Her superpower: A competitiveness balanced with empathy that helps her connect meaningfully with people from all backgrounds and get things done.

Tania is a strategy and management consultant with over 15 years of experience in the corporate, public, civil society and startup sectors, where she co-designs solutions to improve organisational effectiveness and leadership capability. Her journey has taken her to Australia, the UK, India and New Zealand, which equips her with a deep awareness of identity, culture and inclusion.

More recently, Tania has been working with social enterprises and third sector organisations on improving impact management practice, and with social businesses scaling their growth through crowdfunding and other non-conventional channels. Over the years, Tania has also advocated for climate action, youth social mobility and place-based community building projects. Tania brings a collaborative, people-centric and systems thinking approach to her work.

Her superpower: Sifting through the “noise” to help teams simplify, problem-solve and communicate what matters. Championing potential.

Georgina started her career as a commercial lawyer for eight years specialising in international infrastructure projects advising governments, funders and multinationals. More recently, Georgina was COO at a national charity tackling food waste and social isolation. There, she worked on board-level strategic review, drove enhanced data capture for social impact evaluation and managed and coached her team through a period of change.

Georgina’s writing and editing experience includes research projects for the world’s first social investment bank, Big Society Capital, and drafting guidance resources for the UK’s Department for Education. Georgina has worked in Europe, Middle East, South America and Indonesia. She is a qualified professional coach, has an MA in French & Linguistics from Oxford University and is a Fellow of the On Purpose leadership programme.

Will has held management positions helping start-up companies to scale alongside working in community and global focused social enterprises. He loves nothing more than taking bold ideas and turning them into reality. Previously, he led the marketing function at Concentra Analytics, taking new products to market while building up a marketing and sales team. Will is currently working with a number of disruptive technology companies in regenerative agriculture and bio-energy helping them commercialise and create impact on a global scale. Previously he has worked on sustainable energy advocacy and a national scale reforestation programme in South East Asia.

Thais brings financial and commercial skills to help organisations deliver greater impact in their communities. Her superpower is her ability to communicate effectively with diverse organisations and cultures. She has worked in mission-driven organizations, startups as well as traditional businesses in sustainability, social investment, business development and banking in the UK, Italy and Brazil.

Recently, Thais worked in sustainability and innovation for Interface, prototyping a new circular economy project and looking for sustainable solutions to divert carpets from landfill. She also worked with Numbers for Good, where she advised charities about social investment and social impact bonds.  She has co-founded an e-commerce business in Brazil, and began her career at Deutsche Bank as an emerging markets credit analyst. Thais holds an MBA from INSEAD and she is an On Purpose Fellow.

Jonathan has a background in international development and social enterprise. His expertise lies in growth strategy and operations management. He is a skilled organiser and coalition builder and has solved complex systemic social issues.

His recent work includes supporting a leading ethical food & beverage company to reduce plastic waste by moving into a new market segment, and creating a long-term growth strategy for an innovative education charity. Previously, he spent nine years working for the UK Government, including as Head of UK Operations for the Ebola crisis in West Africa. He was formerly Executive Director of a volunteer-run charity delivering sustainable youth development projects across Southern Africa.

Jonathan holds an MSc in African Politics from the School of Oriental and African Studies and is a Fellow of the On Purpose leadership programme.

Superpower: Bringing teams together to develop strategic and operational plans and deliver them at pace.

 

Catherine is a management consultant with five years of commercial and non-profit experience with a focus on projects based in Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, and the Middle East. She brings together strong experience in research, project management, monitoring and evaluation, and data management.  

Her project experience includes providing monitoring and evaluation technical support to agricultural development grantees of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. More recently, Catherine has provided gender integration training to Agriculture and Food Security projects for the International Development Research Centre. Catherine also worked with Project Ploughshares, a non-governmental organisation that works to advance policies to prevent war and armed violence, in a research role. Catherine started her career with Ernst and Young, where she was part of the IT Risk Advisory Services.

Catherine holds a Bachelor of Mathematics in Combinatorics and Optimization and a Diploma in Peace and Conflict Studies, from the University of Waterloo.

Aurelie is an experienced third sector and corporate manager with working experience from multinational firms to start up NGOs, and from government to social businesses, in both the developed and developing world. Born digital marketer, she more recently leveraged her organisational and analytical skills to build up capacity for a start-up NGO in India. Adaptable and used to fast-paced multicultural environments, she’s a doer and can deliver a communication strategy for a social investment fund, as well as organise an event for the Cabinet Office, deliver training for volunteers or take up a research on domestic violence in the UK. She’s fluent in English, French and Spanish.

Her superpower: Super efficient project manager, can keep anyone accountable to deliver on time! 

Her superpower: Challenging social norms and questioning assumptions. Logical reasoning and mapping processes.

Valeria has over eight years of management experience in social development. She started her career establishing and heading the European Information Centre of the Parliament of Moldova. Later, Valeria worked for UNICEF Moldova focusing on improving opportunities for vulnerable groups of the society, particularly for youth and children. She has expertise in child protection and youth and adolescent development. During her career she provided technical advisory and consultancy on developing national and local strategies, working with international agencies, parliament and government of Moldova.

She has extensive project and programme management experience within the UK and overseas. Valeria worked on measuring the impact of Mathematics Mastery (ARK UK Programmes) and HCT Group. She has experience in product and services design, budget management, start-ups, social impact analyses and advisory. She is fluent in English, Romanian and Russian.

Valeria Ilies has a BA in International Economic Affairs and a Master in Business Administration from the Academy of Economic Studies of Moldova.

Her superpower: Combining creativity with a logical, highly organised approach. Transforming dense, complex information into something people really want to read. A devilish eye for detail.

Anna has over nine years’ experience helping social organisations to communicate messages and partner with others. A versatile communicator and project manager, she has particular expertise in the international development, social enterprise and youth sectors.

Her business development and partnerships experience includes managing and writing bids for EU-funded contracts and creating a toolkit for the British Council’s global partnerships team. A published journalist, Anna also has extensive experience in editing and copywriting for charities and government/institutional bodies.
Anna has worked in several countries in Europe and East Africa. She has a BA in Modern Languages and an MA in European Studies, and is a Fellow of the On Purpose leadership programme.

His Superpower: Helping organisations diagnose problems systematically with analytical accuracy and designing and delivering robust and innovative solutions.

Rahul has over six years of management consulting experience in public and third sectors. He started his career in Advisory at EY where he worked on a diverse mixture of performance improvement projects for Central Government, the NHS and Local Public sector including a County Council and the Metropolitan Police. He then went to pursue a career in the social sector by joining On Purpose. Here he lead on multiple local and national delivery improvement and transformational innovation projects for the NHS and also developed a partnering handbook delivering a more consistent and innovative partnership approach at the British Council. Rahul has also worked for a think tank and briefly for an MP in Parliament. He holds an MSc in Global Politics from LSE and is PRINCE2 practitioner and CIMA foundation qualified.