...if your organisation needs research, people strategy support, or training that's genuinely grounded in our sector, not adapted from somewhere else.
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Expertise Not Leadership
You’re really good at your job and you’d like that to be enough.
You want to be taken seriously but have no interest in being the one in charge. You’re sceptical of ‘leadership’ courses and would like another option for professional development that isn’t centred around taking on a leadership role.
You’re not alone: most people in most organisations aren't, or don’t want to be, leaders and almost no further professional development was built with you in mind.
If this all sounds familiar, then this course is for you!
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Good Endings
How people leave your organisation is not just a procedural matter for HR. It's a cultural choice.
Whose choice the ending is, and how it is handled, are themes that cut across all types of departure. From succession planning to exit processes, from retirement to resignation; from saying goodbye to long term service users, to Trustees standing down.
It's not only staff who leave: volunteers and service users will also experience how it feels to leave your organisation. And while redundancy can feel like the most emotionally charged ending, it is not the only one that deserves consideration at a governance level.
This workshop will help your team diagnose your organisation's current approach to endings and explore whether a different approach, consistent with your values, is needed.
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Fundraising Capability
Sustainable funding isn't built by fixing people. It's built by the conditions they work in: investing in your fundraisers - staff, trustees and volunteers alike - and giving them the time to learn, to fail, to celebrate and to succeed.
My workshops, training and solo fundraiser support provide your people with the tactical ideas, operational insight and strategic understanding to help them thrive.
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Wellbeing
Most workplace wellbeing spending is aimed at the individual: resilience training, a mindfulness session, an app, a link to external suppory. The largest UK study to date found almost none of it made any measurable difference to how people actually felt.
The reason is simple. You can't process your way out of an unmanageable workload. Offering someone time and space to look after their wellbeing, while offering no respite from the work itself, is a distraction, not support.
I can help you explore what may affect wellbeing in your organisation - especially where you have employees with significant caring responsibilities - to find practical ways to improve, including ones that don't cost money.
Your Job: Love it or Leave it
A one-hour reflective session for people working in charities, nonprofits and social enterprises to explore your options.
If you’re feeling uncertain about your role or direction, this focused session helps you step back and make sense of where you are.
We’ll explore what’s working, what isn’t, and what needs to change, so you can decide your next step with clarity and confidence.
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Team Development
Working alongside each other effectively means understanding what each other needs to do their best work.
How your team works is shaped largely by the conditions you're operating in: the pressures, the assumptions, the things that don't get said. Exploring these things together is more useful in the long run than an away day activity.
This session will help you understand each others' needs and motivations more clearly, contributing to a better working environment in the future.
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Consultancy
My approach is grounded in understanding motivations, offering insight from research and bringing in new perspectives and ideas. What this looks like in practice depends on what your organisation needs.
I bring years of in-depth sector experience to understand the situation quickly.
If you have a problem that doesn't fit a neat description, I am happy to have a conversation about whether I can help.
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"Hannah is an utter joy to work with. She has an abundance of common sense, which we all know is not as common as the name would suggest. She's a really energetic and positive problem solver but doesn't shy away from hard truths or saying it as it is. Her breadth of practiced, lived, and learned experience is quite something, and she's generous with it all."
Liz Gadd, Liz Gadd Consulting
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