Our penultimate keynote speaker today @stevemunby speaking to the #ippn21 conference theme 'Leadership for an Imperfect World'. What a thought-provoking and inspiring input!

"School leaders are having to deal with issues that even the most experienced ones have never had to deal with before. There is no manual or mental map to fall back on."

"In my book 'Imperfect Leadership – a book for leaders who know they don’t know it all’, I present 7 principles on imperfect leadership in a crisis and in times of uncertainty"

"1. Show Up and Walk into the wind - in times of crisis, we don’t delegate
2. We adapt our leadership to our new context
3. Ask for help – internally and externally - inviting others in & asking for help – is a highly effective leadership strategy, and one that can be developed"

"4 - Be decisive but be quick to review and, if necessary, amend
5 - Deal with the urgent but build in some space for the strategic and for the future
6 - Lead with empathy and authenticity. Do the right thing."

"7 - Pragmatic Optimism - Our role is not to be blindly optimistic, it is also to prepare people for tough times. What we can do as imperfect leaders is to show up, with optimism and resilience, to reach out, ask for help, do what is right and let cheerfulness break through."

"Part of our role as leaders is for our colleagues and our children to see us being positive about the future; that we will get through this and out of the other side; to tell the story of what it is going to be like and the positive future ahead."