Principal Consultant
Deborah Eyre is an Education Consultant, Professor of Education at the University of Warwick and, former Director of the government’s National Academy for Gifted and Talented Youth. She has held a variety of senior leadership roles in education in the University, Local Authority and school sectors but is best known for her expertise in the education of gifted and talented pupils. Currently, a Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the University of Oxford and Advisory Professor to the Hong Kong Institute of Education she works on models for the development of high performance at both institutional and individual levels.
A alumnus of the Windsor Leadership Trust, her leadership experiences have been primarily around innovation and change. She has set up of an organisation – taking it from initial concept through to maturity and recognised success, seen through an HE sector merger and led sector change in Local Authorities and schools.
Deborah serves on the Board of the UK Teacher Development Agency (TDA) and is their representative on the Board of The National College for School Leadership (NCSL). She is Vice President of the WCGTC (World Council for Gifted and Talented Children), an Advisory Board Member of the Centre for Talented Youth, Johns’ Hopkins’ University, Baltimore, USA, Non-Executive Director of the Inspiring Futures Foundation, Governor of CTC Kingshurst Academy, Birmingham and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
