Economic Change provides management solutions to help organistions improve their efficiency, sustainability and socio-economic impact.
We help our clients to develop their service offer, streamline business processes and evaluate their customer experience to ultimately maximise their impact.
We are passionate about supporting organisations that strive to make an impact by tackling an economic, social or environmental cause.
Our client list includes charities, educational bodies, pubic sector organisations, social enterprises, ethical businesses, and csr departments of organisations.
Our services focus on:-Business Strategy Development - We help management teams to research, evaluate and plan new approaches to their business and operational processes through assisting with market research and strategy development through offering a blend of coaching, consultancy and training services. Setting Up Management Systems – We work with management teams to assess their operational management needs and assist them to implement customised client management systems to manage and monitor operational activities using Salesforce CRM. Measuring Social Impact - We help our clients to develop a framework for defining and measuring their impact and offer an independent evaluation service to evaluate the impact of your organisation and services for funders or stakeholders.
We work with international, national and local brands and deliver one or all of our integrated services to clients.
Our client list includes:- ACEVO Solutions, 3SC, Locality, PRIME (Prince’s Trust Initiative for Mature Enterprise), timto, Co-operative College, Envision, Street League, CAF, Livity, Future Foundations, True Adventure, The Deborah Hutton Campaign, Global Action Plan, Social Enterprise North West, Peter Jones Enterprise Academy, Global Tolerance, Walk of Life Consultancy, Every Family Matters, Family Friends, The Philosophy Foundation, The Prince’s Trust, Akosia, Central St Martins University, The British Library, Social Firms UK, Belu Water, Bikeworks, BITC, Mind in Harrow, amongst others.
We are a member of Social Enterprise UK and the SROI network.
As a social enterprise we are passionate about helping organisations make a positive change in society through all of the work we do.
Between 2005 and 2012 Economic Change solely invested it's profits into Striding Out CIC, a social enterprise supporting young people to achieve their ambitions. In October 2012 Economic Change became a separate legal entity and as a Community Interest Company we now have our own social mission.
On an annual basis we are reinvesting our profit into a new social investment scheme which will be launching in 2014. This scheme will invest in innovative social enterprises that are tackling a specific cause. A cause will be chosen each year based on the global need and desires of our team. The application process will be launched in 2014, so watch this space.
Economic Change CIC is led by Heather Black (nee Wilkinson) and supported by a team of associate of specialist consultants to meet the needs of our clients.
Heather Black, Managing Director As an Economic Development Consultant, Heather has undertaken market research studies, developed social impact frameworks and conducted independent evaluations for socio-economic projects since 2000. Clients include third and public sector bodies. She has established primary and secondary research skills and has experience in producing independent published reports for stakeholders.Heather is trained in Salesforce Administrator, Advanced Administrator and Consultancy Skills by Salesforce.com She has worked with and supported many charities and social enterprises to implement salesforce CRM and partner apps across business functions. Heather founded a social enterprise called Striding Out CIC in 2005, which developed as a franchise nationally, securing contracts with a turnover of £2.5m. As the CEO she managed all business functions from marketing, contract management to measuring impact. She is a trained and qualified business coach and has supported over 250 social entrepreneurs on a one to one business and provided business training to over 2000 budding and established entrepreneurs since 2005. Prior to founding her own social enterprise, she worked at GHK and EDAW Consultancy Firms, The Corporation of London, Business in the Community, and Hertfordshire TEC/LSC.Heather is a Council Member of Social Enterprise UK, Fellow of the RSA, and has won a number of awards including the Social Enterprise Mentor of the Year 2006, Edge Upstart AwardsVisit her Linked In Profile http://uk.linkedin.com/pub/heather-black/1/455/614/
AssociatesHoward Joseph, Market Research ProfessionalElaine Owen, Business Strategy and Social Media Emma Barty, Qualified Accountant and Financial Analyst Paula Gardner, Social Media and PR ProfessionalTamsin Fielden, Marketing Professional Richard Buxton, HR and Recruitment ExpertRobyn Peel, Business Strategy Coach Claire Sharpen, Business Management and Operations
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