Jenny is a specialist in supporting groups, organisations and individuals to strengthen their impact and effectiveness. She has had over 100 clients in her decade long consultancy career and works across a wide-range of civil society organisations, funders and issues as a critical friend and learning cheerleader. Jenny enjoys navigating complexity and power dynamics and developing processes and creating spaces where people can come together to learn and commit to take action together. She has worked directly lobbying for change at the UN Security Council, the EU, OECD and the UK Parliament and has extensive experience of supporting civil society networks and activists - particularly across Africa and Eurasia.

Claudia Elliot is a communications specialist. For her 14 year career, she has worked with think tanks and NGOs working on climate change, economic justice, and international development, including the New Economics Foundation, Global Witness, and CAFOD. She likes creating incisive communications plans and supporting people to become strategic and confident communicators. Claudia is also a trained coach, and is currently learning about how non-violent communication can facilitate difficult dialogue between individuals and groups.

Sarah Rose works with organisations on systems change, evidence and learning. Sarah focuses on creating accessible ways to collect and make sense of data; how to embrace complexity and systems change; applying an intersectional approach to learning; and how to debunk complex evaluation systems and embrace narratives and storytelling. Sarah serves on the board of CIVICUS - the global alliance of civil society organisations and activists dedicated to strengthening citizen action and civil society throughout the world. She trained as a journalist and has worked for a range of organisations in the UK and internationally, primarily within the child rights sector.

Charlotte has 20 years’ experience in organisational design, with a particular focus on organisations working for economic systems change. She has co-founded two award winning nonprofits that build the capacity of campaigners, organisers and other change makers working for economic and social justice. She has led the design and delivery of a range of training and capacity building programmes, and has trained and coached over 100 organisations, helping them to design their organisational strategy, structure, culture and approach to anti-oppression.

Rachel is a facilitator and campaigner with ten years' experience supporting people-powered campaigns and projects that challenge unjust economic and political systems. She's the Director of Public Engagement at Positive Money, where she's worked since 2016 developing education, mobilisation and organising strategies, including organising a local participatory democracy process on the cost of living. She is an accredited Action Learning facilitator and has supported organisations such as Rethinking Economics and Finance Watch with their organisational culture strategies. She enjoys holding space for groups to reflect, interrogate strategies, and build trust and confidence.

Irene has over 25 years of UK and international experience of working with investors and grantmakers (including UN agencies and bilateral and multilateral funders). Irene is co-convener of the #ShiftThePower UK Funders Collective, a funders network exploring new ways to democratise funding, and a Fellow of the League of Intrapreneurs. She is a specialist in designing innovative programmes - examples include development of Comic Relief’s UK Stronger Communities strategy on community co-design approaches and microfinance models for social enterprise in Central America.

Cecillia is a power, youth and gender specialist. Her experience is best summarised in two halves; working directly with decision-makers and within global processes (Commonwealth Secretariat, UN Women) to expand and protect space for young people and women to exercise their rights and, strengthening young people and women’s approaches to influencing powerholders and realising those rights (Restless Development and Oxfam). Cecillia is a trained intersectional feminist with an MSc from the London School of Economics’ Gender Institute and an experienced facilitator recently selected to join the UN’s roster as a Women’s Leadership and Political Participation Trainer.