Animo Leadership develops confident and courageous leaders so they can create change for themselves, their teams and the world around them.Animo is a Latin word that represents courage, inspiration, tenacity and zest. It refers to strength in the face of adversity. For us it represents our role, as coaches and facilitators, to support you to step into your power, embrace new challenges and to lead with greater strength and confidence.With a collective 30 years of experience working in the third sector, Kate and Maria first joined forces in 2018 after becoming accredited coaches with the International Coaching Federation. They have delivered a wide range of tailored workshops, leadership development and one-to-one coaching in partnership with organisations including Brook, Royal College of General Practitioners, the Globe, Women into Construction, the School of Social Entrepreneurs and the Wellcome Trust.

Development and delivery of youth voice programmes.

• Management of the Youth Engagement Team at the British Youth Council developing and delivering high quality, engaging and youth led programmes influencing powerful and sustainable change across a variety of sectors including with NHS England and Improvement and the Bank of England. • Advocating for youth voice particularly across the health and finance sector setting up new opportunities for young people to engage with key areas of strategic work.• Raised £267,000 in 6 months in 2020 and strengthened the British Youth Council’s portfolio of youth engagement programmes. • Developed work with strategic partners, securing funding for additional delivery and brought on a new full time staff member. • Business development and partnership building across the third sector, youth sector and health. • Relationship management of senior stakeholders including funders and partner organisations. • Implementing a theory of change for programmes of work and developing new monitoring and evaluation frameworks to measure impact. • Designated safeguarding and risk management lead ensuring safe and supportive programme delivery.

International Coaching Federation approved Coach working with a transformational coaching model to support a diverse portfolio of clients. Delivery of a range of leadership programmes and workshops across the third sector.

Leadership of National Citizen Service across the Midlands delivering 28 residential youth leadership and social impact programmes over 10 weeks with a multi-tier team and 158 community partners impacting over 1600 15 – 17 year olds.

Promotion into the Senior Programme Manager role from May until September for the delivery period of National Citizen Service. Managing large multi-tier team and leading on delivery of a safe and quality programme across Coventry and Warwickshire.

Championing outstanding start up customer service and ensure all program activity is focused on helping Entrepreneurs win.Oversee the curriculum program during the Accelerator including up to 250 internal sessions for startups, ranging from keynote speakers to smaller educational workshops for very specific audiences, plus 3-5 high-level public events to showcase our startups to all potential stakeholders of MassChallenge UK.Work with the MassChallenge UK team to maximize the connectivity between the 90 startups and the rest of the MassChallenge UK community (including mentors, sponsors, supporters, alumni, etc.).Line manage the Events team and Start up Services team.Ensure clear communication and co-ordination between all key functions of the UK team and relevant HQ teams.Drive and oversee the evaluation of curriculum/events leading team learnings.To work closely with Partnerships and Communication to ensure alignment and professional execution of wider MassChallenge UK strategic goals.To influence and support HQ with executing global expansion plans.

Contract manager responsible for all London programme delivery, residential planning, content development, budget responsibility and financial forecasting, monitoring and evaluation and reporting to key funders including Comic Relief and Children in NeedVolunteer recruitment, training and management for Pop Up Talent, a Big Lottery funded employability programme.Facilitation and Leadership Coach for Great Ormond Street Hospital Youth ForumGroup and one to one coaching for 12 – 35 year oldsYouth engagement across all programmesBusiness development – building networks and partnerships across London, South Wales and Birmingham Training:- LEAP Working with Challenging Behaviour – December 2014- Youth at Risk Coaching Training – November 2014- Kaizen Engagement Training – May 2014- The Change Foundations Transformational Leadership Programme – August 2014- Safeguarding Training – March 2014- Changemakers Coaching Training – April 2013- The Change Leadership Foundation – “Being” Coaches and Leaders – January 2013

Fulfilment of a short term role with responsibilities including office management, initiation of new marketing strategies (including set up of Google Analytics and HTML emails through Mail Chimp), database cleansing and personal assistance to the Directors.

Development of Liteclub, a government funded Environmental program designed to reduce the carbon footprint of sports clubs.Responsibilities included the development of the programme from concept to the meeting of the first two major milestones, research into new fundraising opportunities and assistance in preparing pitches to Trusts and Foundations, recruitment and relationship manager of the first 60 clubs into the programme, implementation including management of budget, transport, logistics and stock control, data collection for monitoring and evaluation, supplier relationship development and management of three part time staff.

Start up business working on AXA's direct marketing strategy and launch of a new financial services product. Role included market segmentation and customer profiling, production of new marketing literature, design of new CRM system, copy writing for new website creation and analysis of customer interfaces.

Jointly led, coordinated and implemented a child sponsorship program and water management program in South India.Coordinated a team of 10 UK volunteers on a 2 week volunteer programme.

Advisor on UK Environmental compliance legislation. Role demanded exceptional customer service and the ability to simplify complex legislation. Responsibilities included Account Management to large international companies, sales, business development and the delivery of presentations and workshops at national seminars .

Responsible for reception, events management, travel bookings, office maintenance, record management and training.