About Us
Who is
Purposeful
Change




We build programmes|that live on through|your people
This process is how we help organisations evolve from within and build their capability to sustain their change.



We work to understand your context, system, and team. We aim to find the roots of a challenge, so we can tackle causes, not the symptoms.
We bring our extensive design experience into conversation with you, and co-define a robust, appropriate and entirely enable programme for you.




We test, role model and reiterate our design, taking feedback and learnings into our alterations to the sessions’ style and format.
We develop the capabilities of team members, allowing you to sustain and grow your ownable programme of change – but also your skillset.




We work with you to roll out the programme in full, making any adaptations needed as contexts change. We help you evolve or scale further if you wish.


Simon
FOUNDER | CO-DIRECTOR | FACILITATOR | COACH
Breaking with expectations of a ‘consultant’, Simon is known for his charisma, passion, and openness. He approaches even the largest organisations on a human level, helping them evolve by building internal capability and connection. Always responsive to the needs of people and situations, he can adapt from giving one-on-one coaching sessions to facilitating rooms of up to 3,000 programme participants. Simon’s dedication to creating interventions that spark ongoing impact and evolution is what fuelled him to found Purposeful Change. Here, he plays a uniquely holistic role, feeding his expertise from a career spanning theatre, consulting, and diversity and inclusion leadership into everything we do.
Monica
CO-DIRECTOR | FACULTY LEAD | HR CONSULTANT | ACCOUNTS & OPERATIONS MANAGER
An extensively experienced manager of projects and people, Monica joined Purposeful Change as a Co-Director 2020. With 15 years of HR leadership with the BBC, British American Tobacco and British Telecom under her belt, Monica is well-versed in implementing large-scale learning programmes and ensuring that transformational models work for participants. Monica is always calmly action-focussed – an anchor and motivator of our whole team. As a future-forward systems thinker, she is someone we all rely upon to map out paths to making our wildest plans into reality. Monica is particularly talented at finding sustainable solutions to challenges and bringing a wealth of HR understanding to all of our work.
Harvey
PROJECT MANAGER | TECHNICAL SUPPORT | DESIGNER
A recent Mathematics graduate, Harvey’s strong problem solving mindset provides him with an excellent ability to quickly understand the issue at hand and possible next steps that are needed, supporting his playful and adaptable style to make him a super engaged and incredibly dynamic member of our community. His deep understanding and passion for our work allows him to provide excellent support on our projects and our sessions, including being known as our ‘Resident DJ’ by many of our clients. His desire to support people to become who they truly want to be really highlights Harvey’s deep care and understanding for other people.
Helen
TECHNICAL PROGRAM MANAGER | TECHNICAL SUPPORT
When Helen manages your project, she is quietly focused, listening for all the perspectives the team share so she can create a thorough plan that supports everyone. She upholds quality of work to a high standard, supporting the internal PC team with compassion and fairness and she represents her clients fiercely! She is approachable, warm and good humoured as well as doggedly tenacious about timelines, pushing through the most complicated projects with multiple moving parts. She offers end-to-end support, providing input into the early design and planning stages all the way through to technical moderation to ensure an optimal virtual learning experience for clients. Her background as a Senior Buyer has helped her shape strong communication and negotiation skills – she keeps it real and says it like it is.
Nina
COACH | FACILITATOR | DESIGNER | CONSULTANT | INCLUSIVE LEADERSHIP SPECIALIST
An empowering coaching approach is the common thread that runs through the many roles Nina holds with her clients. She is intuitive, warm, empathetic and able to connect at a human level quickly, so that people can have more meaningful conversations about the things that really matter. She creates transformative experiences that help people expand their personal and professional range. She knows how to frame them in credible, relevant and practical ways so that people can use what they have learned about themselves to make positive changes in their life immediately. She designs and facilitates heart-led development experiences for individuals, teams and large-scale global events as well as creating ‘self-serve’ programmes for graduates and leaders to utilise at their pace, on demand. She believes in demystifying and democratising personal development, to help increase human connection in the world.
Hannah
COACH | FACILITATOR | DESIGNER | CONSULTANT | INCLUSIVE LEADERSHIP SPECIALIST
Hannah’s background in Anthropology and her career as a therapist give her a potent starting point as a facilitator and coach. She brings an immediacy and authenticity into any environment which support teams to fully open up to the work.Her style is warm, direct and challenging. Her approach is intelligent, researched and thorough. Her experience covers graduate progression to large- scale culture change, Leadership work to Diversity and Inclusion training. She is an ICF qualified Careers Coach.
Sophie
PROGRAMME & ACCOUNT MANAGER | VIRTUAL L&D ADVISOR
With a breadth of experience and insight into early career development, Sophie has dedicated both her professional and personal life in helping people feel ‘at home at work’ and get their career off on a purposeful foot. She holds responsibility very close to her heart, and is determined to empower others to feel that taking on responsibility is fun and full of choice, not a chore. As a keen broadcaster, Sophie is a very strong, passionate communicator who cares deeply for the connections she makes – both within the Purposeful Change faculty and the diverse teams and clients we work with. Sophie has an ability to balance both people and process, logistics and creativity, and urgent and important in her work. She thrives in both the detail and the bigger picture. With a constantly adapting world, her mission is to unbox stereotypes and status quo and be a part of the movement that brings about curious conversation, inclusivity and accountability.
Leyla
PA | ACCOUNT MANAGER
Leyla is a highly organised, driven and goal orientated professional with financial and commercial experience. She has a proven ability to enter new environments and produce immediate results through hard work, determination and exceptional interpersonal skills. She is committed to supporting those who need it, getting a job done properly and without fuss.
Fiona
FACILITATOR & DESIGNER | THOUGHT LEADER | PARTNER
Fiona has an extensive track record of partnering with organisations to deliver individual, team and system wide interventions which shift awareness, challenge perception and inspire change. Her purpose is to help others ‘realise’ their potential: in their thinking and through their actions. She is a skilled and creative designer, who over the last 10 years, has taken the lead in designing and deploying culture transformation, D&I and leadership development programs for Microsoft, McDonald’s, and HSBC. She is an experienced and empathetic lead facilitator, global faculty mentor, and systemic coach (ORSC practitioner). Fiona is equally comfortable and effective working with small and large groups, in person and virtually.Team

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