Yorkshire and The Humber Regional Conference: Exploring the depths of executive functioning
Join us for a day exploring the depths of Executive Functioning where attendees will gain practical knowledge and evidence-informed strategies to support genuine inclusive practice within their settings.
Our specialist speakers will delve deeper into the key areas within executive functioning, sharing their knowledge and expertise to develop knowledge and understanding around current research and evidence-based strategies that attendees can take away and use across mainstream primary and secondary settings.
Andy Baker has over 20 years of experience in understanding behaviour. With a background in psychology and psychotherapy, Andy is the Managing Director of Able Training Support Ltd and a specialist in behaviour, mindset, and therapeutic practice within education and care settings. He is the author of three books, including the number one bestselling The Adaptive Caregiver Model, The Momentum Room and Targeting the Positive with Behaviours That Challenge.
Andy is also the creator of the Able Target System (ATS) - a mindset-led, integrative therapeutic framework that combines Positive Behaviour Support, trauma-informed practice, and cognitive approaches to help professionals better understand and respond to behaviour.
He is the host of the Able to Care podcast, where he has interviewed leading voices such as Sarah Naish, Karen Treisman, Fatima Whitbread, and Teepa Snow. Andy also serves on the board of directors for the Institute of Conflict Management and contributes to the education and social care committee.
His work focuses on helping schools and organisations move beyond behaviour management towards deeper understanding, improved relationships, and sustainable change in both staff practice and outcomes for children.
Andrew Baker
Jagdish is an educational, child and family psychologist with over 30 years' experience of working in education, firstly as a primary school teacher, then as a local authority educational psychologist and, from 2006, in private practice. Jagdish believes that connection, collaboration and co-construction is key to successful partnerships and a process of change, whether at the systemic or individual level. She uses a strengths based and solution orientated approach when supporting colleagues to support the families they work with. In a world where time for reflection is increasingly viewed as a luxury, she advocates a slow cooker approach to applying psychology to empower sustainable change, rather than quick fixes.
More about Jagdish's professional experience, practice and latest collaborations can be found on her LinkedIn page at https://www.linkedin.com/in/jagdishbarn-psychologist-expert-witness/
