Shareen Wilkinson - Executive Director (Education)

Shareen is Executive Director of Education and leads on curriculum, teaching and learning and assessment across the LEO academy schools, as well as overseeing the central education team. Shareen has been in education for over 20 years and has fulfilled a wide range of senior leadership roles, including being an LA Lead Primary Adviser, English adviser and is still an education consultant to several organisations.  Shareen has a proven and extensive track record of raising standards in primary schools and has worked with schools and LAs across the country. Her subject specialisms are English, assessment, teaching and learning and leadership. 

Shareen is an established educational author, writer and editor and has written educational resources and books for Hodder Education, DK children’s books, Oxford University Press, Letts, Harper Collins and Teach Primary magazine.

Her work has been valued across the country and she has presented at various national conferences, including ResearchEd (Oxford), the BETT show, the Education Show, the Education Festival and also for the National Literacy Trust. For the past decade, Shareen has worked with the DfE in various advisory/ reviewer roles, including as a KS1 and KS2 reading and grammar quality assurance subject expert proofreader, and as an STA deputy standardisation team leader for the KS2 national writing training.