Macia Grebot

Career Background

Macia has a school-based background with extensive experience at senior management level in the maintained and special schools sector. Her qualifications include a National Professional Qualification for Headship (NQPH), a Performance Management Consultant, and European Foundation for Quality Management Assessor .

After 20 years of working in schools, Macia made the transition to a local education authority role within the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames. This gave her experience both within strategic management and school improvement.

In 2003, together with her business partner – Isabella Donnelly, Macia formed Grebot Donnelly Associates – a company providing marketing and communications specialising in the education sector.

Key Reponsibilities

Macia’s had a wide range of responsibilities whilst working within local authority. She developed schools’ awareness and understanding of their responsibilities as purchasers of services, consistent with best value principles, and worked w ith service managers to help them understand the changing political and economic environment.

She also developed and managed strategies to address issues of recruitment and retention of teaching staff, and was involved in the training and development of teaching and non-teaching staff , including behaviour and crisis management.

Currently, as director of Grebot Donnelly Associates, Macia is responsible for the management of a range of projects at LEA and school level, as well as being involved in a number of initiatives with other educational bodies.

Key Achievements

During her time working at the London Borough of Richmond, Macia successfully managed the process of agreeing service level agreements, and developed the outsourcing of services to support school development. She also led the Advanced Skills Teachers’ initiative.

Grebot Donnelly Associates are gaining increasing recognition for their work with marketing and communications providing a key contributing element to school improvement and to effecting cultural transformation.

Macia has also published a series of articles on the subject of marketing for education and has co-written a book with Isabella Donnelly and Brin Best, ‘Promoting Your School’, one in a series of Teachers’ Pocketbook.

What is being brought to the Board

Experience at senior level within a school, together with a varied management role within local authority driving forward a range of initiatives supporting school improvement.