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Let’s Work Together

Unlock your organisations potential to enhance impact and deliver real and lasting changes

If your organisation is.

  • Ready to grow, but don’t know how to support that growth without overstretching your current teams or budgets?

  • Struggling to embed strategy into everyday operations, to live beyond the boardroom and inspire action across the entire organisation?

  • Tangled in operational complexity that’s costing you time, money, and momentum?

  • Relying on relentless effort to maintain momentum, while growth feels out of reach without new resources?

  • Too busy firefighting the urgent that you’ve lost sight of the strategic priorities that really matter, constantly reacting, with no time to step back and tackle the root causes?

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How I can help…

I support purpose-driven companies and charities in turning their strategic goals into reality—by harnessing their greatest asset: their people —to streamline operational processes.

Through operational transformation, I enable organisations to deliver greater impact with streamlined processes, faster ways of working, and reduced costs. My approach is practical, people-centred, and tailored to your unique context.

Here’s how I could support you:

1.  Streamlining for Agility and Impact

I reduce or redesign processes that hinder agility, innovation, creativity, and delivery—freeing your teams to move faster and achieve more.

2.  Strengthening Compliance Without Sacrificing Ownership

I help maintain or improve compliance while preserving accountability and ownership of outcomes—ensuring governance supports rather than stifles progress.

3.  Empowering Teams to Perform at Their Best

I improve engagement and motivation by enabling teams to work with clarity, confidence, and purpose—every day, at every level.

Whether you're scaling up, navigating change, or simply ready to work smarter, I’ll help you build the operational backbone to make it happen.

The Process

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    1. Getting to know you

    First stage is to get to know your organisation, people, processes and culture.

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    2. Audit

    An audit will examine where to focus and how to create lasting change and impact.

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    3. Assessing

    The assessing phase examines strategic alignment with resources, processes, people and culture and barriers to growth and change

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    4. Recommendations

    Delivery of a fully agreed plan with clear steps to achieving operational transformation.

FAQs

  • I partner with purpose-driven companies and charities that want to translate their strategic goals into practical, measurable results. My clients are typically experiencing growth, change, or operational challenges — and are ready to evolve how their teams work together for greater efficiency and impact. text goes here

  • The process is delivered in three phases:

    • Phase 1: Discovery (1 Day) — immersive workshops with your teams to understand your culture, workflows, and challenges.

    • Phase 2: Deep Dive & Review (1 Day) — analysis of your systems, policies, and performance data.

    • Phase 3: Recommendations & Action Plan — presentation and detailed written report outlining priorities, practical actions, and next steps.

    This typically takes around 6 weeks, allowing time for careful analysis and reflection.

  • My approach is hands-on and people-centred. I don’t just assess from the outside — I engage directly with your teams to understand how things really work. The goal isn’t to hand over a theoretical report, but to co-create practical, achievable changes that strengthen performance, improve engagement, and make strategy feel real across every level of your organisation.

  • You’ll receive a clear, actionable roadmap to improve efficiency, strengthen compliance, and enhance team ownership. Common outcomes include:

    • Streamlined processes that save time and cost.

    • Improved staff engagement and clarity of roles.

    • Better alignment between strategy and day-to-day delivery.

    • Increased agility and confidence in decision-making.

  • From the initial discovery session to the delivery of your recommendations, the process typically takes six weeks. This ensures the analysis is thorough and the insights are meaningful. However, timelines can be adjusted to fit your organisation’s specific scheduling or capacity needs.

  • Many clients choose to continue working with me through an implementation or fractional operations partnership, where I help embed changes and build internal capability. This can include coaching leaders, refining processes, and supporting teams as they adopt new ways of working — ensuring the transformation is sustainable, not just a short-term fix.

Consulting Services Guide

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Strategic clarity. Operational impact. Flexible leadership.

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Operational Audit & Transformation Consultation

£3175

A comprehensive operational audit and consultation service designed to uncover the barriers holding your organisation back and create a clear, actionable roadmap for operational transformation and strategic alignment.

Fractional Operations Director Services

£750

Day Rate

I provide the leadership, systems thinking, and strategic clarity of a full-time Operations Director — but on a flexible, part-time, or project basis that fits your organisation’s needs and budget.

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