Pears Foundation

Having studied law as an undergraduate, Olivia went on to complete an LLM in International Human Rights Law. She began her career as a policy and campaigns officer at the Consumers Association/Which?, followed by several years managing the University of Nottingham’s Human Rights Law Centre. She then joined the management team of the newly formed Social Enterprise UK working to embed social enterprise nationwide.

For the past 15 years Olivia has worked as a management consultant supporting socially minded organisations. She primarily works with small organisations helping them to maximise their potential and provides a range of support including organisational reviews, business and budget planning, feasibility studies (including mergers) and acting as a facilitator. Olivia also provides executive and staff team coaching. In particular, she assists senior leaders with their strategic planning and works with them to think through how best to operationalise their plans. Olivia’s approach is very practically focused and she acts as a ‘critical friend’ to those she supports, analysing decision making and offering an objective perspective which her clients find particularly beneficial.

In addition to her own practice, Olivia works with Pears to support a number of its grantees – both newly appointed senior executives and more experienced executives managing organisations in transition.