A curated network of 80 senior professionals across 23 countries, each with 20+ years experience and a shared passion for helping impact organisations thrive.

Strategists, designers, consultants, coaches, researchers, systems thinkers, creatives, operators, facilitators and more.

Some of us have bullt our careers in the impact sector, others corporate, consulting or academia. Some of us are independent, some embedded in organisations.

What binds us is a belief that the best of us shows up when we work together, in diverse teams, on things that really matter.

The Meaningful Work Collective provides third way.

A global community of senior professionals to call on when needed. Ready to think with you when the problem isn't fully formed yet, or put together exactly the right team when it is. People who get your world and are easy to work with.

WHY WE EXIST

Impact leaders need a different type of support

Consulting firms bring real expertise and structured thinking. But they take time to mobilise, come with significant cost and the people who pitch and deliver are different.

Independent consultants bring focus and deep expertise. But one person can only cover so much ground - and as your needs evolve, their fit doesn't always evolve with them.

Our members come from a wide range of institutions

When you need structured thinking and sector experience - we bring the senior expertise to help you move from problem to plan.

• Strategy design and development

• Partnership assessment and design

• Fundraising strategy and donor engagement

• Programme design and management

• Research and landscape analysis

When you need tackle complex and challenging people issues, we can mobilise the coaches and consultants to help move the dial.

• Leadership development

• Team culture and ways of working

• Operating model design

• Change management

• Facilitating offsites or consultations

Building thriving teams

WHERE WE HELP

Two areas where we tend to make the most difference.

Strategy design & delivery

The contexts we cover:

Food systems and nutrition

Financial inclusion

Innovative financing

Health and wellbeing

Humanitarian response

Refugees and migrants

Responsible business

Systems change

Social innovation

Sustainability

Tech for good

Youth development

Climate and environment

Diversity, equity and inclusion

Early childhood development

Economic empowerment

Project Support

When you need doing.

Whether you have a clear brief or just enough for an exploratory converastion, , we find the right person - or put together a small team - with the experience needed to lead or support your project with structure, focus and momentum.

HOW WE HELP

Two ways to work with us.

Advisory Partner

When you need thinking.

A sounding board for new idea. A fresh perspective on a challenge. The right person for a specific challenge, found quickly. This might be a sustained relationship long period, or a series of conversations when something comes up. The depth depends on what you need.

RECENT WORK

What we've been up to

Designing a 9-month learning journey to help 22 sport-for-good organisations genuinely listen to, and share power with, the young people they serve.

TYPE: Project Support / AREA: Building thriving teams + Strategy, design and delivery

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"What we got wasn't a training. It was a transformation in how our partners think about their relationship with young people. Daniela and Tim didn't deliver content at our organisations - they created the conditions for our organisations to learn from each other. The results have outlasted the programme itself."

- adidas Foundation Programme Lead

Helping a global ecosystem of social impact funders move from fragmented good intentions to coordinated action.

TYPE: Project Support / AREA: Strategy, design and delivery

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"What struck me most was that MWC didn't arrive with pre-formed answers. They arrived with the right questions - and the skill to hold a room full of funders who didn't yet agree on the problem, let alone the solution. By the end, we had something we could actually act on."

- Nick Stanhope, Chief Insights Officer, 100x Impact

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.

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 ALL THIS

Ian and Dee.

With you from issue to outcome.

Got a challenge?

Let's talk.

The first step is just a conversation.

No forms to fill. No pitch from us. Just Ian or Dee, 30 minutes, and an honest conversation about your organisation and what you're trying to do. We'll tell you whether and how we can help - and if it's not the right fit we'll say so.

Contact either of us:

Ian Lobo. Ian@meaningfulworkcollective.com

Dee Jadeja.Dee@meaningfulworkcollective.com