Toby Salt

Professor Toby Salt is one of our team of Senior Advisors and is an experienced CEO and non-executive director. He is Chair of an academy council for Lift Schools and Chair of CATS Global Schools. He was previously CEO of AQA, the largest exam board in the UK, and Chief Executive of Ormiston Academies Trust, which sponsors 37 academies across England, with responsibility for 26,000 students and 3,500 staff. Prior to that, Toby was Deputy Chief Executive at the National College for School Leadership, an executive agency providing leadership development and policy advice for schools and ministers. He also provides coaching and mentoring for a number of CEOs in the education sector.

Toby has worked in a variety of education leadership roles, including as Executive Head of a federation of three schools, and has led schools (across the phases) to achieve ‘outstanding’ gradings under Ofsted. He is a visiting professor of education leadership at the University of Wolverhampton and a member of the Windsor Leadership Trust Chief Executives’ working group. He is a governor emeritus of Chichester FE and Chair of the Teaching Awards Trust.