Tessa Mason is a highly experienced education adviser for both cross-phase MATs and the maintained schools’ sector in the North of England; she has strong, recent expertise and experience in leading and managing regional system change implementing new and existing education policy, and the brokerage and commissioning of school improvement from system leaders and strong academy trusts. Tessa has operated as a commissioned senior regional adviser, more recently in the Covid Support Programme and Trust and School Improvement Offer and is used to working in close partnership with DfE colleagues and regional teams to achieve policy outcomes.
She has worked as a strategic adviser, mentor and coach to a large number of MAT CEOs and executive leaders, and is the Chair of Bradford Diocesan Academies Trust, a large and successful diocesan MAT based in the opportunity area of Bradford and reaching out across West Yorkshire. Tessa is very well researched, and up to date in terms of the current shaping of the educational landscape to provide the essential structures for effective school improvement ,accountability via governance reviews, curriculum compliance, the intentions of education policy and the implementation of new legislation.
