Participle

Amelia is the Executive Assistant to the Principal Partners at Participle. After completing a law degree Amelia started her career at the Crown Prosecution Service working alongside PA Consulting on a Government pledge to halve the time it took to deal with persistent young offenders from arrest to sentence. Amelia has eight years senior level secretarial experience and has worked within many industries from the Public Sector, Education to Professional Services.

Be is our Studio Manager. She studied Fine Art and Art History, and following graduation spent 5 years as an artist in Cambridge selling her work through galleries and commissions. She took a Post Graduate course in delivering workshops and classes based around her work. Since her move to London 12 years ago she has worked in the graphics and fashion industries providing support and running departments.

Ceri’s background is in social enterprise and cultural change. Her current role is Project Lead – Families having recently acted as Interim Managing Director of Get-Together, a new enterprise developed by Participle to address loneliness in older people. Previously Ceri was Managing Director of Liberation CIC, a pioneering Fair Trade nut business and before that she worked on ground-breaking projects in health and education at the Design Council, before leading Designing Demand, a national programme to support innovation and creativity in UK businesses. Before this Ceri helped set up a local NGO in Equatorial Guinea focused on environment and sustainable development. This followed a number of years leading change programmes with clients such as ICI plc, Luton Airport and Nottingham City Council.

Daniel is a Project Entrepreneur currently building upon Participle´s project work on ageing to launch a social enterprise in Southwark that serves older people and their families. His career as a social entrepreneur began in Buenos Aires, Argentina as one of the founding directors of HelpArgentina, a pioneering online giving marketplace that connects donors and volunteers all over the world with innovative, high-impact social organizations in Argentina. His work there was recognized by Ashoka, Open Society Institute and the Ford Foundation. He has also worked with Zopa (UK), where he designed community-building initiatives for their social lending marketplace. He graduated with a BA in English from Williams College (US) and has worked in education and journalism. Prior to Participle, Daniel received an MBA from Oxford University´s Said Business School, where he concentrated on social enterprise design.

Emma is a Participle Designer. She studied product and furniture design at Kingston University during which she won the RSA Design Directions award for her project designed for bereaved people under the brief titled ‘Design for Debate’. Emma previously worked in the Design & Architecture department in the British Councils’ Arts team.

Jennie is one of Participle’s Lead Designers. Until recently Jennie was Senior Design Strategist for RED at the UK Design Council. As part of an interdisciplinary team of designers, social scientists and economists she developed a methodology for designing with end users and front-line workers to create new public services and delivery models. Prior to Participle she was project lead for Service Design agency live|work, who create user-centred, sustainable services for clients such as Experian, Norwich Union and the NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement. Jennie worked with live|work to develop their core innovation methodology for Primary Care Trusts. Jennie’s background is in product design and psychology and her work has won awards from the D&AD, the RSA, Germany’s Red Dot and the Australian Design Association. Jennie has worked for design groups in the UK, India, Australia and France.

Michael is the Operations Manager and prior to his current role worked with Participle as a Project Lead and Mentor. He has extensive management experience in service delivery issues and project/programme management. Michael’s experience derives from logistic operations service in the Australian Army, senior executive roles in the Queensland public sector and AVIS Australia plus work as a lawyer in Australia. His most recent appointments in Australia were as Assistant Director General of the Queensland Department of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Policy and also Assistant Director General in the Queensland Department of Communities. Michael has a great interest in coordinated service delivery in the public sector, practical outcomes for service users and unlocking the potential of a community to contribute to service delivery outcomes that make a difference.

Rabya is the Junior Project Manager for the Reach Out Youth Project. Since graduating from Warwick University in 2007 with a BA in Politics and International Relations she has interned at the House of Commons and worked as a Press and Communications officer for the Progressive British Muslims. She has worked extensively with young people with special needs in classroom, hospital and care environments focussing particularly on young people with Autistic Spectrum disorders.

Andrea is our Communication Designer, bringing Participle’s projects to life visually. After receiving her BFA in Graphic Design from Boston University in Massachusetts, Andrea worked six years at the City of Boston branding small businesses and city-wide programs. Working with architects, city planners, politicians, community leaders, small business owners and citizens gave her a chance to understand how design could play a part in revitalizing the city. Andrea recently completed her Masters in Creative Practice for Narrative Environments at Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design. This newly emerging field explores narrative theory in design and creates spaces designed around the user experience. In London, Andrea has worked on projects for the Royal Festival Hall, Central Saint Martins, Ralph Appelbaum Associates and Selfridges. Her graduate thesis, A Table of Two Cities, was recently shown at the London Design Festival 2009. 

Dan is our Associate social entrepreneur. He is a strategy consultant passionate about innovation and the mobilisation of social values as a force in the market. He is founder and CEO of startup ARK Mobile Finance, which is innovating credit scoring for m-banking based microfinance in African and Asian markets. ARK has received funding from the prestigious SBS Venture Fund. Dan is also founder and President of the Youth Business Development (YBD) Competition, inspiring youth worldwide to pursue social enterprise with support from mentors from elite MBA programs. Dan holds a BA Hons from the University of California, Berkeley, and a MBA from the University of Oxford.

Dr Tanya Murphy is our Associate specialising in monitoring and evaluation. Tanya is a social sector professional with over ten years of international experience in project management and organisation evaluation. She runs her own practice, evaluating projects in the social and public sectors. Recent evaluations include the Packington Families Project, a partnership approach to supporting families in Islington, Time Together, a project matching refugees and UK citizens in mentoring relationships, Digitall Manchester, a TimeBank project matching young savvy computer users with older people wanting to enter the digital age, and the London Voluntary Sector Council’s HR outreach project for small ethnic minorities.

Gerlinde works with Participle to formulate sustainable business models for the various projects. She has had a breadth of experience stretching from structured & project financing (BNP Paribas, CBA) to strategic consulting (McKinsey) to strategic project implementation (Orange, Yahoo!). Currently, she is also working on a start-up business, Zuztertu, that delivers education via mobile platforms. Gerlinde has a MBA from Harvard Business School and a B. Com (Hons) plus University Medal from the University of New South Wales.

Sara is one of our Project Leads and Strategic Thinkers, specialising in the understanding of the human developmental stages, value systems and societal frameworks that exist beneath what we believe and do – as individuals, within families, neighbourhoods, organisations and within society. Her focus is on creating new models for government that provide relevant and nurturing support for people and communities to build loving and independent lives. She has worked as a barrister, a social change agent in Aboriginal communities across Australia, a consultant on new ways of creating and innovating business and community as well as a meditation and healing teacher. She also has a long and much enjoyed ashtunga yoga practice and is committed to ‘walking the talk’. She holds a law degree with honours from University of Technology, Sydney and is about to complete a Masters degree in Public Policy from Sydney University long distance.

Sarah is Project Lead and our specialist in the area of Youth. She is a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University where she is completing her doctorate on participatory governance and bureaucratic reform. In 2005, Sarah graduated from Stanford University with a BA in Human Biology and a Masters in Education Policy. There, she co-chaired the University’s centre for community service and service learning. Sarah has worked as a consultant on youth participation for governments in three countries and ten states. For the past ten years Sarah has run Youth Infusion, a youth-run organization she started as a thirteen-year old that provides technical assistance and capacity building to organisations targeting youth, but not yet meaningfully engaging youth. In addition, Sarah has helped develop integrated health and education policy for all levels of government—from working with a US Congressman to the US Assistant Surgeon General to the city of San Francisco’s Department of Public Health.