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Andrew Cowley is one of the UK’s leading voices on wellbeing in education, known for turning complex challenges into clear, practical action.
With over 20 years of experience as a teacher and senior leader, including as a deputy headteacher, he brings a grounded and credible perspective to every keynote.
Now a full time speaker, author, and coach, Andrew works with schools and educational organisations across the UK and internationally. His focus is on helping schools move beyond short term initiatives to embed mental health into leadership, curriculum, and culture, creating environments where both staff and students can thrive.
Andrew is the author of three widely respected books published by Bloomsbury Education: The Wellbeing Toolkit, The Wellbeing Curriculum, and The School Mental Health Toolkit. His work provides practical frameworks for building sustainable approaches to wellbeing across whole school systems.
His keynotes are known for their clarity and immediate impact, offering actionable strategies that leaders and teams can apply straight away. Through his THINK model and real world insight, he helps schools tackle challenges such as staff burnout, workload pressure, and maintaining morale, while building long term, values driven cultures.
A sought after speaker and CPD provider, Andrew has worked with organisations including The Key, UAE Teachers Network, and the Carnegie Centre of Excellence for Mental Health in Schools. He is also co founder of the Healthy Toolkit platform and supports schools through coaching linked to the School Mental Health Award.
Andrew equips schools with the tools, mindset, and structure needed to create mentally healthy environments where people can perform at their best.
Who supports the wellbeing of your school leaders while they support everyone else?
School leaders often carry the weight of staff and student wellbeing, but neglect their own. This imbalance leads to burnout, decision fatigue, and diminished impact. Andrew Cowley’s keynote on Wellbeing for Leaders addresses this critical yet overlooked issue head-on.
As a former deputy head and respected wellbeing expert, Andrew brings deep insight into the pressures of educational leadership. His keynote offers practical strategies to help leaders prioritize their own mental health without compromising their responsibilities.
From setting healthy boundaries to building personal resilience, Andrew equips leaders with tools to model the very wellbeing values they promote. The result? Stronger leadership, improved performance, and a more balanced, healthier school culture.
Book Andrew Cowley for your event and give your leadership team the strategies and support they need to thrive, not just survive, in their roles.
Are your school leaders equipped to lead wellbeing with clarity, confidence, and consistency?
In many schools, wellbeing is seen as everyone’s responsibility, but without strong leadership, it risks becoming no one’s priority. Andrew Cowley’s keynote on Leadership of Wellbeing offers a clear, strategic path forward.
Drawing on years of leadership experience and his work as a bestselling author, Andrew empowers senior teams to lead wellbeing with intention, empathy, and impact. His sessions help leaders move beyond reactive responses to embed wellbeing into vision, policy, and daily practice.
With practical tools and the acclaimed THINK framework, Andrew provides leaders with the confidence to build emotionally intelligent teams, foster psychological safety, and drive sustainable culture change.
Book Andrew Cowley for your event and equip your leadership team to champion a whole-school approach to mental health and staff wellbeing that delivers lasting results.
Is your school struggling with staff burnout, low morale, or rising mental health concerns?
Creating a culture of emotional wellbeing is no longer a luxury, it’s a strategic imperative. Through powerful, insight-driven keynotes, Andrew Cowley equips school leaders with the mindset, tools, and frameworks needed to embed wellbeing at the heart of their school culture.
As a former deputy head and acclaimed author on school wellbeing, Andrew understands the daily pressures educators face. His keynotes provide practical, whole-school approaches that shift wellbeing from one-off initiatives to sustainable, values-led practices.
From fostering empathetic leadership to building emotionally safe environments, Andrew helps schools move from reactive fixes to proactive, long-term change.
Book Andrew Cowley for your event and discover how a culture of emotional wellbeing can transform staff engagement, student outcomes, and overall school success.
Is wellbeing in your school treated as an afterthought, only addressed when problems arise?
Too often, wellbeing is reactive, fragmented, and short-lived. But real impact comes when wellbeing is strategic, continuous, and rooted in strong relationships. In his powerful keynotes, Andrew Cowley shows schools how to shift from crisis response to proactive culture-building.
As a former deputy head and acclaimed author on school wellbeing, Andrew delivers clear, evidence-informed strategies that place wellbeing at the core of leadership, planning, and daily interactions. His approach emphasizes the power of relational leadership, where empathy, consistency, and connection drive positive change.
Through frameworks like THINK and insights from his bestselling books, Andrew equips your team to build resilient, values-led environments where staff and students feel seen, supported, and valued.
Book Andrew Cowley for your event and transform wellbeing from a checkbox into a culture-defining, strategic priority
Rooted in practical ideas that are working well in UK schools, this guide to teacher wellbeing is an incredible helping hand for teachers and school leaders looking to enable staff to thrive and strive
Andrew Cowley tackles the toxic side of school culture effected by high levels of accountability and change. All school leaders need this toolkit, which offers a principled, strategic approach to wellbeing and to building authentic relationships within the school community.
