Rose is passionate about changing lives and life-chances for the better and is proud to be Chair of Governors at St John’s College. She began her career as a teacher for children with SEND, is a former director of Children’s services in four authorities across the country authorities (two in the South East, one in the West Midlands and one in the South West), has worked as a DfE intervention adviser and served as a non-executive CCG director.
Rose is an English graduate, an executive coach (ILM Level 7), and an experienced leader with extensive experience in designing, leading, and facilitating leadership and development programmes. Recent examples include programmes addressing equity with system leaders, managers and practitioners across a London Council area and reducing racial disparities with a number of regional adoption agencies, as well as leading equality, equity, inclusion and diversity sessions with leadership teams, governors, and trustees, co-leading a number of ‘Women in Leadership’ courses and leading LGA peer reviews.
She is a Staff College Associate, and co-authored ‘Leading in Colour: the fierce urgency of NOW’, published by The Staff College, designed to be both an urgent call for action and a helpful resource to support leaders across the public sector be and stay inclusive, diverse, and fair and wrote the Staff College publications ‘Just Fair’ and ‘Just Heart, Just Hope, Just Home’ on racial disparities across the Youth Justice system and permanence for global majority children, respectively. She is one of the facilitators on the Women in Leadership programmes.
Rose is an active Chair of Governors, a trustee for a Multi-Academy Trust and serves as a Laurel Trust trustee, a national charity supporting research and innovation by schools serving areas of multiple disadvantages. She is the Independent Person for her local council, and a Samaritans volunteer.