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Verena-Kensington and Chelsea Council
24/06/2023
It was great working with Rachel on a charity governance project. Rachel brought a range of professionals skills to the project.
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Rachel in a few words
A dynamic and influential board-level leader, recognised for delivering business growth and radical impact in charity and not-for-profit. Proven track record of leading strategic planning and innovation to deliver results through a focus of creating cultures with a growth-mindset and disciplined execution.
Recognised as a strategic consultant /CEO who consistently delivers creative, commercial, pragmatic strategies through exceptional people leadership. Passionate about achieving operational excellence, high value partnerships that deliver on productivity and team wellbeing.
Recent work has been working a major high street brand on their social mobility programme looking at how they could work with their supply chain to support the programme. Working with a new charity to create a new funding model to attract business, develop an impact strategy, and rebrand the charity to be modern and relevant to its audience. Being an independent chair of a charity going through troubled times.
Working with a charity CEO to help reboot their internal infrastructure and understand better their position in the space they operate, ready for a three year scaling up plan. Doing a feasibility study for an international development charity on creating a consultancy arm.
Curated a film and panel discussion for the ‘Raising the Game’ section of The Good Business Festival, working with Liverpool City Council and Hemingway Design.
Brought together two organisations to co-create and deliver a successful national intergenerational pilot.
I was the inaugural CEO of Lawrence Dallaglio's charity, and designed a long term, impact-driven sustainable employability skills programme, working with teenagers excluded from mainstream education.
Headed up Cancer Research UK's Race for Life, a 5k women’s event, growing it from £2m to £60m and from 36,000 to 600,000 participants and to a brand with an 80% unprompted recall.
Chair of Trekstock, a cancer charity.
Experience
- KFC Ireland & UKStrategy ConsultantRESTAURANTS & FOOD SERVICEFebruary 2024 - Today (10 months)Brought in to help them find a new funding model for their social mobility programme. Working with internal stakeholders in designing a workshop session to explore avenues of funding, including the supply chain, then making recommendations moving forward after conducting research and interviews.
- shiftEDConsultantARTS & CRAFTSJanuary 2024 - Today (11 months)London, England, United KingdomSupporting the CEO on this new charity on a strategy to scale and fund a Makerspace working with school children to learn to make and make to learn.
- The Good Business FestivalSports CuratorARTS & CRAFTSApril 2020 - November 2020 (7 months)Liverpool, England, United KingdomCurated a film and panel discussion for the ‘Raising the Game’ section of The Good Business Festival, working with Liverpool City Council and Hemingway Design. https://thegoodbusinessfestival.com/event/raising-the-game-with-sport-england/
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Education
- Business Studies - Marketing,Nottingham Trent UniversityBusiness Studies - Marketing,