Varady Career Consulting

Developing Educational Leaders
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Margaret has been a secondary teacher for 39 years and has taught in various schools in Sydney, Australia and New Zealand. She was Principal at Sydney Girls High School from 1992-2008. She worked for the Board of Studies for 2 years as a Regional Field Officer mainly in Assessment and Reporting and was Supervisor of Higher School Certificate Biology marking for 9 years. She was the Coordinator of the Office of Educational Leadership in the School of Education UNSW from 2009 until 2014.

Margaret’s doctoral thesis was “The relationships between School Culture and Student
Outcomes in New South Wales Selective schools”’ and Margaret has a great interest in the role of school culture in improving student outcomes.

Margaret has been on various committees and working parties over her career covering girls’ education, gifted students as well as on syllabus and exam committees.

Margaret was awarded an AO in the Australia Day Honours in 2005, the Wyndham Medal in 2008, selected as one of the top 100 principals across the world (Beijing 2006) and one of the most influential educators in Sydney (2007 SMH). She is a Fellow of the Australian College of Educators(FACE) and a Fellow of the Australian College of Educational Leaders (FACEL) and was a ministerial appointment on the University of Sydney Senate (2002-2009) and the Centennial Parklands Trust (2002-2010).

She has been a NSW Australia Day Ambassador. In 2013 she was highly commended for the Community Engagement Award at the University of New South Wales (UNSW). She was a member of the UNSW Global Advisory Committee in 2013 and 2014 and was awarded an Honorary Fellowship at the UNSW in 2015.

She is currently running her own consultancy in Developing Educational Leaders and is the Head of Education at the Institute of Digital Education Africa(IDEA). In this role, she is working on initiatives to improve teaching and learning programs in Tanzania, Kenya, South Africa as well as Middle East counties.

Margaret is certified as a Leadership Circle Consultant in the Leadership Circle Profile, the Manager Edition and the Leadership Culture Survey.

Dr Margaret Varady AO
BSc MEd EdD DipEd FACE FACEL Hon Fellow UNSW

Margaret has been a secondary teacher for 39 years and has taught in various schools in NSW and New Zealand. She was Principal at Sydney Girls High School from 1992-2008. She worked for the Board of Studies for 2 years as an RFO mainly in the area of Assessment and Reporting and was Supervisor of HSC marking for 9 years. She was the Coordinator of the Office of Educational Leadership in the School of Education UNSW from 2009 until 2014.

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Thank you for being such and inspirational presenter and facilitator of the courses I attended last year and this year. Your wisdom and good humour was immeasurably valuable!

- Head Teacher

It was your passion and guidance that led me taking on study at UNSW and I give that study a great deal of credit for my recent promotion.

- Principal NSW

Hardly a day goes by when I am not putting something in place or reflecting on matters you've introduced to me, through research or drawing from your own experience as an educator.

- Masters student

You have been a great inspiration and mentor to me, developing my understanding of what it means to lead change in schools.

- Deputy Principal

Everyone speaks highly of you and your committment to raising education standards is without question.

- Secondary School teacher

I am glad I had the opportunity to learn from your experience and knowledge.

- Deputy Principal

Thanks again for your help. Having the mock interview and feedback helped me so very much.

- appointed Head Teacher

You will never know how much your support and encouragement kept me positive and working hard

- appointed Deputy Head

Individual Consultations

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Module 1

Developing your Career Plan

This involves the development of short-term and long-term career plans.

Module 2

Applying for the Position

This covers the construction of a curriculum vitae, responses to specific criteria and the role of referees.

Module 3

The Interview

This covers preparation for an interview and the interview process.

Leadership Programs

Works with Schools, Teams and Individuals.

Building Leadership Capacity in individual School Leaders 
Building Leadership Capacity of Middle Leaders in schools 
Developing a 'culture of leadership and achievement' in school teams
Executive Coaching
Empowering Gifted students
Coaching/Mentoring School Leaders
Personalising Learning
Leadership for Learning
Women in Leadership
Career Planning
The Interview
Building Team Leadership
Good Schooling
School Improvement and Performance