Charlie Naylor

Lead Advisor, Head Coach, and BC Strategic Consultant

Charlie Naylor builds capacity in school district leaders and teams to embed mental wellbeing into their district’s culture, priorities, and structures in ways that reflect their specific context. He does this through developing and executing curriculum and training as part of a national coaching and consulting program for school districts that are ready to move from data to action on the topic of K-12 workplace wellbeing. To advance awareness of the need for greater investment in K-12 workplace wellbeing, Charlie also supports a projected BC-based study analyzing the prevalence and costs of workplace ill-being in the education sector. He also provides strategy support for BC stakeholder engagement activities to build stakeholder relationships and align efforts.

Charlie has recently coached three B.C. school districts to embed mental wellbeing into district priorities, structures, practices, cultures, and resource flows. As a seasoned facilitator, Charlie has led workplace wellbeing focus groups with a wide variety of employee groups in B.C. school districts, helping them develop targeted workplace wellbeing plans and develop solutions informed by evidence and employees' perspectives. As an affiliated scholar with Simon Fraser University and during his time as Senior Researcher at the British Columbia Teachers' Federation (BCTF), Charlie has researched and written extensively about workplace wellbeing in K-12 education, including approaches that involve leadership, management, and unions. He has worked as Coach to three B.C. school district teams addressing staff wellbeing.

Charlie taught in secondary school grades in Sheffield, U.K., and unemployed youth in Melbourne, Australia. He completed graduate studies at Simon Fraser University (M.A.) and the University of British Columbia (Ph.D.).