Christopher Kirk is Director of CJK Associates, which provides consultancy support and advice to educational bodies such as the Careers and Enterprise Company, Ambition School Leaders, Reach Academies, and the Ormiston Academy Trust.

Other current roles include acting as an Adviser for OPERA - a charity supporting unemployed youth into work - and a Member of the Advisory Group for Getting Ahead London – a London school leadership initiative.

Previous experience includes heading the education services division of GEMS Education which is involved in creating and delivering professional leadership programmes for 15,000 teachers and leaders and managing GEMS’ ten schools in the UK; work for the Department for Education as a Senior Planning Officer for the Funding Agency for Schools in York, the Civil Service Fast Stream, the Dearing Review of Higher Education, and the DFE Standards and Effectiveness Unit.