Lee Wilson is Chief Executive Officer and National Leader of Education for Outwood Grange Academies Trust (OGAT).

Lee has a proven track record of school improvement. Prior to working with Outwood, he was the headteacher of a large Church of England (VC) primary school which moved from satisfactory to good under his leadership. He was the Head of a Children’s Centre which also secured good judgments in its 2013 OFSTED inspection.

Since joining the Trust, Lee has led the development of our primary model. The implementation of this has led to significant transformation of our primary academies. In April 2019, Outwood Primary Academy Ledger Lane moved from good to outstanding. Outwood Primary Academy Darfield has also received a judgement of good with outstanding leadership following the inspection which took place in November 2018.

Lee is an award winning teacher (National Teaching Awards) and has led a range of training on leadership, assessment and curriculum development at local, national and international level.

Julie Slater is the Chief Executive Principal, Secondary for Outwood Grange Academies Trust, and a National Leader of Education. She is responsible for all secondary academies within the Trust. Julie has a proven track record of leading an ‘Outstanding’ school as Principal at Outwood Grange Academy and has considerable experience of working in schools placed in Ofsted categories. One of these schools, under her leadership, moved from ‘Notice to Improve’ to ‘Good’ within 10 months and received outstanding judgements for Leadership and Management and Behaviour and Safety, and Outwood Primary Academy Kirkhamgate moved from ‘Special Measures’ to ‘Outstanding’ in 4 terms.

Julie has led many academy conversions in the primary and secondary sectors and she has experience of leadership in primary, secondary and post 16 institutions.

Julie was previously Chief Executive of Outwood Institute of Education (OIE). She is a lead facilitator and subject expert for NPQH, NPQSL and NPQML, was a member of the 2014 NCTL Fellowship Commission and is instrumental in driving forward the school led system through her work across OGAT. She has worked on numerous high profile national initiatives including the System Leaders Toolkit, Teaching School Council and delivers Women Into Leadership, a highly successful DfE funded programme.

She believes vehemently that all children have the right to an outstanding education and that collaboration should always be put before competition.