About me
I am an effective systemic social change agent, entrepreneur, coach and campaigner. Since co-founding the Graduate Journal of Social Science whilst studying charisma and leadership in cults at the LSE (17 years ago), I have been interested in using innovation to tackle social justice. I have spent over 15 years working in the not-for-profit sector, helping larger charities build campaigning movements for positive change.
After I undertook the Clore Social leadership programme in 2011, I retrained as a systemic coach and established my own social enterprise, the Social Change Agency. We take a non-sector specific approach to building movements for disruption, creating space for new innovation, stronger networks and resilient organisations. We work with a wide variety of organisations, bringing together talent and insight from a range of associates to solve social problems.
In addition to my non-executive roles at the MS Society and do-it.org, I coach and mentor charities, social entrepreneurs and social change agents.
I also do improv.
Projects credited in
- Leaders with social heart: 100 creative changemakersCelebrating social responsibility is at the heart of what we do, so we've partnered with Squarespace – whose mission is to inspire people with creative ideas to succeed – to shine a light on 100 influential luminaries from art, technology, charity, design, business and more that are working tirelessly to make our world a better place. To highlight these organisations, we asked 10 creative changemakers to each nominate 10 people behind inspiring brands, products and movements with amazing social
- Learning the lessons of effective movement building in response to humanitarian crisis.Created in late 2015, Help Refugees is the largest refugee focused movement in the UK and now the largest distributor of aid to refugee camps in Europe. Impressed by its effectiveness and meteoric rise, the Paul Hamlyn Foundation commissioned research to help it and other agencies learn from its success. Using the framework of the movement building canvas, we interviewed Help Refugees staff, volunteers and funders, alongside comms and social media analysis and network development in order captur3
- Movement building for high growth startupsWAYRA, the innovation hub for telecoms giant Telefonica, works to identify, develop, promote and scale UK-based start-ups. Following a partnership with UnLtd, we were asked to design a support programme tailored to the needs of social entrepreneurs, combining business strategy and movement building techniques to accelerate their growth and impact. We designed and delivered a six-month programme of support and coaching to a cohort of 13 ‘tech for good’ startups, including Hubbub, Lingoing and Th7
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Skills
- Creative Direction
- Strategic Planning
- Entrepreneur
- Coach
- Social Entrepeneurship