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Lornshill Academy
Tullibody Road
Alloa, Clackmannanshire, FK10 2ES
United Kingdom

Bradley Busch

Bradley Busch is a registered Psychologist, director of InnerDrive and co-author of the book The Science of Learning. He has consulted with over 200 schools, businesses and Premiership footballers as well as members of Team GB on how to use psychological research to improve learning, performance and resilience.

David Cameron

David Cameron is very old and has done a lot of stuff, mainly in education. He once did a TEDx in Buenos Aires so moving on to a TEDx in Clackmannanshire seemed like a very logical step up for him. He craved the exotica of Tullibody and he wants to end the day by challenging our advocacy of resilience and encourage resistance. In his words, what we cope with, we don’t change and maybe we should.

Gavin Oattes

Gavin Oattes is an international keynote speaker, award-winning entrepreneur and the bestselling author of 3 books. Now working with some of the biggest organisations in the world, his inspiration all comes from where he started his career...primary school teaching.

George Gilchrist

Since retiring from his headteacher role in 2017 George has remained busy and involved in education. His first book on Practitioner Enquiry was published by Routledge in January 2018, and he has continued to write for TESS, and other educational publications and websites. George now works with Connect Scotland delivering sessions for them around parental engagement. George still works with schools and local authorities, both here in Scotland and elsewhere, particularly with practitioner enquiry, leadership and professional learning. George believe deeply in meaningful collaboration, and knows we have lots to celebrate and be proud of in Scottish education.

Graham Goulden

Graham spent 30 years as a Police Officer. The last 10 years he was a Chief Inspector with the Scottish Violence Reduction Unit (VRU). During these last years he introduced the idea of the bystander into Scottish schools. Graham believes that boys and men possess and share a range of healthy values. He doesn’t believe in simply having to educate individuals. For him, its more about inviting boys and men in conversations that make the ‘invisible visible’. Graham is a passionate advocate for boys and men. His work has identified a number of challenges that boys and men face. Graham simply wants to help boys be the men they, and men be the dads, husbands and partners they want to be.

Isla Buchanan

Isla Buchanan, 19 from Perth. I am a coach and a football referee and studying sports coaching at college. This is how football saved my life.

Jade Kilkenny

Jade Kilkenny 24 works for Community Justice Scotland as an apprentice. Part of her apprenticeship has been about her development - creating blogs, building up confidence in public speaking and working alongside other organisations like the Care Review. Jade also volunteers for a variety of organisations such as LANDED, TNT champions board and is on the board for Through Care After Care Forum. Jade has lived experience involving different transitions in life and being a care leaver, Jade has her own house with her fiancé and two dogs. Jade also got into university to study Community Education in 2020.

Liam Stewart

Columba 1400 representative

Rick Orr

Rick Orr is the development and communications manager at Winning Scotland Foundation, a charity that works with teachers, coaches and parents to help young people develop confidence and resilience. Today, he is going to talk about how The Foundation is leading the drive to embed a growth mindset culture across Scottish education, and will share some of the tools that have made the biggest impact in our schools.

Shumela Ahmed

Managing Director of Resilience Learning Partnership

Victoria Heaney

Campaigner for the end period poverty campaign

Wendy Chalmers Mill

Wendy is the UK’s Humanology expert and has a unique passion for helping people to recognise the benefits of positive human impact and communication. She specialises in in the field of Leadership, Communication, Resilience and Wellbeing. She is a published Author and has frequently been interviewed on TV and radio.