Following 10 years of Headship at St Matthew’s C of E Teaching and Research School, Paulette become the Assistant Director of Continuous School Improvement, at Birmingham Education Partnership in 2019.
Paulette is a designated National Leader of Education; an accredited Pupil Premium Reviewer; a Leadership Coach and Facilitator for Ambition Institute; an accredited RE Quality Mark Assessor and sits on two DFE Advisory Boards.

In 2015 Paulette was elected to the Birmingham Diocesan Board of Education. Paulette describes her leadership style as ‘calm and approachable’. Her strengths lie in her ability to balance high professional aspirations, with a desire to ensure wellbeing and advancement, across the school community. Paulette is passionate about developing school leaders and is a founder member of BAME LEAP, a professional development group that aims to accelerate the career progression of teachers, middle and senior leaders from BAME backgrounds in and around Birmingham.

Her work to raise school standards and impact the life chances of generations of young people has been recognised, at the highest levels. In 2016 Paulette was awarded an MBE for her Services to Education - she took the whole school down to London, to meet the Queen! Paulette was also awarded an Honorary Doctorate from Aston University, for her ‘significant contribution to raising attainment amongst young people, in the Aston and Nechells areas of Birmingham’.

Paulette is a Yorkshire girl by birth, and it was here that she developed a love of the theatre. She was awarded the Yorkshire Achievers Award for her contributions to the development of the black arts movement in the region. In her spare time, she can be found in a theatre near you, transporting herself off into a world of comedy, melodrama or historical enactment.

Shabana has previously worked as a Headteacher and Executive Headteacher in Birmingham, where she was part of the governing board, a Director of Education across 6 schools (EYFS- Year 13) in the UAE, and DCEO in an educational institute in the Northern Emirates. 

Shabana is currently operating internationally as a self-employed educational consultant, where she has successfully written and implemented many strategic plans; having moved schools from Requiring Improvements to being in the top 0.5% of schools in England. Shabana is also a facilitator for the National Professional Qualification (NPQEYL) in the UK and trains senior leaders to become accredited school inspectors and evaluators in the UAE.

Shabana strongly believes it is the duty of all to ensure young people are given the best opportunities, academically, emotionally, physically, mentally, and socially.  As a Trustee, Shabana enables contextual Board oversight on all these factors.

As a parent, grandparent and having served in senior positions across a range of education settings for almost two decades, Shabana brings invaluable educational insight to PACT’s Board of Trustees.

With 2 decades of experience delivering strategic leadership for global organisations, Liz Dean is an experienced FM leader with a determination to maximise profitability, develop client relationships, and lead on the development of international commercial strategy. Being particularly passionate about collaboration, Liz enjoys bringing cross-functional teams together to drive positive outcomes in complex organisational settings.

Liz has two children attending local primary and secondary schools and is committed to the opportunity of Trustee at PACT through bringing both professional experience and priorities as a parent to the Board of Trustees, supporting the Trust to provide a fantastic learning environment for its pupils, staff, and communities.

Clive Lawrence OBE is a nationally recognised education leader, keynote speaker and advocate for SEND, equality, diversity and inclusion. His career spans senior and executive roles across multi-academy trust, school and system leadership, including headship, executive headship and trust-level improvement roles across special, alternative provision and mainstream settings. Clive has served as a National Leader of Education (NLE) and supported schools and trusts facing significant challenges. He has successfully led improvement at scale, transformed outcomes for children and families, and guided schools through complex periods of challenge and change. Earlier in his career, Clive became one of the youngest headteachers in the country, receiving a formal letter of commendation from the government at age 28 recognising this achievement. He went on to lead a large split-site special school to an Ofsted Outstanding judgement and has influenced national thinking on inclusion, behaviour, social mobility and leadership. Clive is a qualified teacher, holds a master’s degree in Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND), and has completed the National Professional Qualification in Executive Leadership (NPQEL). His expertise is rooted not only in professional experience but also in lived experience. Growing up in social housing, attending an inner-city secondary school as a free-school-meal pupil, and navigating the education system as a kinship carer with legal parental responsibility for his niece. In 2022, Clive was awarded an OBE for his outstanding services to education in the Queen’s New Year Honours.

Sal Naseem FRSA is the former Regional Director for London at the Independent Office for Police Conduct, where he spent the best part of a decade working in the police accountability framework in England and Wales. Sal is currently Birmingham’s Assistant Director of Insight, Policy & Strategy, a Senior Associate Fellow at The Police Foundation and an independent panel member at the National Fire Chiefs Council, supporting their work on culture and inclusion and a Trustee at the Centre for Justice Innovation.

Sal has been listed as one of the top 10 voices in the world on anti-discrimination on LinkedIn by Favikon in 2024. Honoured as one of the 50 most influential people driving change in the UK through inclusion in the Diversity Power List 2023/2024, and also recognised as one of the most inspirational leaders on inclusion by D&I Leaders 2024.

Sal has worked on some of the most high-profile misconduct cases featuring the Metropolitan Police Service in recent years. As the Strategic Lead on Discrimination his work focused on stop & search, racism, misogyny, and police culture. Sal sat on the NPCC Police Race Action Plan Board, and the NPCC National DEI Board as an independent member.

Sal is also a media commentator and uses his platform to talk about male allyship as a necessity in the fight against male violence against women and girls, and broader issues related to inclusion.

Sal holds a law degree from the University of Glasgow and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and Society of Leadership Fellows.

Phillipa Sherlock Lewis is Chief Executive Officer and Accounting Officer of Prince Albert Community Trust, which she co-founded in 2015. With over two decades of experience in education she has held leadership positions such as Head Teacher, Executive Head, COO, DCEO and more recently achieved the NPQEL.

As CEO, Phillipa is honoured to lead a dedicated team of professionals who are deeply committed to providing the very best education for each and every student, just as she endeavours to do for her own children. Working collaboratively, everyone at PACT strives to create opportunities, inspire innovation, and empower individuals to make a meaningful difference. Phillipa is a campaigner for enabling equity and is passionate about diverse minds empowering success.

I lead the Millennium Point team, ensuring best practices across both the property company and charitable trust.

Having graduated from the University of Wales, Aberystwyth with a master’s degree in Business Administration (MBA), I spent the next 20 years advising many privately held UK businesses during my time at Grant Thornton and KPMG.

Capitalising on all my experience, I am delighted to now be leading the team at Millennium Point, focusing on driving our commercial strategy as a landlord and events provider, to generate funds to meet our charitable objective of supporting science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) in the West Midlands.

I am extremely passionate about supporting and promoting STEM and creating as many opportunities as possible to support our future generation of innovators. The industries of the future are either STEM-focused or underpinned by STEM. As CEO of Millennium Point, I am determined to inspire more young people to enter the STEM industry which will not only have a positive impact on the UK economy but on our young people and their families, the results will be life-changing.

Growing up in a South Wales mining village, I am hugely aware of the importance of creating opportunities for the next generation, and so I am delighted to be a Trustee for PACT and be able to drive forward a strong STEM agenda that will not only recognise but also inspire future STEM leaders.

Sufian joins the Board of Trustees as a serving Ofsted inspector and the current Director of Chiltern Learning Trust’s Talent and Teaching School. An award winning educationalist, Sufian brings a wealth of experience from roles in secondary and further education. Sufian is committed to alleviating poverty in the UK and Malawi, through education and empowerment of communities.