Mark Steed

Founder, Steed Education

Mark S. Steed has spent the past 23 years leading top independent international schools in the UK, Dubai and Hong Kong.

He now runs Steed Education (steededucation.com), an international educational consultancy committed to supporting school leaders. Steed Education provides project management services for key strategic initiatives, such as school mergers, opening new campuses and developing digital strategy; as well as undertaking IT and cyber-risk audits and implementation programmes.

Mark worked in the UK as a Teacher, Head of Department, and Boarding Housemaster prior to his two senior leaderships roles as Headmaster of Kelly College in Devon; and then as Principal of the Berkhamsted Schools Group. He moved aboard in September 2015 to be Director of JESS, Dubai, before moving to Hong Kong in September 2019 to be the Principal and CEO of Kellett School. On returning to the UK he was the Interim Principal and CEO of Stamford School in Lincolnshire for the academic year 2024-25. He chaired the UK Independent Schools Council Digital Strategy Group from 2007 to 2015.

Mark has degrees from Cambridge and Nottingham Universities and from Ashridge-Hult Business School and has completed the Harvard course on Cybersecurity: Managing Risk in the Information Age. He is particularly interested in the use of technology in education and is currently working on a number of projects related to new models for secondary schooling, particularly online and hybrid schools.

Mark writes regularly about international education and a range of other educational and IT issues. He is active on his LinkedIn page https://www.linkedin.com/in/independenthead.

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