I support organisations to navigate strategic, cultural and operational challenges and to make a bigger impact. I use my leadership experience from across the commercial and not for profit sectors to help organisations and individuals thrive.

Services

Strategy

• Defining organisational purpose
• Developing purpose-led strategies, theories of change and projects to deliver meaningful value 
• Developing marketing, communications and partnerships strategies
• Supporting charities on fundraising strategy, channels and integrated delivery
• Co-creation of organisational values
• Identifying and crafting opportunities for philanthropists and organisations to support relevant causes

Delivery

• Campaign leadership and evaluation
• Introducing and brokering cross-sector partnerships
• Social Impact programme design
• Advising on the set up of corporate or personal foundations or alternative philanthropic or legacy plans
• Assessing funding opportunities, bid writing, authoring evaluations and impact reports
• Designing grant programmes and overseeing grant applications processes
• Advising on set up and dissolution of charities and foundations
• Leading charity governance reviews
• Advising on organisational structures and coaching through change
• Interim leadership roles
• Short term projects and long term advisory roles
• Facilitating meetings and workshops
• Face to face and online coaching for individuals and teams 

My experience

I’ve held leadership roles within commercial marketing, and have been a charity CEO within corporate foundations and standalone charities. Clients say they particularly value my understanding of both the corporate and non-profit sectors.

I have a track record of developing strategy based on insight, driving transformation, and delivering national programmes and campaigns. After 15 years working in commercial marketing I was appointed to the newly created Marketing and Fundraising Director for BBC Children in Need, where I led a rebrand and increased income by 22%. I subsequently joined the BBC Marketing leadership team and worked in various central and divisional marketing roles. As Founder CEO of Global’s Make Some Noise, the in-house charity of a media group, I established broadcast appeals, a fundraising events portfolio and a grants strategy. An expanded remit saw me take on the broader Social Impact agenda. I was instrumental in setting up a new secondary school sponsored by the business, helping to level the playing field for routes into the media industry, and led a 5 year youth employment programme commissioned by the National Lottery Community Fund. I was also CEO of a social mobility charity where I led the turnaround from a significant deficit to surplus, resetting strategy, culture, structure and processes.

My clients include charities and companies, most recently in sport, education, health, travel and media.