Everyone Succeeds

54 leadership behaviours to transform your school

A practical leadership framework built around 54 observable behaviours. Everyone Succeeds helps schools develop leadership through clear behaviours, leadership diagnostics and a repeatable leadership cycle.

Everyone Succeeds helps school leaders move from understanding leadership behaviours to applying them deliberately in real school contexts. The framework identifies 54 leadership behaviours observed in high-performing leaders. Understand them, practise them, and use them to strengthen leadership across your school.

Framework

Explore the 54 leadership behaviours that define effective school leadership.

Diagnostics

Understand your leadership strengths and priorities through structured diagnostics.

Leadership Cycle

Develop leadership behaviours deliberately through the Diagnose → Learn → Lead cycle.

For Schools

Introduce the framework across your leadership team and develop a shared language of leadership.

Two books and website

Everyone Succeeds: 54 leadership behaviours to transform your school, and its companion Workbook are two books that show you how to understand, practise and apply 54 proven leadership behaviours to transform your school. Together with the online tools and resources on this website (currently available free of charge), they form a complete framework for professional growth and lasting school improvement.

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As someone who has written several books on school leadership, it is an absolute delight to be able to say that this book from Steve is quite simply on another level. Rigorously rooted in the fundamentals of excellent everyday practice, it manages to codify school leadership in a way I just haven’t seen before. I cannot recommend it highly enough.

Andy BuckFounder of Leadership Matters and BASIC 4 Schools

A rare leadership book that does two things at once: it’s rigorously grounded in what we know about organizational effectiveness, and it’s genuinely readable. Steve turns big ideas into crisp, everyday leadership moves; brought to life through stories that stick.

Tyler HesterFounder and CEO, Educators Thriving and Vice Principal, Michelle Obama School

This is a distinctive, thoughtful and meaningful contribution to our system and our understanding of what works. Steve and his colleagues have built a brilliant school in Torquay and this is a generous insight into how they have done it. I would recommend wholeheartedly.

Ed VainkerManaging Director, Reach Foundation and co-founder and former Principal of Reach Academy Feltham

Born from one of the most transformed schools I have seen, this is a detail-rich guide to exceptional school leadership. Steve combines passion, precision and purpose to equip leaders to create meaningful transformation in their own schools.

Tim RutherfordDeputy CEO, Ted Wragg Multi-Academy Trust

Everyone Succeeds brings rare clarity to school leadership. By identifying and codifying the behaviours that make the biggest difference, Steve gives leaders a practical framework they can use to improve their impact every day. It is a book leaders will return to repeatedly as they refine their practice and develop others around them.

Kieran EarleyExecutive Coach and Former CEO, The British School in the Netherlands

Steve’s work is a gamechanger as it provides a systematic process for leadership improvement harmonising research with lived experience. You are never alone with a leadership problem as the inbuilt coaching framework and tips will provide energy and support.

Tim HarrisHeadteacher, Colyton Grammar School

The Everyone Succeeds Leadership Cycle: Diagnose → Learn → Lead

Diagnose

Understand your leadership profile so you can focus on the behaviours that will make the greatest difference. Use the Self Diagnostic or 360 Diagnostic to gain clear insight into how your leadership is experienced.

Diagnose

Learn

Explore the 54 leadership behaviours through the book, workbook and online tools. This stage builds the insight and understanding that underpin leadership improvement across your school.

Learn

Lead

Turn insight into action using practical tools that support focused goals, routines and progress monitoring, helping improvement become deliberate, sustained and aligned across your school.

Lead

Everyone Succeeds is designed for school leaders at every stage of their journey.

Early career teachers and aspiring leaders

Build clarity about the habits and behaviours that shape great leadership and begin developing them with confidence.

Middle leaders and heads of department

Strengthen the behaviours that improve curriculum leadership, team culture and everyday decision making.

Pastoral leaders, SENDCos and DSLs

Develop the behaviours that drive strong safeguarding, inclusion and pastoral culture while leading teams and supporting complex needs.

Senior leaders

Use the diagnostics, toolkits and planning frameworks to sharpen strategic focus and develop consistent leadership across the school.

Headteachers

Gain a coherent framework for leading culture, strategy and people, with tools you can use to drive improvement across your school.

Executive leaders

Apply a common language of leadership across multiple schools and support leaders to improve through clear structures and shared behaviours.

Bookshelf

The Bookshelf shares ideas from some of the most influential books on leadership, culture, and personal growth, each connected to the Everyone Succeeds framework. These are the latest additions to the Bookshelf.