Zoe Rollinson
Leadership, for me, demands empathy and authority, protecting people, setting boundaries, and keeping promises even when it is uncomfortable. I lead in that way is decisive, strategic, and integrity driven. Through my own visionary insight, I take responsibility for results, own the consequences, and expect the same accountability from those who work with me. I am a visionary who is enthusiastic about connecting people (projects or reports) to goals aims and directives of my organisation.
Across my career, I have rebuilt failing systems, led reform across government and education, and delivered measurable improvement in performance, cost control, and public confidence.
Directing £200m portfolios and cross-functional teams of 1500+, I convert ministerial ambition into measurable, real-world delivery. My leadership style is defined by precision, pace, and radical clarity by cutting through noise, challenging assumptions, and creating the conditions for others to thrive. I am widely recognised for blending policy intelligence with digital innovation, spearheading AI-driven governance reforms that have saved millions, strengthened accountability, and reshaped performance culture within the Department for Education and Education Sector.
Leigh McFarlane
Leigh McFarlane is the founding Director of Kaizen Safeguarding, with over 25 years’ experience working across the faith, charity, and education sectors. She specialises in safeguarding within faith contexts, working across all four UK nations as well as internationally. Her work focuses on developing safe, healthy cultures where safeguarding is understood not simply as process, but as an ethical, cultural, and leadership responsibility. She has a particular interest in spiritual abuse and is committed to ensuring faith spaces are safe, healthy environments for all.
A committed advocate for survivors, Leigh centres survivor voice in organisational response, learning, and reform, ensuring lived experience meaningfully shapes practice at every level. She has published academic research on safeguarding in faith settings and engages across both grassroots safeguarding practice and public policy, including previous work with parliamentary groups at Westminster and current involvement with the Cross-party Group for Adult Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse at the Scottish Parliament.
Leigh brings experience of senior leadership, governance, and public engagement, including media work and public speaking. She supports organisations navigating complex safeguarding challenges, helping them embed trauma-informed, survivor-centred approaches and create environments that are not only safer, but braver – where people are heard, respected, and valued.
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