BST
Main Hall Ground Floor TGS

** Keynote **, All staff

11:40am BST

Amjad Ali LIMITED

Friday June 27, 2025 11:40am - 12:35pm BST

Main Hall

Amjad Ali is (@TeachLeadAAli)
Amjad is the co-founder of the charity The BAMEed Network- #BAMEed a grass-roots movement aimed at ensuring our diverse communities are represented as a substantive part of the education workforce for teachers and leaders in education.
Amjad is a teacher, trainer, TEDx speaker and Senior Leader. He currently works four days a week in a start-up secondary school and offers CPD/INSET on his other day. Amjad has spent his teaching career working in challenging, diverse schools. He is a qualified SENDCO and was also trained as an Advanced Skills Teacher in Teaching and Learning. Before stepping into the world of education, he spent time as Play Worker and Teaching Assistant in Young Offender Prisons.
Amjad has delivered CPD to all sectors in education from Early Careers teachers to Executive/Head Teachers and CEOs, delivering on a range of topics, all across the United Kingdom and different parts of the world. He has worked with over 250 schools and 1000s of students.
Amjad is ambitious and committed to making a difference to the education system. He is at 'the chalk-face' teacher, who shares 'what works' in an engaging and easy to understand format. Amjad also writes a reflective blog entitled NewToThePost where he discusses many elements of his leadership and experience.
For Amjad, education is about ensuring wherever you come from, whatever your parents do or not do, does not impact on a students' potential of success. Whatever success means to that young person, it should be found and celebrated.
Amjad has previously co-organised some of the country’s largest teachmeets such as #TMOxford and #TMLondon.

Speakers

Try This Teaching

External Contributor

Amjad Ali (@TeachLeadAAli) is a teacher, trainer, TEDx speaker and Senior Leader. He currently works four days a week in a start up secondary school and offers CPD/INSET on his other day. Amjad has spent his teaching career working in challenging, diverse schools. He is a qualified SENDCO and was also trai... Read More →

Friday June 27, 2025 11:40am - 12:35pm BST
Main Hall Ground Floor TGS

** Keynote **, All staff

12:45pm BST

Andrew Moffat LIMITED

Friday June 27, 2025 12:45pm - 1:40pm BST

Main Hall

No Outsiders – “All different, All welcome” – Andrew Moffat MBE
Preparing children for life in modern Britain by building stronger communities.

Andrew Moffat MBE is a British teacher at Parkfield Community School in Birmingham, and the author of several books and educational resources, including the No Outsiders programme, an approach to teaching primary school-aged children about diversity and tolerance, for which he was nominated for the Global Teacher Prize. His programme has attracted protests on religious grounds, and was briefly halted in 2019, before being reinstated. Andrew was awarded an MBE in 2017 for services to equality in education. Andrew and his company No Outsiders, believe in inclusive education, promoting community cohesion to prepare young people and adults for life as global citizen’s.

Speakers

Andrew Moffat

No Outsiders

Andrew Moffat MBE is a teacher at Highters Heath School in Birmingham, and the author of several books and educational resources, including the No Outsiders programme, an approach to teaching primary school-aged children about diversity, for which he was a named as a top 10 finalist... Read More →

Friday June 27, 2025 12:45pm - 1:40pm BST
Main Hall Ground Floor TGS

** Keynote **, All staff