Tim Barrett works with schools and universities to develop the skills young people need most.
A 10 to 15 minute online assessment of how each person works and leads, on five dimensions. It is not a personality test, and there is no right or wrong result.
Power: Flat
You prefer a collaborative and egalitarian approach, valuing equal input from all team members rather than deferring to authority.
Drag a dot to place yourself.
Your archetype is where you lead from most naturally. The skill is knowing when to flex.
Every seat comes with a workbook that follows the Global TeamLEAD curriculum. Staff teams work through all four modules. Students take TeamWORK, TeamLEAD and TeamNORMS.
How you work on each of the five dimensions, and how your team works.
You leave with a common language for difference.
Your own leadership style, and the styles in your team.
You leave with a sense of when to flex, and what is missing.
Psychological safety and intellectual honesty, and why a team needs both.
You leave with a clearer picture of trust in your team.
Ways of working that everyone understands and can keep.
You leave with norms your team writes, tests and keeps.
Pages from the participant workbooks
Prices for schools and universities. One seat is one person’s assessment and profile.
$49per seat
How a person works on the five dimensions. For anyone who works in a team, students included.
$69per seat
Everything in the Workstyle Profile, plus the person’s leadership archetype and guidance on when to flex. This is the PRISM® Leadership Profile.
The assessment meets privacy guidelines. No student email addresses or last names are recorded, and teachers give out access codes through the school or university’s own system.
Ask about seatsThree ways to bring this into a school or university. Each one starts with a free 15-minute conversation.
Tim speaks to schools and conferences on why cultural intelligence and global leadership are skills for the future, and why capabilities grounded in strong content knowledge are essential in an AI world.
Enquire about a keynoteWorkshops for staff or student teams. Each person completes a PRISM profile, then Tim leads the group through what the results mean for how they work together.
$1,500 plus travel for a three-hour session
Enquire about facilitationStaff train as PRISM Facilitators through Global TeamLEAD, licensed to buy and run the assessments themselves. It covers a one-hour online course, a two-hour online session with Tim, the facilitator manual and a year’s access to staff and student workbooks.
$1,800 per staff member, then assessments at facilitator pricing
Enquire about accreditationCEO and Founder, Beacon Star Global
Director, Somerset Institute
Tim has worked with schools and organisations around the world to develop cultural intelligence, leadership capability and meaningful global partnerships.
A regular national and international speaker, his work has been featured by the Australian Council for Educational Research, The Educator, and leading education podcasts. The global learning programme he led was named best co-curricular programme at the Australian Education Awards in 2019 and 2020.
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Tim is the Director of the Somerset Institute at Somerset College on the Gold Coast, Australia. The work he brings to other schools and universities is based on extensive real-world classroom insights and experience.
Somerset College is a flagship school for PRISM®. Its Institute, a centre for research, partnerships and global leadership, is a partner in designing the PRISM curriculum and participant workbooks.
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Tell Tim about your school or university and what you want to build. He will reply within two business days.
Have a PRISM access code?
Start an assessment (opens in a new tab) Continue where you left off (opens in a new tab)Your email app should open with the message filled in. If it didn’t, copy the text below and send it to info@beacon-star.com.