At a time of unprecedented pressures and uncertainties, getting the best from your board and senior team is essential. Too many organisations lose out by not investing in their key people, resulting in weak governance, under-performance, and even business failure.
Joanna Davey Consulting can provide the unique expertise to markedly improve your board’s performance, rigorously review your strategic planning, and boost the effectiveness of your senior staff.
Joanna has a strong track record in enabling boards to ‘up their game’ becoming forward-looking boards that make high quality decisions to ensure an organisation’s success.
Clients also find coaching of chairs, CEOs, and directors to be invaluable.
Based near Wells, Somerset, Joanna works in the South West, South Wales, and London with a wide variety of organisations including housing associations, charities, and from the public sector.
Working with Joanna you can be assured of:
Proven executive coaching
Joanna enables her clients to be effective, be themselves, and tap into their potential, during periods of transition, either for them or for their organisations. Read more...
Governance advice and strategic planning support
Clients choose Joanna to enhance their governance through board member appraisals, board performance reviews, and coaching. Joanna’s skills as a facilitator are invaluable in drawing out key issues and identifying options so clients can make strategic decisions with confidence. Read more...
Partnership establishment and development
Joanna has helped partnerships effectively address people and policy issues. By drawing on the diverse skills and experiences in partner organisations she enables partnerships to tap into their potential synergy and tackle complex problems. Read more...
I’ve engaged Joanna on a number of occasions particularly for facilitating and developing challenging multi-agency partnership arrangements. She has approached this work in an open and engaging manner, winning the trust and participation of her audience whilst steadily moving participants toward clearly defined goals. She approaches facilitation in a calm, unruffled manner and has a way of building trust and collaboration even when addressing difficult issues – she has certainly helped us develop stronger relations for partnership working which have led us onto bigger and better things.
Simon Lewis, Assistant Director, Housing and Community Development of Taunton Deane Borough Council and West Somerset Council
Joanna helped the ACE Board develop its 5 year Business Plan. We now feel excited about the future. We are extremely grateful for her helping us to move on so positively, and due to her expertise, ACE is now in a much better position to face the challenges ahead.
Maddy Milnes, Company Secretary, Avalon Community Energy, Glastonbury
Joanna has helped us review and reinvigorate our governance structure. She worked in a sensitive way which blended her experience and authority whilst enabling the organisation to remain in the ‘driving seat’ throughout. The Board is now fully engaged in a thoughtful and achievable process of change. The Board members frequently cite Joanna as the key agent of change.
Mark Graham, Chief Exec., For All Healthy Living Company, Weston-super-Mare