
Rebecca has worked with Collaborate on a consistent basis as one of our regular Senior Associates since February 2017. Rebecca is a past fellow at Oxford University’s school of government and a current fellow at the RSA. Her expertise spans the public and private sector and she has a robust track record of delivering service transformation and sustainable change, particularly in relation to complex and cross-sector partnerships. Rebecca is totally focused on making change happen. Highly collaborative and outcomes-orientated, she has 20+ years’ experience in working directly for local authorities and in particular on change management, commissioning strategy and implementation, political management, partnership working, performance improvement, local government policy development, innovation, research, data analytics, modelling and intelligence.
Rebecca has worked as an independent associate since 2017 when she stopped full time work to care for her parents with dementia. Prior to joining Collaborate Rebecca was interim transformation director for Newham Council, and Children’s Transformation Director at Lambeth Council, where she worked for 9 years.
Rebecca has worked consistently for Collaborate over the last seven years on our projects to support Islington, Sutton, Barking and Dagenham, Hounslow, Tower Hamlets, South Tyneside, Ealing, Brent and Central London Forward.
In their own words:
Since I left the comfort of full time employment with a local authority I have always had a Collaborate project on the go. Although much of my work is directly with local authorities (largely focusing on change, transformation and savings) I love my Collaborate projects which tend to focus on system activism and system change, facilitation of senior leadership away days, and partnership working. I am obsessed with all things local government, and relish complex and difficult problems, especially where relationships are tricky and there isn’t a clear solution. I tend to focus on getting stuff done, rather than talking about it.