"Chris spends her time solving hugely complex, often highly emotive problems that are rooted in everything from corporations to communities"
Giles Edwards
CEO and founder of …Gasp!
Hi, I’m Chris Paouros, a consultant, advisor, Charity Trustee and Non-Exec Director, specialising in strategy, leadership, culture, change and EDI. I work with organisations in the private, public and third sectors across their business, helping them change and grow.
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I am a strategic and commercially astute Business and Charity Leader with nearly 30 years of experience and a specialism in start-ups as well as re-invigorating and growing organisations on a global scale.
Services
Organisational transformation
​Design, definition, and co-implementation of change programmes for organisations, departments, and teams. Focusing on culture, underpinned by operational excellence.
Interim services
CEO/ COO interim.
Culture
Working alongside leaders to build, develop and refresh organisational cultures with a focus on values, inclusion and belonging—all underpinned by operational excellence.
Operations
Building functions and advising on finance (budgets, forecasting, P&L) HR, governance, processes, marketing and communications.
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Equity Diversity and Inclusion (EDI)
​Strategy and strategic direction; implementation and operationalisation; training, policies, planning advice.
Facilitation
Working with Boards/ Senior teams to help them tackle knotty topics/ answers questions and/ or take them through specific meetings, agenda items, away days.
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Strategy
​Strategic planning, definition and design of organisational strategy or indeed function—i.e fundraising strategy, comms strategy, HR strategy, finance strategy etc..
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Please contact me to find out more
You know your people, your work, and your organisation so the most important way to start any relationship, project or piece of work is by listening. Anything we do together will be driven by what you want to achieve, the problem you must solve or the questions you want to answer. My 25+ years of business experience will stand us in good stead to design a process, project, programme or training course that is bespoke to your work, team or organisation.
I can work alongside you, or with you. Some clients have knotty problems they want to unpick or specific projects they need help with so we’ll meet and I’ll plot out how I think we can deliver the project or solve the problem. Others need additional capacity or expertise in a particular area and I can provide that too.