I help charities to navigate challenges and deliver meaningful change

Many charities are under pressure: funding is reducing, savings and efficiencies are required, leadership changes bring uncertainty, and teams are feeling stretched and fatigued.

Through expertise in strategy and planning, supporting leadership teams, and delivering change, I provide practical and hands-on solutions to respond to these challenges.

About Me

With over a decade of experience in senior roles at Cancer Research UK and Breaking Barriers, I bring deep expertise in starting up and scaling organisations, as well as strategy, transformation, and operations.

As a former Chief of Staff at Breaking Barriers, I helped the charity grow into a national, award-winning organisation, leading major organisational reviews and improving governance and processes.

I am an engaging and enthusiastic charity sector leader with outstanding interpersonal and communication skills. I have experience of managing diverse teams and working as part of multiple Senior Leadership Teams. I have held positions leading programme delivery, HR, Data as well as strategy, innovation and project management.

I love working with new people and particularly enjoy facilitating workshops. Outside of work, I have a young daughter and a sausage dog who keep me busy, and I love spending holidays in France.

What I do

  • Strategic Improvement

    • Organisation and department strategy development

    • Strategic reviews and tracking

    • Operations and business planning (incl. budgeting)

    • Process improvements (incl. HR, data, risk)

  • Leadership Effectiveness

    • Senior Leadership Team ways of working and transition planning

    • Governance, decision making and improving effectiveness

    • CEO and Trustee strategic and advisory support

  • Change Management

    • Change project delivery (incl. technology, people, programme projects)

    • Organisational development and restructure planning

    • Workshop facilitation 

Designed a Lived Experience strategy and action plan to better recognise and champion people from a refugee background within an organisation.

Examples

Managed live HR issues and implemented improved HR policies and processes.

Planned and facilitated leadership development sessions to align a new leadership team, build ways of working and co-create operational plans.

Implemented a new CRM system, procuring supplier and managing data migration.

Conducted an organisational design project, reviewing Leadership roles and departmental structures, facilitating design workshops, analysing benchmarking data.

Developed a new organisational Theory of Change and strategic framework.

Testimonials

“Anna would be an asset to any organisation. Her workshop facilitation creates a safe space for collaboration and innovation, supporting teams through challenges and times of change. Anna leads with compassion and co-creates tangible solutions to drive business outcomes and organisational change.”

Dani Meier, EDI Manager, Diabetes UK

“I recommend Anna without hesitation. I am confident that her skills, professionalism and leadership will be an invaluable asset in any organisation”

Ciara Devlin, CEO, Breaking Barriers

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