Mr Tom Goodenough
Tom is a former headteacher who, alongside leading on teacher training for a multi-academy trust in Oxfordshire, acts as a consultant and strategic advisor across multiple sectors. With over 20 years’ experience of education, public health, social care, and criminal justice, he helps organisations build inclusive, trauma-informed systems that support vulnerable young people and reduce harm.
Tom specialises in multi-agency collaboration - designing joined-up approaches that address complex needs like youth violence, neurodiversity, and social disadvantage. His work bridges sectors and translates policy into practice.
Consultancy/Services Offered
- Keynote speaking and seminar delivery
- Trauma-informed policy and practice
- Multi-agency strategy and systems design
- Inclusion and culture change
- Therapeutic and alternative provision
- Youth violence prevention
- Bystander culture and behavioural change
- Strategic links to public health, policing, SEND, social care and community enterprise
Selected Projects
- Regular keynote speaker on trauma-informed leadership, building protective factors in communities, violence reduction, and multi-agency collaboration
- Developed a multi-year ‘School Navigator’ mentoring programme for young people at risk of exclusion and violence, in partnership with Thames Valley Violence Reduction Unit
- Designed a trust-wide inclusion model for 28 schools, focused on mentoring and therapeutic support
- Delivered trauma-informed training to over 1,000 professionals across education
- Produced interventions, frameworks and online training to support bystander culture and reduce harm.
Tom's Website: https://www.vypaworks.com
