Built on a passion for education.
Senior Leadership Team
As we launch we’d like to introduce you to some of QED’s senior leadership team:
Anita Gleave, CEO
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Having been blessed to work in Education for almost 40 years, being CEO of QED Schools Group is literally my life’s work! Having been a teacher and Head, I have twenty years of chalk face, lived experience. I moved to the corporate side of Education and Schools in 2008.
I was fortunate indeed to learn from the best taking Director roles at Alpha Plus Group and WCL before being a Founding Director of International Schools Partnership. I started my first schools’ group, Chatsworth Schools in 2018, closely followed by my second – Blenheim Schools during Covid. With my amazing team I grew Chatsworth to 16 schools and nurseries in the UK as well as creating inclusive schools in Dubai and The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
I am regularly asked to speak on a whole range of subjects, internationally and have been fortunate to collect several awards along the way. A serial entrepreneur, I have been fortunate to create many educational vehicles – whether curriculum overlays, development courses and indeed Ladies who LaunchED! the global platform for those of us crazy bonkers enough to dedicate ourselves to seeing education through a new lens.
Having studied at Oxford I was lucky enough to move back to the Cotswold fifteen years ago where I live with the amazing Lettie, my insufferably adorable wire-haired dachshund and her friends.
Those who know me know I love a good quote and this one, I’ve used often, sums up why we are here and what we are about….
“We have to go from what is essentially an industrial model of education, a manufacturing model, which is based on linearity and conformity and batching people. We have to move to a model that is based more on principles of agriculture. We have to recognise that human flourishing is not a mechanical process; it’s an organic process. And you cannot predict the outcome of human development. All you can do, like a farmer, is create the conditions under which they will begin to flourish.” ― Ken Robinson
Piers Frazier, COO
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I have spent more than twenty years working in education and I still feel incredibly lucky to do what I do. My career has taken me from teaching at a university in the United States to working with schools and families across the UK and around the world. Wherever I have been, my focus has always been the same: helping schools create the right conditions for children to thrive.
After beginning my journey as a lecturer, I moved into roles that allowed me to support schools more widely. I have worked with some of the largest independent school groups in the UK and internationally, helping them grow in ways that put pupils and their families at the centre. My work has taken me to fifteen different countries, each with its own culture and community, and those experiences have shaped how I think about education and what children need to feel confident and supported.
In my most recent role as Global Director of Marketing, Admissions and Communications at the International Schools Partnership, I worked closely with school leaders, teachers and parents to strengthen school communities, improve communication and ensure families always felt informed and valued. Listening to parents and understanding what matters to them has been a constant thread throughout my career.
I joined QED because I believe deeply in what we stand for. I believe in schools that are innovative, ambitious and inclusive. In giving children, the confidence to be themselves and the courage to explore the world around them. And I know that when schools, families and communities work together, children flourish.
My role at QED is to support our schools so they can focus on what matters most: the children in their care. It is a privilege to be part of this journey and to help build a group where every child is celebrated, inspired and enabled to become their very best.
Isobel Crockett, Head of Community & Partnerships
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I began my career in the art world working in London auction houses where I had a lot of fun and made some lifelong friends. After a few years I moved to the City and have spent the past fifteen years working for Rothschild & Co Redburn working in Corporate Access, meeting some exceptional people along the way. I worked hard to head up a thriving and successful team running conferences and corporate events where relationship building and teamwork has been at the heart of my work.
Since having my own children, the importance of education has become increasingly important, and I am delighted to be joining QED Schools Group for this new and very exciting chapter. The core values of QED, ‘courage, kindness and integrity’ reflect what I hope to pass on to my own family and I can’t wait to meet the people who make these schools so special and to play a part in helping them continue to flourish.
I am lucky to live in the beautiful Cotswolds with my husband, daughter and twin boys who keep me entertained alongside our chickens, guinea fowl and one very tolerant terrier.
Lettie Delaney, CMO
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Delighted to make your acquaintance… I’m Lettie Delaney, Chief Marketing, Entertainment and Support
Officer of QED Schools Group (it is important to have a fancy title!). I love everybody, especially
small people who may need a cuddle or a chat. I am at my happiest hurtling around the country in my
Mini, visiting schools and saying hello. I am always up for a laugh and mischief, and I am adept at
avoiding people getting cross! Anything I can do to help, just shout and make sure you invite me to
your next party!
Lxx
“At QED we benefit enormously from the critical friendship afforded to us by our Governance team. Independent from our Leadership team they provide support for our schools and our wider community. All educational professionals with significant experience, our Governance team live our values of Courage, Kindness and Integrity.”
Anita Gleave, CEO QED Schools Group
Governance Team
David Ward, Governor
David is an educationalist with an excellent leadership track record as a Head. He has a wealth of teaching, leadership, headship & management experience, curriculum design and vast experience in safeguarding, SEND, boarding, ISI & Estyn inspection preparation and health and wellbeing in schools.
Now retired from Headship, David remains an active governor at the Unicorn School Oxford, a school advisor in the UK & abroad, a mentor to those in current headship positions at both Prep & Senior schools, and Director of Link International Llandudno a charity supporting education, Health & Welfare in Uganda.
Mike Abraham, Governor
Mike is a highly experienced educational leader with over 24 years of headship experience, including roles in the Midlands and North of England. He has been involved in various educational initiatives, including launching Yarm Preparatory School, which grew from 0 to 320 pupils over 10 years.
Mike is known for his leadership in turning around struggling schools and has a keen interest in marketing, recruitment, and the management of schools. He is also a member of the National Junior Heads Steering Committee and has led numerous training days across the UK, Canada, USA, and New Zealand.
QED Schools Group is resolute in our determination to champion our sector, to promote all that is brilliant about UK education and to build a community of exceptional schools who have every child at their heart. As a group, we honour the best in independent education: integrity, scholarship, community and kindness.
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