Welcome to the Charity Leadership Collection

Join me to hear about the highs and lows of people, the quick and not-too-expensive wins and the benefits of speculating to accumulate.

Sarah is a certified leadership coach and trainer, in this session she will bring these skills along with her 30 years of experience in the charity-sector, leading teams at charity’s such as WaterAid, Marie Curie Cancer Care and most recently as Director Fundraising and Communication, Mental Health Foundation to look at why confidence is important, three corner-stones to your confident leadership and share tools to support you and your team manage day to day stresses with ease.

This session covers inclusive leadership principles and practices.

Through a series of comedic stories, I’ll share hard-won personal branding lessons that will help you gain credibility and be recognized as a thought leader in your industry.

I didn’t really know what it meant to be a leader until I started learning samba. I’m going to talk about how important it is to find joy/passion outside of work and how it can help you become a better leader.

Are you ready to step up into a Senior Leadership role? Are you thinking ‘Am I ready for it’? Do you want to be the next Head of or Director in your organisation?
I will be sharing my insight, learnings and tips from my first year as a Director of Fundraising and Communications.

Ellen and Hanan are going to be providing practical advice on how to make your recruitment process inclusive, discussing ED&I best practice.

In this short presentation Will Sadler and Zosia Feher from Beacon Films will explore what ‘neurodivergence’ is and how we best support the talents of neurodivergent colleagues in our workplace.

In this session, Des and Richard will look at what fundraising leaders and the leadership team across charities need to do to develop and implement their organisation’s fundraising strategy successfully

In this session I will tell you how at Crisis during the Covid pandemic and since, with the added pressure of economic uncertainty, a focus on compassionate leadership and staff wellbeing, ensured my team remained on track, motivated, and continue to thrive.

In this session, we chat with Charlotte (CHUF – small, local charity) and Lilian (Mencap – medium, national charity) to get tips and advice from their organisations.

In this conversation, they cover the challenges that exist in our society and how it affects charity leadership – and what steps we need to take to create more safe and inclusive opportunities for women of colour.

Discover the power of insight-led leadership in fundraising with Medialab, the UK’s leading independent media agency.

In this session, we’ll explore why increasing numbers of charity workers are unionising in order to tackle these problems together, and hear examples of where collective action has benefited not only workers, but the organisation as a whole.

This session will kick off the conference with Anaish’s reflections on leadership in his current world; from being a head of team, trustee, tennis captain and eldest sibling.