A community of senior professionals available to support impact leaders with gnarly strategic challenges
The Meaningful Work Collective


We are strategists, consultants, coaches, researchers, facilitators and more. Some with careers built in the impact sector, others from corporate leadership or academia.
What binds us is a shared belief that the best of us shows up when we work together, in diverse teams, to work jointly on challenges that really matter.
We come together to work with NGOs, foundations, social enterprises, multilateral agencies and businesses working for people and planet.
80+ members
Across 20+ countries
Decades of experience
WHY WE ARE HERE
Access to experience
The challenges impact leaders face are rarely simple. They're complex and interconnected. Finding the right support to navigate these challenges is often not straightforward:
Internal teams knows your organisation deeply but often stretched already and don't have exposure to good practice exists.
An independents consultant brings deep expertise in one area but often not the breadth needs to tackle respond as things shift.
And sometimes the problem isn't fully formed. You just someone who knows your world to think to think something through with.


At an executive level challenges do not exist in isolation. Shift one and the others move.
MWC is here for that moment.
We take time to understand the challenge, and where possible, connect you people people who can help in some way.
Expertise in our community
AI, digital and tech for good
Commucations and media
Design and innovation
Facilitation and learning design
Fundraising & resource mobilisation
Grant making policy and systems
Governance and board advisory
Leadership development coaching
Organisational design
Organisational strategy & change
Partnership development
Programme design and management
Research, monitoring and evaluation
Systems change and social innovation
Team dynamics and culture


Our members come from a wide range of institutions
Project Support
When you need a delivery partner. The right person or people to lead or support a defined piece of work, bringing invaluable experience.
-> Recent work
HOW WE HELP
Two ways to work with us
CEO Advisory
When you need a thinking partner. A sustained relationship with people who get to know your organisation and are there when it matters.
-> Recent work
Contexts we cover:
Food systems and nutrition
Financial inclusion
Innovative financing
Health and wellbeing
Humanitarian response
Refugees and migrants
Responsible business
Youth development
Climate and environment
Diversity, equity and inclusion
Early childhood development
Economic empowerment
In a world where information is instant and abundant, what's rare is wisdom. That's what we've gathered.
When you reach out to MWC, you talk to one of us. We've spent our careers working with and inside organisations that exist to make a difference - across six continents, from global NGOs to social enterprises to foundations to governments. We built this collective because we believe in what's possible when the right people find each other, and find something worth working for.
We take time to understand what you're really grappling with - not just the presenting challenge, but the context around it, the constraints you're working within, and what a good outcome actually looks like for you and your organisation. Then we find the right people to help you and we stay close, until the the work is done and beyond that.
THE PEOPLE BEHIND THIS
Ian and Dee






