Getting Behaviour Right - expert panel

Sue Cowley is a presenter, speaker, teacher, trainer and author of more than 30 books on education. A qualified early years teacher, she has worked in early years, primary, secondary and international schools in the UK and overseas. Sue’s international bestseller Getting your Class to Behave has been translated into ten languages and is a set text at universities. Her latest books are The Ultimate Guide to Self-Regulation in the Classroom and The Ultimate Guide to Adaptive Teaching. 

Karl is author of the ‘Action Hero Teacher’. Karl has worked with some of the toughest learners that London has to offer including gang members, youth offenders and excluded students and has come up with practical and effective solutions to help teachers create a learning environment that everyone can thrive in. Karl also facilitates several other NEU webinars.

Emma is director of Those That Can Ltd. She has 26 years of experience as a teacher and leader in UK secondary schools and currently teaches in Alternative Provision. She is a qualified performance coach and DISC profiler and has worked with hundreds of teachers and leaders nationally and internationally. She speaks regularly on school culture and communication, teacher wellbeing, recruitment and retention, she has completed a doctorate on teacher well-being and parenting at Middlesex University and is author of How To Survive in Teaching (Bloomsbury, 2018) and A Little Guide for Teachers: Wellbeing and Self-Care and A Little Guide for Teachers: Engaging Parents and Carers. Her fourth book, Real Lives of Teachers has been published be Sage Education in January 2026 and she has co-edited Questions on Teacher Wellbeing due for publication with Routledge in April 2026. In her spare time, Emma is Mum to two teenagers and two golden retrievers.