After formative years growing up on the western coastal edge of Australia, Adam emigrated to the UK over 35 years ago. Having attended Bradfield College, Adam read Geography at Durham University before starting a career in Sales and Marketing. Quickly realising that education was his true vocation he moved into the educational sector, teaching Geography at Bradfield before becoming Head of Department there and gaining his teaching qualification from Cambridge University. He then moved on to Oakham School, running one of the largest Geography departments in the UK and coached several cricket and golf teams to national finals, having achieved national success whilst at University in both sports too. Nine years as a Housemaster followed, before the move to the Glasgow Academy as Deputy Rector for three years north of the border. At his happiest on a windswept links with a 2 iron in hand or up in the mountains with a map and compass, Scotland was a wonderful experience with his wife (a medic) and three children. He has been Head at Lord Wandsworth, a co-educational boarding and day school of 650 pupils set in 1200 acres of Hampshire countryside, for 6 years, and one which has won National awards in Wellbeing and Mental Health initiatives and received recognition for their Character Education programme. It is a Foundation school, whose original purpose was to provide an education for children who had lost the support of one or both parents. This ethos remains at the heart of the school. Adam has a passion for Pupil Voice, Character Education, the all-round nature of schools, and in ensuring leadership for all. He is also a governor at Gordonstoun and has been Chair of HMC South Central.