Business @ Breakfast, our successful monthly networking meeting, brings together staff from the School of Management and professionals from Bath, Bristol and the surrounding areas for informative talks, networking and discussion around best practices and any issues facing businesses.
This event is suitable for:
- Company Directors
- Senior Managers
- Founders
- Individuals responsible for learning and development/HR within a business
- Talent Directors
We want our future sessions to be guided by you, focusing on the topics that you feel would be beneficial for your business. Please let us know what you would like to hear about at subsequent events.
This month's discussion
Leadership Lessons from Outside the Education System
What to expect
This is not a talk about education policy. It’s a leadership session told through raw, human stories - where young people paid the price for leadership systems that no longer work, and what happened when leadership changed.
Drawing on four leadership moments drawn from the sharp edge of education, Jonno takes the audience through situations where command-and-control leadership broke down and what happened when leaders pivoted to connection, agency and relevance instead.
The session blends powerful storytelling, live demonstrations, real outcomes and practical insight. Expect moments that are uncomfortable, funny, challenging and unexpectedly hopeful.
Takeaways from the session
The audience will leave with three clear leadership lessons that translate far beyond education; into business, parenting and organisational leadership:
- why connection must come before compliance
- how giving people agency creates responsibility
- why motivation follows relevance, not pressure
Each lesson is grounded in lived experience, not theory.
Who should attend?
This is a session for leaders who sense that the old ways of motivating people no longer work - and want to know what does.
Our speaker
Jonno leads Bath Rugby Foundation’s Alternative Learning Hub, working with young people the education system has failed.
From inner-city Manchester to Bath and Wiltshire, Jonno has seen the same leadership failures play out in very different settings - regardless of funding, inspection frameworks or intent. His work focuses on re-engaging young people who have stopped showing up, rebuilding trust, and creating pathways into work and independence.