I am an accomplished change leader, programme manager and fundraiser with ten years experience in the third sector and a track record of high quality delivery in demanding work. I'm an intelligent and dynamic team player recognised for my leadership skills, ability to build effective relationships and manage a diverse range of stakeholders. I love ambiguity and complexity - bringing a personal and enthusiastic style to challenging projects. I am proactive and dynamic with excellent communication and facilitation skills.
Founding member of Rhymes with Orange
The biggest and most fun spoken word night in London - (orangesrhyme.com), a night designed to get people into performance poetry. We had a sell-out run at Edinburgh Fringe in 2015; watch this space for 2016.
Co-Director of Wordplay
Our fast paced sessions will breathe life and enthusiasm into your team.
We use writing, performing and whole lot in between to bring teams together in a new and exciting way.
Career Potted History:
Currently working at Macmillan Cancer Support leading a services change programme. I am passionate about leading change effectively and an expert in working in ambiguity across complex organisational projects.
I previously worked on strategy development for High Value fundraising, working on corporate partnerships, major donors and trusts - as well as with volunteer committees.
During the first few years of my career, I gained experience in PR, sales and new business both in the commercial sector and in the charitable sector - at an agency, a private business and at Macmillan Cancer Support and the NSPCC.
Work history
Director
London, United KingdomFreelance
Fed up of piles of post-its and stale pastries? Your meetings damper than a sponge in the rain?
Let Wordplay Sessions unlock your potential and give your team the most fun, creative day they can imagine.
Breathe life and enthusiasm into your team and unlock their creative power through inspirational and fun team building sessions.
By learning the techniques of the Creative Process, your team will discover their creativity and build confidence in themselves and each other. Involving writing, performing and a whole lot in between, we will give you and your team the skills to bring your work to life.
Wordplay offers you the chance to see a new side to your colleagues and we promise everyone will leave the room a closer, more creatively-engaged team
Senior Project Manager
London, United KingdomFull Time
This is a role leading a complex transformational project with a direct team of six and matrix teams across the UK.
Objective of the work
Macmillan spends over £100m per year on cancer services delivered through partners like the NHS and other health and social care providers. I am responsible for leading the design of the processes, systems, tools, and learning and support offer required to transform the effectiveness of our partnership working. Ultimately this is a cultural and behavioural change programme enabled through process and systems for the hundreds of staff employed across the UK to do this work.
Core Capabilities:
- Lead through complexity and ambiguity, with the ability to stay focused on project outcomes.
- Hold detail to the level of individual role impact alongside the organisational vision and strategy
- Influence at a senior level
- Take a pragmatic and solution oriented approach to delivery whilst maintaining ambition.
- Gain credibility with subject specialists in their fields of expertise.
- Collaborate with a huge range of stakeholders during high pressure project delivery.
- Translate relationship driven activity into detailed process design and clear systems requirements.
- Facilitate whole programmes of design and strategy development workshops.
- Manage and hold to account senior stakeholders through project discipline and strong governance.
- Create a learning and support offer which shifts the culture and behaviour of the organisation.
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Skills
- Facilitation
- Business Strategy
- Corporate Fundraising
- Programme Management
- Project Management
- Coaching
- Writing
- Charity Fundraising
- Presentation Skills
- Change Management
Education
Law
- Oxford, United Kingdom
A Bachelor of Arts in Jurisprudence (Law)