Matt Isherwood

Formerly the Director of Estates for a leading Academy Trust, Matt brings to Barker over a decade of ‘client-side’ experience in educational property management and capital project delivery. Working with staff and colleagues across the Trust from the “C-Suite” level to the operational Facility Management teams he developed and established a variety of strategic and tactical approaches to support the Trust portfolio of schools to provide property assurance, capital works programmes and business resilience. Most recently leading the Trusts response to the “Environmental Sustainability & Energy Efficiency” challenge, a challenge that was put into sharp relief with the escalation of the energy prices. Today Matt will share with you his first-hand journey to put in place tactics to reduce energy consumption, reduce green house gas emissions and measures to reduce the risk of future energy price inflation..