Marwa Farouq: Teach for All – How to Focus on Diversity and Think Sustainability in Business.

Marwa Farouq is a Certified Executive Coach, Certified Family Coach and Parent Educator and works as the Global Head of Operations Circle at Teach for All. Teach for All is a worldwide network of 60 independent, locally led partner organisations who work together to develop a coalition of leaders to tackle the complex challenges facing children in disadvantaged communities. Marwa explains, in this video from the 2022 Happy Workplaces video, how Teach for All operates as self-managing across different cultures whilst maintaining a clear focus on diversity, inclusion and sustainability.

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Listening to Marwa Farouq, Global Head of Operations, talk about Teach for All, its values, mission and ways of working, is honestly inspiring. As an organisation Teach for All doesn’t rest on its laurels and is always looking for ways to learn, to improve and to reflect deeply on their culture and learning needs. Marwa tells us that recently “we have been really occupied with this learning question of ‘how are we setting ourselves up as an organisation, and subsequently as a network, to navigate an ever-changing ecosystem in a way that is sustainable for us as an organisation but also is sustainable for our people?’”

When we hosted Marwa at the 2022 Happy Workplaces conference she gave the delegates present a host of thought provoking stories, valuable insights into some of Teach for All’s techniques around self-management and coaching, and a handful of really great nickable ideas.

At their last engagement survey Teach for All had “astounding” results: “94% of our staff have said that they think their management are team leads and are fully leaning into our core values, 90% thought that their manager helps them to make decisions and grow and develop, 93% thought that their manager welcomes their voice, includes them and supports their voice within the organisation.” Could you replicate this in your organisation?

What you will learn in this video:

What Learn for All looks like as an organisation.
How they sustain engagement and diversity of over 80%.
How to build leadership across every level of an organisation.
How to make managers managers not superheroes.
What coaching looks like at Teach for All: The Sponsorship Programme.
How you can bring decisions closer to the work.
How to build a truly inclusive organisation.
How to take a holistic approach to development.
How systems, processes and procedures can be dynamic, staff focussed and responsive to feedback.

Related resources:

Find out more about Teach for All on their website
Read Henry’s inspiring talk with Marwa
Be inspired, like Marwa with the Frederic Laloux Reinventing Organisations website
The Happy Manifesto by Henry Stewart – Download your free eBook, full of great ideas for creating a happy workplace
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