Meet our leadership specialists
mike donoghue OBE
barbara mahoney
gill martin
lisa farmer
Chief Executive Officer
Mike became CEO for John Taylor MAT 10 years. He has an MBA and a wealth of Leadership Experience.
He is a trained Pupil Premium Reviewer, a member of the Department for Education’s Secondary Headteacher Reference Group and works with colleagues to co-ordinate the Trust and School Improvement Offer across the West Midlands for the Department for Education.
Chief Operating officer
Barbara was appointed as the Chief Operating Officer for the Trust in April 2018
Barbara was appointed as the Chief Operating Officer for the Trust in April 2018 and has strategic responsibility for Finance, Human Resources, Premises Management, Health and Safety and Free School Project delivery.
Director of school Improvement (Secondary)
Joining the MAT team in 2018 as part time secondary School Improvement partner for our secondary phase academies
Gill is a very experienced senior leader, a trained Ofsted Inspector and an accredited Pupil Premium Reviewer. As school Improvement Partner Gill’s role is to work collaboratively with the CEO and Primary School Improvement Partner to disseminate and implement the School Improvement Strategy across the trust. She is a member of the Executive Group and the Achievement and Progress Committee.
Director of school Improvement (Primary)
Lisa was appointed as the MAT Primary School Improvement Partner in 2017.
Following her post as headteacher at Thomas Russell Infants School from 2005, after 5 years as Deputy headteacher in Birmingham’s largest Primary school. Lisa became Co-headteacher in 2009 and from September 2017 was appointed as the MAT Primary School Improvement Partner
Sian Carter
Director of HR
Sian joined JTMAT in …
In Addition to Being the Trust Director of HR she is also qualified as an accredited coach, and More recently she has supported a variety of SMEs on all matters HR.
Mark Crompton
Director of Technology & Information
Mark joined John Taylor Multi Academy Trust in January 2016. he has overseen the development of Trust’s network, as well as negotiating reduced Service Level Agreements for our partner schools
In 2017 he was appointed as a Specialist Leader of Education (SLE) and is busy implementing the Trust’s ICT vision including increasing use of Office365, SchoolIP and other innovative systems.
He has a keen member of the Executive Group and played a critical role in the configuration, procurement and delivery of the ICT systems at the John Taylor Free School.
Mark Harris
Director of Estates
Mark is a qualified building services engineer with over 25 years’ experience working in local authority and healthcare property teams.
He is an experienced contract administrator and has worked as part of a multi-disciplinary team responsible for the maintenance and building compliance to over a hundred secondary, primary and infant school sites
Lorraine Godber
Director of Finance
Appointed as Company Accountant at John Taylor High School in November 2017. Lorraine became ACA qualified with the Institute of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales in 2002
and has previously worked as an auditor for an accounting practice and in industry as a Financial Accountant. Lorraine works closely with all the Trust schools and manages the internal audit process..
Nathan Morland
Mike Simmons
Kirby Dowler
Stacey jordan
Nathan was appointed as Director of john Taylor teaching School Hub in 202….
He was previously ..
Mike joined John taylor High School and the Teaching School Hub in …
As well as he role as scitt director he is a geography teacher and has an experience …