Welcome.

Over the past 27 years, I have encouraged, connected, coached and developed individuals, staff and boards of businesses that invest in social change across sectors, and helped them co-design and amplify experiences and social change initiatives that transform people’s worlds.

I am proud to have supported 12,000+ (mainly women) impact leaders, sharing my technical and human experience as a Bcorp leader, a board member, a managing consultant, a social entrepreneur and a producer.

Importantly, I feel privileged to listen to ignite their effort.

People say I bring partnering, experimentation and intimacy to complex tasks and create a space where you are met where you’re at, and you learn to make sense of your world.

8 Reasons Why We Could Partner

You want to:

1. DEVELOP YOUR ADAPTIVE LEADERSHIP

You benefit from my in-depth conscious innovation and intersectional leadership experience.
For over two decades, I was immersed in the social business ecosystem, growing as a social change activist, and the CEO of Ogunte CIC, the organisation amplifying and connecting women in social entrepreneurship – one of the first 50 UK B corps.

2. EMBRACE COACHING AS A RELATIONAL PRACTICE

I help you think independently for yourself, be mindful of the collective good, and help you generate actions that tend to thorny issues and meet your needs.

I bring 2 decades as a Thinking Partner, Exeuctive coach and facilitator (International Coach Federation (ICF) Professional Certified Coach (PCC), mentor coach, ACTC accredited Team Coach, a Time To Think consultant -coach, facilitator and teacher- and supervisor). I support CEO, VPs, executive teams, movement organisers, working from the grassroots to the board level.[1]

3. UNDERSTAND INCLUSION AS A VERB

I believe everybody has a role to play in creating a world that tells people “You matter”.
Through interventions across sectors, from civic society, and smart Social Finance networks, to my consulting experience for Central Government and leadership development support for policy makers across the world, I have equipped professionals to go the extra mile, be more visible, experiment with different systems-thinking, agile, relational and creative approaches, and embed human rights and equality frameworks in their products and operations.

4. BE OPEN TO VARIOUS LENSES

I loved creating the first incubator for women in social enterprises in the UK. The programme started in London and Manchester and pivoted online in the early 2010s with participants from Jamaica to Japan and a strong mentoring team of global mentors and entrepreneurs. We learned a lot about women’s lived experiences and weaved new knowledge into action. We changed the participants’ perception and behaviour around finance, we helped them make sense of the investment ecosystem. They successfully applied their new insights to their fundraising and business development, generating over £ 1 million in revenue.

5. EASE IN THE GOVERNANCE DANCE

As a board advisor and consultant for various social innovations / green ventures, women’s sector organisations and arm-length bodies [2], I am a board partner. I listen carefully to everyone around the table, ensure users’ voices are represented and bring in probing questions… not to disrupt but to ignite people’s thinking, at the service of a purpose. Together we explore, we dare, and we save time.

6. WELCOME FORESIGHT AS A PORTAL TO PRESENCE

We generate inclusive, empathetic strategies, and learn to bring everyone along on a mission to start being present to what the future calls us to be.
As a trained foresight practitioner, I’ve facilitated numerous Futures-Thinking wayfinding/action-learning anticipation sessions that help people imagine and make sense of what is and what could be, for good and for worse.

7. EXPLORE SOCIAL FINANCE AS A STEPPING STONE

My ecosystem management experience as a steering committee for Women In Social Finance, and as the director of the Womanity Award (Womanity Foundation) and grants provider. I have invested in and coached innovative South-to-South partnerships that adapted successful programmes to prevent gender violence. ampong other topics. Investees and stakeholders appreciated my connections, learning challenges and evidence-based support. It helped them extend their reach and build stronger ventures.

8. NOURISH A SENSE OF CONNECTEDNESS

Together we learn better. I hope this is contagious…
I speak and work in various languages. I also love co-curating, engaging, asking questions and MCing for audiences (panels and keynotes) at in-person or online conferences. We explore avenues that bring us closer to each other.

Let’s chat!

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