#ECISMiddleLeaderCafe: The Glue in the Middle: How Trust Holds Your Team Together: 25 March
#ECISMiddleLeaderCafe: The Glue in the Middle: How Trust Holds Your Team Together: 25 March
25 March 2026, 16:00 London time
Presented by Maymouna Sakho
Being a Teacher and Middle Leader can feel like being caught between a rock and a hard place. You are translating initiatives from Senior Leadership while supporting colleagues who are already stretched thin. This session will focus on the one thing that actually makes leadership a bridge to a smooth relationship with your team: Trust.
When your team trusts you, meetings are shorter, collaboration is honest, and the “Sunday Scaries” are lighter. We’ll focus on strategies to build a culture where your colleagues trust is lived so that the team can be effective and high functioning.
Takeaways for Participants
- The “User Manual” Strategy: Eliminate the guesswork by explicitly defining your leadership style, communication boundaries, and how you’ll show up for your team
- The “Bridge-Builder” Framework: Learn how to translate school-wide mandates into classroom-centered “whys,” moving your team from reluctant compliance to professional commitment.
- The “Vulnerability First” Protocol: Foster a high-trust team by modeling how to own a “failed lesson” or a tough moment, for a culture of collaborative growth.
Maymouna Sakho is a global leader, advocate, and systems builder.
With nearly 20 years of experience in education, 10 within leadership roles, Maymouna currently serves as the Interim Head of Middle School and Accreditation Coordinator at an international school in Jordan. Other leadership roles that Maymouna has served in include Head of Elementary Student Support, K-12 DEI Coordinator, Domain Chair for CIS self-study, and Director of a social services program.
Founder and CEO of Sakho Learning Consultancy, Maymouna is dedicated to supporting and empowering future women leaders, young people, as well as individuals and organizations to innovate through embracing and implementing equitable and inclusive practices and systems.
Maymouna deeply believes in the value of giving back through volunteer work and currently serves on the board of Escape the Shape and is a consortium member of The Guardian Project.
She previously served as the chair of the SENIA International Africa Board. She is a mentor for the AIELOC Aspiring Leaders of Color Program, and is a co-founder and co-trainer for AIELOC’s Learning Support Affinity Group for the Margins, From the Margins with Dr. MaryAnn DeRosa. Additionally, Maymouna serves as co-chair of the MSA Accreditation Evaluation Team Visits and as a member of the CIS Accreditation Evaluation Team Visits.
Outside of her professional life, Maymouna is passionate about spending time with her family and friends, traveling and exploring new countries, cooking, discovering new places to eat, and working with individuals who share a vision and a desire to contribute to the ever-changing education landscape.
Areas of Expertise:
- Student Support Services: auditing/development of SS Programs Leadership, Coaching & Mentoring (Young People, Women and Aspiring Leaders)
- Branding & Entrepreneurship
- Systems thinking and strategic planning
- Small Group and 1:1 workshop on a range of inclusion and equity topics
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- Website: https://sakhoconsultancy.com/