Role Modelling Change in Education
Leadership Conference: 25th to 27th March 2026
Park Hyatt, Vienna, Austria
The Malvern College family now educates nearly 5,000 students. That growth reflects the fundamental principle that lasting change in education happens when leaders collaborate.
This March in Vienna, we’re bringing together proprietors, heads, and senior leaders to explore critical education trends reshaping our landscape and examine how the Malvern College Family of Schools Leadership Framework guides our collective response. Key topics to be covered during discussions, presentations, keynotes and workshops can be found below.
We’ll focus on strengthening our shared identity, embedding Malvern Qualities into everyday practice, and evolving Malvern Pathways for the next generation. These are the practical foundations that unite our schools and empower our students.
In collaborating with the Malvernian Society we aim to bring together members of the OM Alumni community to be a part of this event.
This conference, held at the prestigious Park Hyatt Vienna, ensures we all share what works, learn from each other’s experience, and bring insights and expertise together to collectively shape tomorrow’s role models today.
To register you intention to attend the event please complete the registration form. Further information about the event, agenda, recruitment fair, hotels recommendations, and travel will be populated below in due course.
Conference Themes
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Leadership & CollaborationShare strategies and strengthen partnerships across our family |
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Innovation & DisruptionNavigate tomorrow’s challenges through collective insights |
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Impact & IdentityShape what it means to be part of the Malvern College family |
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Malvern PathwaysCollaborate on evolving our distinctive educational approach |
Discussions, Presentations & Topics to include:
- Year In Review: Sharing & celebrating the successes across the family
- Innovating for Tomorrow: What will the future of education look like at the Malvern of tomorrow?
- Staff Malvernisation – Exploring the induction processes and ongoing professional development for all new staff and further supporting current staff in their growth as role models
- Measuring What Matters: Data-driven insights into academic, pastoral, and operational success.
- Pathways to Leadership: Co-designing, alongside an external organisation, a shared MCFS leadership framework
- Amplifying Our Story: Alumni engagement, leveraging alumni and brand storytelling
- Branding the Future: Strengthening the Malvern identity across the globe
- MCFS Recruitment Strategy: Review of recruitment processes (including TES Subscription) across the schools and forward planning to events and processes for 2026-27 and beyond.
- Progress against 2025’s conference agreements
- 2027 Conference Planning
Keynote Speaker: Kester Brewin - "Innovating for Tomorrow"
Kester Brewin is an author, and Associate Director at the Institute for the Future of Work, a London research and development institute focused on how new technologies are shaping work and working lives. He taught Mathematics across a number of London schools for twenty-five years, and has written regularly for the national education press, as well as writing and presenting for BBC Radio.
His latest book is God-like: a 500-year history of Artificial Intelligence in myths, machines, monsters, and is a clarion call for, against technological determinism, a ‘re-encounter-culture’ to sustain a future based on human flourishing.
Guest Speakers: Brave Generation Academy
Brave Generation Academy (BGA) is a global education organisation pioneering a hybrid, learner‑centred model designed to prepare young people for life beyond traditional schooling. Operating through a network of physical learning hubs and online provision, BGA combines internationally recognised curricula (including British, American and national pathways) with personalised, self‑directed learning supported by Learning Coaches rather than conventional classroom teaching.
Their model rethinks the role of teachers, time, space and assessment, placing flexibility, real‑world relevance and learner agency at the centre of education. BGA also works in partnership with schools and organisations worldwide to embed this approach locally, offering practical insight into how future teaching models can be scaled without losing quality or identity.
Leadership Conference Agenda
Conference Venue
This year’s Malvern College Family of Schools Leadership Conference will be held at the Park Hyatt Vienna.
Park Hyatt Vienna is situated in Vienna’s new Goldenes Quartier at the square Am Hof and occupies a listed 100-year-old building that formerly served as an Austrian Hungarian Monarchy Bank and forms part of Vienna’s First District, listed as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO.
Located in the heart of the most exclusive shopping district in Vienna, just steps away from the celebrated fashion houses and boutiques of Kohlmarkt, the hotel is walking distance from the city’s most important sights, historical monuments and museums.
Take a tour of Park Hyatt Vienna
Accommodation in Vienna
The Malvern College International UK based team will be staying at the Palais Rudolf while other options recommended by the travel agent include Le Meridien or a little further from the conference venue and palace, Mercure Grand Hotel and Austria Trend Hotels.
