Skilled housing professional with over 29 years' experience in social housing. I am passionate about delivering great outcomes for customers, working with residents and colleagues to ensure the customer voice is gathered, heard and acted upon. I am positive, enthusiastic and focused. I coach and support teams to improve services and work together to deliver a great customer experience. I am excited to bring my skills and knowledge to create think together consultancy, working with organisations to connect the full potential of insight, reflection and learning to improve customer experience and services. Our model and approach can be used to deliver a wide range of outcomes and activities – creating actionable insights from organisational data, review and create service delivery models and approaches, policy and strategy work, customer engagement approach and models to crisis management. At think together we bring 50 years collective knowledge and experience of the social housing sector and understanding of regulatory and legal requirements. Professionally qualified and Chartered Members of the Chartered Institute of Housing. Our experience in senior management roles in a large, diverse housing provider has given us direct and up to date experience of the current social housing environment. We know the challenges the sector currently faces and the impact this is having on customers, colleagues, and organisations. We can deliver practical interventions on how to engage with customers, build trust and hear the whole customer's voice. We will ensure the customer voice is championed, heard, and acted upon. We collaboratively transform services which deliver excellent customer experiences and positive outcomes for residents.
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Co-FounderThink TogetherSurbiton, Gb -
Co-FounderThink Together Oct 2023 - PresentSouth East, GbThink together, an exciting new consultancy that supports organisations to connect the full potential of insight, reflection and learning to improve customer experience and services. We help organisations to: Connect their customer and organisation data to create actionable insights. Understand and positively apply regulatory requirements for compliance and customer success. Bring colleagues, customers, stakeholders, and partners together to drive collective action. Deliver an approach that fosters customer engagement and trust for colleagues and customers. Demonstrate they are hearing and acting on all their customers' voices. -
Head Of Customer ExperiencePa Housing 2019 - Jun 2023London, London, GbA registered provider of social housing offering more than 23,000 homes across the Midlands, London and the South East.✓ Led the creation of a new team of 22 colleagues, with 3 direct reports.✓ Budget responsibility for £800K.✓ Identified service challenges of customer experience, complaint handling and resident engagement.✓ Fostered cooperation to change within the wider leadership team.✓ Prioritised the customer’s voice and turned insights into shared actions through bi-weekly updates.✓ Communicated drivers for satisfaction and shared the customer voice with SMT, Board and colleagues.✓ Actively reviewed impact analysis reports while tracking actions to improve service performance. -
Head Of IncomeParagon 2013 - 2019✓ Scaled a team of 21 to focus on rent collection and supporting customers to maximise their income. ✓ Empowered the team to build a 91% positive feedback score by creating a fair income recovery. ✓ Prioritised arrears and recovery with a welfare benefits income generation of £1 million per annum.✓ Achieved net rent arrears of 2% and gross: 3.6%,✓ Analysed uncovered root causes of debt and interpreted data from sources for effective resolutions.✓ Considered options for recovery and provided external resources to external debt charities/grants.
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Welfare Reform Project LeadParagon 2012 - 2013✓ Enabled change through the delivery of a “Wise Money” campaign.✓ “Wise Money” campaign prepared residents for welfare reform.✓ Collaborated with stakeholders for a welfare reform campaign that won a national award.
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Housing Manager (Income & Tenancy Support)Paragon 2007 - 2012✓ Led a newly formed team specialising in income/ tenancy support/ sheltered housing. ✓ Reduced rent arrears at one point to less than 1% by engaging with residents and tackling debt early.✓ Led team and project to achieve the accreditation of the Code of Practice for sheltered housing.
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Service Development ManagerElmbridge Housing Trust Limited 2005 - 2007 -
Housing ManagerElmbridge Housing Trust Limited 2000 - 2005 -
Team Leader & Housing OfficerElmbridge Borough Council 1996 - 2000Esher, Gb -
Housing OfficerAccord Housing Association 1995 - 1996West Bromwich, England, Gb
Esther Clarson Education Details
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De Montfort UniversityBa (Hons) History & Politics -
London South Bank UniversityPg Dip In Housing Studies
Frequently Asked Questions about Esther Clarson
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Esther Clarson works for Think Together
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Esther Clarson's current role is Co-Founder.
What schools did Esther Clarson attend?
Esther Clarson attended De Montfort University, London South Bank University.
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Esther Clarson's colleagues are Puggioni Edgar.
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