Matt Bromley

Speaker Summary

Educational authority Matt Bromley, with 25 years of diverse experience, is an accomplished teacher, leader, and prolific author. Having served as a headteacher, academy principal, college vice principal, and multi-academy trust director, Matt is a sought-after public speaker, trainer, and school improvement advisor. He remains active in secondary, FE, and HE settings, balancing his roles as a teacher and lecturer. A distinguished writer, he contributes to prominent education publications, co-hosts a revered podcast, and holds a senior role in SecEd’s editorial board. Matt’s bestselling books cover leadership, curriculum design, and effective teaching. As a speaker at national and international events, he also provides education advice and training to various organisations, showcasing his influential role in the education landscape.

Areas of Expertise

Educational Psychology

Full Profile

Matt Bromley is an education journalist, author, and advisor with twenty five years’ experience in teaching and leadership including as a secondary school headteacher and academy principal, further education college vice principal, and multi-academy trust director. Matt is a public speaker, trainer, initial teacher training lecturer, and school improvement advisor. He remains a practising teacher, currently working in secondary, FE and HE settings. Matt writes for various magazines, is the author of numerous best-selling books on education, and co-hosts an award-winning podcast.

Matt Bromley is an education journalist, author, and advisor with twenty five years’ experience in teaching and leadership including as a secondary school headteacher and academy principal, further education college vice principal, multi-academy trust director, and multiple board member.

Matt is a public speaker, trainer, school and college improvement advisor, and school governor. He remains a practising teacher, working in secondary, FE and HE settings, and is the lead lecturer on a national initial teacher training programme.

Matt writes for various newspapers and magazines including SecEd, Headteacher Update, SEN Leader, TES, School Inspection+Improvement Magazine, Children & Young People Now, and Teach Secondary. He is a senior member of SecEd’s editorial board and co-hosts their award-winning podcast, chairs many of their live webinars, and writes most of their monthly pull-out best practice supplements.

He is the author of numerous best-selling books for teachers including ‘How to Become a School Leader’, ‘The Art of Public Speaking’, ‘Making Key Stage 3 Count’, ‘The New Teacher Survival Kit’, as well as a How To trilogy – ‘How to Teach’, ‘How to Learn’ and ‘How to Lead’ – and a 3-volume series on ‘School & College Curriculum Design’, recently updated and abridged as ‘Intent, Implementation, Impact: How to Design and Deliver an Ambitious School Curriculum’. His latest book – co-authored with Andy Griffith for Crown House Publishing – is ‘The Working Classroom’. He is currently writing a book on ‘The Stories We Tell’ for Routledge.

Matt’s education blog, once voted one of the UK’s most influential, receives over 50,000 unique visitors a year. In addition to blog posts, Matt provides free downloadable resources including instructional videos, podcasts, posters, and ebooks.

He regularly speaks at national and international conferences and events, and provides education advice to charities, government agencies, training providers, colleges, and multi-academy trusts. He works as a consultant and trainer with several companies including The National College, Education Conferences UK, Creative Education, Osiris Educational, Keynote Educational, the Education and Training Foundation, Inside Government, Westminster Insight, NSMTC, the Association of Colleges, and the West Yorkshire Consortium of Colleges. He has also provided training services to the three major education trade unions NASUWT, ASCL, and NEU.

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