Change leadership coach, trainer and mentor. Strategy consultant, insight consultant. Takes a 'people-first' approach, championing human skills for all my clients and the people around them.

Part of a community of consultants with three decades of experience serving the not-for-profit sector. Providing consultancy, advice and accompaniment on embedding change projects within the culture of an organisation for lasting change *Business plans for a new strategy*. *Setting up new teams or services* *Change after a restructure* *Workshops/Training/Leadership briefings* *Mentoring*

Voluntary role on the Board of this dynamic and forward-looking charity that provides a first-class full school and vocational education to 20,000 children from the very poorest families in the world. We raise funds in the UK to send to the programmes in 7 countries.

Setting up an evaluation team to coordinate service evaluation and insight across the House.

Member of the IoF tech committee supporting (voluntary position) charities with the latest thinking in how technology can help fundraising operations and support fundraising strategy.

From tweaking an existing community fundraising product right up to a completely new organisational strategy - I support organisations to improve their bottom line results through applying business research and analysis for dynamic change. * Understanding your market - what you do and who else does it, and your opportunities to operate* Researching your audiences - who your core supporters are, your potential supporters and how to reach them* Planning the business - supporting… Show more From tweaking an existing community fundraising product right up to a completely new organisational strategy - I support organisations to improve their bottom line results through applying business research and analysis for dynamic change. * Understanding your market - what you do and who else does it, and your opportunities to operate* Researching your audiences - who your core supporters are, your potential supporters and how to reach them* Planning the business - supporting you to put the findings into practice with a practical plan with all the nuts and bolts.I have helped organisations through strategic change by bringing in research and business planning. Connect your strategy to your ambitions to bring about a new way of doing things. Current clients include Mind, The Lord Mayor's Appeal. Tate. Show less

Improving fundraising results by helping you know your audience and your market. At Insight-ful I support organisations by connecting their ambitions to business strategy. Data of all types is essential to this, but people are at the heart of my work; helping them generate, interpret and use that data is the key to true insight, innovation and impact.

I set up a new team that supports fundraising, campaigning and communications for the Supporter and Community Partnerships Department with data. The value the team adds is not just in the data we provide for individual products or teams. It comes from understanding different sets of data together and how those data inform and drive decisions on business performance through a cycle of planning, measures, analysis and review. Bringing together qualitative and quantitative… Show more I set up a new team that supports fundraising, campaigning and communications for the Supporter and Community Partnerships Department with data. The value the team adds is not just in the data we provide for individual products or teams. It comes from understanding different sets of data together and how those data inform and drive decisions on business performance through a cycle of planning, measures, analysis and review. Bringing together qualitative and quantitative research, analysis and evaluation alongside the business planning cycle informs decision-making on our brand, our audience research, innovation, project portfolio, business systems and many other strategic and operational matters, inside and outside our department. Insight has brought in a culture of respect for and attention to the objective findings that the research provides. The functions that I set up include: - Coordinating internal and external data to provide evidence for decision-making, mapping the market, identifying market opportunities, analysing and enhancing performance.- Developing a toolkit of Insight practice - from qualitative research methods to data analysis to target setting, to performance indicators, to evaluations, business systems and training. - Improving business processes and systems including use of our main CRM database, internal business partnership networks and tools for research and analysis. Show less

Research for the Fundraising Strategy team which supports the fundraising division. External scanning and benchmarking, position and impact papers, external and internal fundraising consultations and research coordination, managing the ethical funding procedures and practice, discrete fundraising research projects.Innovation project.

Help with information planning and management on new Raiser's edge database

Prospect Research for the Major Donor team. Development of systems and processes: pipeline management, income projection and reports, fundraiser account handling management, profile management, Raiser's Edge database management and data protection, resources management; Prospect research: prospect identification, network mapping, predictive modelling, wealth estimates, ranking, profiling, briefings.

Events Fundraiser with The Children's Societyuntil February 2008Then Executive on the Development team (Major Donor) until June 2008.

September-December 06Voluntary Corporate Fundraiser for Crisis (London)The charity helps single homeless people to build social skills and reintegrate society. Volunteer corporate and trusts fundaiser for Médecins du Monde UK.

• Language course management, design and implementation.• English and French for adult, professional, non-native speakers at professional training centres. • Teaching Business skills in English to French and International students in Higher Education, Business schools • French/English translation. • Ran own English training/translating company for 10 years, employing between 3 and 8 part-timers at any one time.• Administrator for French Theatre Company