My experience

I’ve worked in the UK voluntary sector since 2003 (after a brief stint in the advertising world). I’ve an academic background in health policy, social research and biological anthropology.

Working in voluntary sector projects, I was always interested in whether or not the work was worthwhile, so I became drawn more and more towards strategy and impact. I slowly specialised until evaluation and learning became my focus, eventually shifting to consultancy and training with Charities Evaluation Services (now part of NCVO). I went freelance in 2013, still work regularly as an NCVO Associate, and am a member of the Framework consultancy collective. You can see examples of my work here.

I enjoy working with people who genuinely wish to use impact data to learn and improve, not only to report externally. I find that with these projects there’s greater potential for the work to be really valuable all round, and there’s greater values alignment – and therefore greater joy!

I’ve trained as an embodied facilitator and coach, and I have longstanding meditation and movement practices. I also teach meditation and yoga. While I naturally bring some of these practices into all that I do, if you’re particularly interested in embodied coaching, or other sides of my work, you can find out more at Movement for Change.