Morwenna Hart Email & Phone Number

Bristol, England, United Kingdom

In the workplace the most important factor for employee satisfaction, wellbeing and productivity is the relationship with your manager. The last few years have continued to highlight the critical impact of people management and facilitation of teams in a hybrid world. But what is the secret to managing well?I believe where people feel that they matter, real change can take place. I am an accredited facilitator and utilise the Thinking Environment in my approach to enable people’s best thinking in an equal and easeful space. I deliver bespoke support to you, your middle managers and their teams, introducing a range of tools to increase meeting effectiveness, inclusivity and collaborative organisational cultures.When public sector organisations are run by authentic leaders who manage individuals with integrity and facilitate groups with ease, the impact is transformational. I believe these tools are also personally transformative through increasing self awareness and have impact beyond the workplace, spilling out into our lives and the world.Please do drop me an email if this feels like something that you’d like to hear more about and we can have an initial chat.

Sheffield, England, United Kingdom

As part of the senior leadership team I am responsible for leading strategic internal and external culture change around regulation. I achieve this through the management of eight regional engagement leads across England, co-production activities, communications and large-scale national events. I led on the creation of our organisational values and embedded reflective practice on issues such as anti-racism for all staff. Key achievements:Engaged with over 45,000 social workers and stakeholders in our first 2 yearsCo-designed the first ‘Social Work Week’ in March 2021; 6,000+ attendees online. 88.7% of attendees said they were extremely likely to recommend Social Work Week to others. “Thank you so much to Social Work England for this week of events - you deserve a huge round of applause! Everything I attended was incredibly informative and inspirational!” (Social worker)Led an internal change-project on increasing diversity of thinking and creating more inclusive meetings resulting in an increase in scrutiny of projects and hearing different voices. “The thing I love the most Morwenna, is hearing all the voices ‘in the room’. I can’t tell you what a difference that has made …and yet the answer was so simple!” (Project Delivery and Improvement Manager).Championed race equity in social care through planning and facilitating a national Anti-Racism Steering Group leading to an action plan shared across key stakeholders.Actively recruited for more diversity in the team; set up the first Women’s Network.

Sheffield, United Kingdom

I led the delivery of a £0.5m Department of Health grant to deliver an innovative project (Co:Create) improving the design and delivery of health and social care services across the region through co-production. It is now successfully running as a commercial enterprise providing bespoke consultancy across the sector.Key achievements:Challenged current approaches to health and social care commissioning and stimulated culture change across several projects. In Rotherham Borough Council, we worked across six areas of commissioning to embed the involvement of children and young people early in the process to impact change. “The quality and impact of services for children are transformed” (OFSTED Report 2018).Implemented new ways of working (Time to Think) to encourage creative thinking and innovation. Delivered Transforming Meetings training to Directors and staff across the organisation. “Refreshing and revealing, also inclusive and allowing different personal styles in the room to contribute.”(Trainee)Was successfully selected and completed a highly competitive leadership programmeSecured backing to complete an MSc in Organisation Development whilst also managing the service

Sheffield, United Kingdom

Leading Co:Create, based within the Co-design & Improvement Team at South Yorkshire Housing Assocaition. Co-create is now a successful enterprise model.

Sheffeld

I lead the delivery and innovation of face to face services in the North of England and East Midlands with a team of 13 staff, 120 volunteers.Key achievements:• Designed and accomplished a new model of service delivery, piloted first in the North, utilising sessional staff. This has increased the reach of our face to face services in the region by 50%.• Developed a ‘key location’ approach with a focus on travelling regularly to meet with crucial stakeholders including Cancer Leads, commissioners and voluntary sector partners which has resulted in our flagship service becoming incorporated into the patient pathway.

Bassetlaw

I pioneered the implementation of Personal Health Budgets in Continuing Healthcare; instigating a significant change in culture and processes to enable patients to control their own funds for their long-term care. Key achievements:• Demonstrated exceptional stakeholder management in initiating and implementing a Section 75 partnership agreement between two commissioning bodies.• Led a programme of change management; recruiting staff champions and overcoming internal barriers to implement a new way of working.

Sheffield, United Kingdom

I delivered a portfolio of seven online and face to face services for over 10,000 people with mental health problems in the Sheffield area. Managed six full time staff, twelve casual staff and over 50 volunteers. I was a member of the Senior Leadership Team.Key achievements:• Led on successful Big Lottery Fund bid of £300,000 over three years for the Sheffield Mind & Body Project.• Worked in partnership with local authority commissioners to develop new services in response to changes in commissioning; Sheffield Mind is still a market leader in providing services for clients to purchase directly (Self Directed Support).• Developed a robust monitoring and evaluation framework for the charity and each service.

Sheffield, United Kingdom

I expanded the volunteer programme from ten to seventy volunteers and led on service user involvement in the charity.Key achievements:• Formalised the structure of the volunteer programme resulting in a change of culture & systems.• Increased and improved partnership working with local voluntary sector organisations through Altogether Better’s Community Health Champion programme.

Sheffield

I was the founding member of a service that provided pregnancy crisis and pregnancy loss counselling to over 40 women in Sheffield in its first year of delivery. I managed the day-to-day service activity which was user led and relied on self-referrals. I chaired a management committee of eight volunteers, secured £10,000 in small grant funding for start-up costs and supervised the transition to full charitable status.

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Bible/Biblical Studies, First Class Hons.

Diploma, Counselling

Msc In Professional Practice, Organisation Development, Distinction