Rosemary Campbell-Stephens MBE

Rosemary Campbell-Stephens MBE

is a teacher by profession. She received her education and professional training in England. Aged 19, she joined an African Caribbean Self-Help organisation while training to teach and went on to run a supplementary school for ten years in Birmingham while building her career in education in the West Midlands and London. Some of the highlights of her career include: being a reluctant OFSTED Inspector, but a brilliant Local Authority Adviser in London, as well as an adviser for the Department of Education (DFE), being Deputy Head of an outstanding secondary school and Headteacher of one of the most challenging schools in the country and becoming Lead Associate for the National College for Teaching and Leadership and Director for the National College for Educational Leadership in Jamaica. Rosemary is now a semi-retired programme developer, trainer, coach, speaker,

History: Unedited, 2020 Edition

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ROSEMARY CAMPBELL-STEPHENS

Rosemary is most proud of a groundbreaking leadership programme that she designed and led for the Institute of Education, University College London (UCL) from 2003-2011. The one-year programme, entitled Investing in Diversity, developed Black and other Global majority leaders for London schools. Subsequently, Investing in Diversity was extended in various guises across England and, in 2009 the programme became international in its reincarnation, Leading for Equity, at the Institute of Education, University of Toronto, Canada. Rosemary is a Visiting Fellow at UCL based on this work.

In 2015, the Queen awarded Rosemary Campbell-Stephens an MBE for over 35 years’ service to education in England.