Mark Steed

Mark S. Steed has spent his career working in top independent schools both in the UK and Overseas and recently hung up his gown after 22 years of School headship.

He now runs Steed Education (steededucation.com), an international educational consultancy committed to supporting school leaders. Steed Education provides project management services for key strategic initiatives, such as school mergers, opening new campuses and developing digital strategy; as well as undertaking IT and cyber-risk audits and implementation programmes.

Mark worked in the UK as a Teacher, Head of Department, and Boarding Housemaster prior to his two senior leaderships roles as Headmaster of Kelly College in Devon; and then as Principal of the Berkhamsted Schools Group. He moved aboard in September 2015 to be Director of JESS, Dubai, before moving to Hong Kong in September 2019 to be the Principal and CEO of Kellett School. He returned to the UK in the summer of 2023.

Mark has degrees from Cambridge and Nottingham Universities and from Ashridge-Hult Business School where he researched ‘Alternative Business models for Secondary Schooling’. He has a particular interest in how new technologies can be used in education and chaired the UK Independent Schools Council Digital Strategy Group from 2007 to 2015. He recently completed the Harvard course on Cybersecurity: Managing Risk in the Information Age.