Co-Founder & Non-Executive Director

• Apr 2023 - Present

After over five years as Director of Routes, I stepped back from my day-to-day role in April 2023. I continue to be on the board as a NED, offering guidance and support on the organisation's governance, as well as 1:1 support to team members including my Co-Founder Leyla, who is now Founding Director.

Co-Founder & Director

• Dec 2017 - Apr 2023

Routes is a social enterprise born to champion women, connect communities and inspire real change through mentoring and leadership programmes.🗣 "A wholly unique and rewarding experience. I've felt supported, challenged and inspired. I learned as much in ten weeks as I have from years of training and professional mentoring."- Mylinh Cao, Head of Creative Content, Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy🗣 "I really felt like the space you'd curated was incredibly inclusive, nourishing, inspiring and beautiful. It felt so genuine and was truly like nothing I've every experienced, and was the sort of training or work environment that I would've dreamt up with my own career coach. I think that environment in itself really pushed us all to joyfully get the best out of ourselves, each other and the training in order to be great mentors for our mentees and to get the most out of the programme." - Alicia Walker, Head of Policy, Research and Campaigns, Centrepoint Show less

Facilitator and Coach

• 2017 - Present

I facilitate workshops and training, supporting individuals to grow in confidence, reflect, collaborate and thrive. Workshops include: • Public speaking skills and confidence building • Facilitation skills and workshop design • Connecting with your values to make change • Learning coaching (supporting individuals to reflect on their learning journeys) Please get in touch if you'd like to explore any of these together! 🗣 "Big shout-out to [Daisy Jacobs and Leyla Mclennan] for their engaging Public Speaking Workshop... I recently had the opportunity to attend this and learned a lot: from how to warm up for public speaking engagements, to getting in touch with what motivates me and how I can bring that across." - Susi Bauer, Jagex 🗣 "Daisy ran really engaging, calming sessions, [which] helped us tangibly move forward with our project." - Year Here Fellow, 2020 Show less

RSA Fellow

• Oct 2022 - Present

Learning Coach

• 2019 - Nov 2022

I support Year Here's social innovation fellows through the Consulting Phase of the programme. Using a strengths-based approach, I create a non-judgemental, nurturing space for fellows to reflect, deepen their understanding of their own skills, set motivating goals and share feedback with one another. Feedback from past fellows includes: 🗣 "Daisy asked the perfect probing questions for when we needed to understand how we were feeling and why." 🗣 "Daisy has a great balance of calm, whilst being directive and assertive. I loved the different activities that enabled reflection and allowed everyone to be heard." Show less

Facilitator

• Jan 2018 - Mar 2020

First Give works in partnership with secondary schools to help young people to give their time, tenacity and talents to improve their local communities. Their vision is to help build a new generation of motivated and switched-on young people who want to use their skills to support local charities and make the lives of others in and around their communities better. First Give works in partnership with secondary schools to help young people to give their time, tenacity and talents to improve their local communities. Their vision is to help build a new generation of motivated and switched-on young people who want to use their skills to support local charities and make the lives of others in and around their communities better.

Programme Producer

• Jan 2018 - Oct 2018

Supporting the programme production team in delivering all elements of the course for their two cohorts of fellows. Supporting the programme production team in delivering all elements of the course for their two cohorts of fellows.

Director and Facilitator

• Mar 2016 - Mar 2018

Director and facilitator of theatre rehabilitation projects with wounded veterans, in collaboration with Blesma. Director and facilitator of theatre rehabilitation projects with wounded veterans, in collaboration with Blesma.

Consultant

• Aug 2017 - Oct 2017

Working with the London Borough of Hounslow to develop a sustainable, volunteer-run community cafe on the Meadows Estate. Our final recommendations were accompanied by a report on the relationships between SMEs, VCSEs and young people in Hounslow. Working with the London Borough of Hounslow to develop a sustainable, volunteer-run community cafe on the Meadows Estate. Our final recommendations were accompanied by a report on the relationships between SMEs, VCSEs and young people in Hounslow.

Support Worker

• Feb 2017 - Jul 2017

Five months working at St Mungo's South Camden Mental Health Accommodation services, stimulating engagement and improving utilisation of the ISF (individual service fund) across the six sites. Five months working at St Mungo's South Camden Mental Health Accommodation services, stimulating engagement and improving utilisation of the ISF (individual service fund) across the six sites.

Project Manager

• Jun 2015 - Jul 2015

Responsible for world premiere launch of a new surtitling technology, developed by Theatre in Paris in conjunction with ATOS and Optinvent. The technology consisted of multilingual surtitles in augmented reality glasses. Responsibilities included: - organising and managing press and media relations;- welcoming international VIPs to test the technology, including Fleur Pellerin and Emmanuel Macron;- attending two 2-day mentoring sessions with French Tech Culture;- quality control of the surtitles for the two shows on offer. The project and team were then awarded the European Living Lab prize at the end of the month by French Tech Culture. Show less

Marketing and Communications

• Sep 2014 - Jun 2015

As the only native English speaker on the team, responsibilities included customer relations; content production for programmes, website and social media; communication with travel agents, tour operators and groups; welcoming clients to theatres around Paris as part of the company's exclusive English Welcome Service, amongst other tasks.