Felicity is a Trustee of AQA, Chair of their Curriculum and Quality Committee and member of the Council Business Group. She also works as a part-time consultant supporting small Multi Academy Trusts.
Until the end of 2016, Felicity was CEO of the Fylde Coast Academy Trust and the Fylde Coast Teaching School. As a National Leader of Education, she was Executive Principal of Unity Academy and Montgomery High School, Blackpool. From 2004 to 2014 she was Principal of The Blackpool Sixth Form College, taking the college from an Ofsted rating of ‘Satisfactory’ to ‘Outstanding’. She oversaw a significant change to the curriculum including the introduction of a flexible curriculum model that allowed students to mix vocational and academic study, a 50% growth in student recruitment, a rise in results and the numbers accessing HE, a rebrand of the college, and a rebuild of 80% of the estate at a cost of £29 million.