Experience

Traverse

• United Kingdom
• Business Consulting and Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Client Director

  • Sep 2022 - Present

• Associate Director at Traverse

  • May 2018 - Oct 2022

  Head of Public Sector and Head of ODAs lead for Traverse's work with the public sector (excluding health), I work with colleagues across the business to make sure all our services - research and evaluation, engagement, consultation, organisational development and social investment - can provide local and central government clients with the support they want. I remain closely involved with project delivery, overseeing work for organisations across the sector and across our service areas, whilst specialising in engagement and OD. Recent work includes directing deliberative engagement on the climate crisis for two London boroughs, directing a 2-year evaluation of a County Lines Pathfinder in the East of England, and directing engagement programmes to connect citizens and councils in shaping visions for their local areas.



OPM

• Principal in Transformation & Change

  • Oct 2016 - Oct 2018

  Leading the design and delivery of OPM's work to support organisational development across public services and the third sector, and with an emphasis on involving communities achieving better local outcomes. Current projects include facilitating a programme of workshops to support health and social care integration across a local system; working with a local authority and community groups to develop a community-led vision for 2030; and helping a large disability charity to review its progress and build its capacity for the future.

• Fellow in Organisational Development

  • Apr 2012 - Oct 2016

  As an fellow at OPM, I am a project manager and facilitator working on the design and delivery of a range of evaluations, research and organisational development projects across public services, including in local and central government, health and social care, education and children’s services, and within wider cross-sector partnership systems.. Since authoring OPM’s report on ‘Unlocking Local Capacity’ in 2012 I have led the associated work stream supporting councils and their partners to tap into the skills, ideas and energy in their communities to improve local outcomes.

• Researcher, Senior Researcher & Associate Fellow

  • Apr 2006 - Apr 2012



Marketlink Research

• Research Executive

  • Jul 2004 - Apr 2006