Diana Osagie

Founder Courageous Leadership Consultancy, The Academy of Women’s Leadership

With 26 years’ experience leading secondary education, including headship in a London secondary school and subsequently as an executive head; Diana works at the cutting edge of leadership development. She is known as a resilient, skilled in urban leadership under challenging circumstances, she has coached over 80 senior leaders across schools, colleges and trusts.

Diana couples sound strategic vision whilst giving clear operational direction. Diana led school inspections for 9 years with OFSTED and developed expertise scrutinizing operational systems and leadership competency. She founded The Academy of Women’s Leadership, specialising in supporting women to grow the leadership cultures of their organisations and to flourish as supremely confident leaders. She is due to complete her training Jan 2026 as a non- executive director specialising in leadership support systems.

Diana has served as a trustee for one of the largest multi academy trusts and on the board of a large University in the UK. She has published 4 books on leadership- focusing on the truth of leading others with humour, love and strength.

Session details:

Transformational leadership - the principles and practicalities, it’s what makes you phenomenal!

Can I ask you to open your mind to something? Transformational leadership is amazing; it feels great and the impact is long lasting.

But it starts in unexpected places… - The world values ‘power over and control’, the concept of ‘power with and empowerment’ feels unfamiliar - At its core, transformational leadership is about empowering others to grow, both personally and professionally. Using your position to elevate others, ooohh, now what does that look like?

Now let me ask you the hard question… Is your leadership so good that the success of your team member is not likely, not possible but inevitable?