Empowering you to solve complex leadership challenges in a volatile world

Services offered:

  • Supporting you to understand and resolve complex challenges. Starting with active listening and then deploying my analytical and problem solving skills in a relational way to build consensus on your problems and identify appropriate ways to resolve them.

  • Working with you to help you reach your full potential whether in career transitions, seeking promotion, or encountering challenging new leadership situations. Holding a space and gently questioning to help you clarify your goals, identify possibilities, and develop action plans.

  • An experienced and engaging facilitator of team days, strategic visioning workshops, and culture change events. Supporting teams to work more effectively together, to navigate challenging change processes, or just when stuck in a rut and needing inspiration.

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Bringing expertise in:

    • Strategy Development

    • Strategy Execution Planning

    • Horizon Scanning and Trend Analysis

    • Change Leadership

    • Business Case and Investment Appraisal

    • Strategic Performance Management

    • Project Design

    • Troubleshooting Delivery

    • Donor Compliance & Grant Management

    • Management Systems Review

    • Project Governance

    • Donor Incident Reporting

    • Bid Development

    • Donor Relations

    • Fundraising Strategy

    • Income Forecasting

    • Investment Appraisal

    • Fundraising Compliance and Policies

    • Competitor/Collaborator Analysis

    • Consortium Formation and Development

    • Consortium Maintenance

    • Partner Assessments and Due Diligence

    • Partner Agreements

    • Risk & Issue Processes

    • Risk Assessment

    • Risk Management

    • Donor Relations Management

    • Crisis Management

    • Policies & Procedures

    • Collaboration Governance

    • Project & Programme Governance

    • Risk Management

    • Commercial Management

    • Technology Advice

    • IT Strategy

    • IT Delivery

    • Political Economy Analysis

    • Embedding Advocacy into Project Delivery

    • Overseeing Advocacy Campaigns

    • Response to Consultations

    • Changing Team Culture

    • Leading Through Change

    • Matrix Management

    • Collaboration Challenges

    • Inter-Organisational Virtual Teams

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About me…

My name is Richard Fillingham, I’m based in the Northwest of England (near Preston and Manchester) and I provide a wide range of professional services to charities and their talented leaders.

My twin passions are:

  • supporting purpose-driven organisations to maximise their impact for the benefit of the most marginalised people; and

  • unlocking the potential of talented people so that they can benefit the world.

I have had an extremely varied career…

I am an experienced International Development leader; having led complex global matrix teams at the intersection of programming, fundraising and advocacy for a large INGO.

I am also a graduate of the UK Government's Technology in Business Fast Stream programme. I worked for multiple government departments which gave me an excellent grounding in strategic management, programme delivery, and how to harness disruptive technology to get things done in complex environments.

Oh… and I was a nuclear physicist for a while too!

I love bringing people together to collaboratively solve real problems, drawing on my extensive professional experiences and well-honed analytical skills. The world is volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous and I thrive in these conditions.

I can help you to thrive too.

Please do check out my services and lets have a chat about how I can support you or your organisation to thrive.