Philippa Fabry – Director of Not-for-Profit Practice

Allison Trimble
Director of Leadership

 

Allison is a personal and organisational development consultant with over 25 years' experience in the health and social care sector. She has extensive experience of working with senior leaders in the public and private sectors as well as working with frontline and community-based leaders. Allison specialises in personal and organisational development using a range of methodologies including whole systems ideas, 1:1 coaching and peer learning activities.

Allison is a founder member and former chief executive of the Bromley-by-Bow Centre, an integrated health and community regeneration organisation in Tower Hamlets. Allison was responsible for setting up the Centre’s Community Care Programme and used learning from this initiative to develop the distinctive approach to community ownership and participation which underpins the Centre’s leadership model.

Allison’s clients have included:

  • National Skills Academy for Social Care: leadership development adviser 2010; Director of programmes for New Directors of Adult Social Services and Top Leaders Programme.
  • NCSL (National College for School Leadership): Associate Consultant including leadership programmes for school leaders including a pilot systems leadership programme for national leaders of education.
  • Kings Fund: Associate Fellow. Faculty for a range of leadership development programmes including the Top Managers Programme (TMP) for senior NHS and Social Care Leaders and the Kings Fund/GSK IMPACT programme for community leaders.
  • SCIE: leadership development programmes for senior social care managers and front line managers in the Independent social care sector.
  • CIHM (Centre for Innovation in Health Care Management), Leeds University Business School: OD Associate including Leading Systems Transformation Programme in Yorkshire and the Humber, an SHA programme for 75 senior NHS leaders across the region.
  • South East Coast Strategic Health Authority: Proof of concept project into barriers to inclusive leadership in the NHS, a national DH pilot plus follow up leadership programme to build equalities and diversity capability in SEC NHS organisations.