EdUAE - Issue 28 - Schools Out Issue 2026

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“When wellbeing is embedded in the culture, staff feel safe to speak up, problems get fixed, and organisations flourish.”

Katrina Mankani (Left), Director of Positive Education, Fortes Education 

strongly was that a new building didn’t have enough toilets. That might sound trivial, but because wellbeing conversations were already built into our culture, staff felt safe enough to say it and it got fixed. We don’t have to be bureaucratic and tick boxes. That is how an organisation truly flourishes.” Katrina Mankani, Director of Positive Education, Fortes Education

For Katrina Mankani, Director of Positive Education at Fortes Education, flourishing at organisational scale requires going back to first principles. With more than a thousand staff across her schools, the question of how to ensure everyone is genuinely supported is not theoretical. “Staff come to us at different points on Maslow’s hierarchy. We had a survey once where the issue that came up most

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