HANGING ON TO MISSION THROUGH CHANGE

HONOR WILSON-FLETCHER - CEO, BRITISH EXPLORING

How do you respond effectively to significant external change without losing sight of your purpose or your core strengths as a team? 

And how might you go about keeping key partners and stakeholders on-side while you pivot? 

Let’s share and discuss the experience of two charitable organisations I have steered through change. 

Honor joined British Exploring Society as CEO  in February 2016. Previous roles include 6 years as CEO of the  Aldridge Foundation, two years at the National Literacy Trust, where she worked on behalf of the Department for Education as Director of the 2008 National Year of Reading.  Before working as a Director at Southbank Centre and the British Museum in brand, marketing and membership roles, she worked as Head of PR at Waterstone’s, as Associate publisher at Transworld, Sales and Marketing Director at Hodder Children’s Books and in various roles at Penguin and in online editorial with BOL.com, she started two businesses of her own in her twenties.  She continues to serve as a trustee or adviser for a number of charitable boards including as Safeguarding trustee for Catch-22 and as an advisor to Skills Builder.