I work on the gap between what organisations say they value and how they actually operate in practice.
For over two decades across global consulting, executive leadership, board governance, and founding my own ventures, the work has been the same: making the stated core values operational – and naming directly why they aren’t, yet.
I take on interim executive roles in organisations that need to change quickly and credibly. I advise leaders and boards on operational design, equity & equality, and the systems that bring values to life. And I speak about integrity and ‘truth’ in a society that still celebrates performative ‘success’.
How I work
Interim executive leadership. COO, transformation, and operational leadership for organisations in periods of change, crisis, or growth. Recent work includes reframing the theory of change and funding narrative for a European human rights organisation that faced significant challenges, repositioning it for sustainability.
Advisory and consulting. Shorter engagements on operational design, equity and equality strategy, governance, and the practical work of aligning what an organisation says with what it does. I work with charities, foundations, CICs, B Corps, and founder teams who want the work to be real, not performative. Recent partnerships include a year-long collaboration with YWCA Southeast Wisconsin delivering organisational culture development and an anti-racism curriculum.
Speaking and writing. Keynotes, panels, commissioned pieces, and podcast guesting on equity & equality, organisational and systemic change, and the operational craft of building more honest organisations.
Listen to the Equal Futures Podcast
A podcast for the conversations we should be having about what comes next — in business and in life. Each episode explores the questions our organisations, industries and leaders keep avoiding.
Other work
I founded Mission Equality CIC to rebuild the pipeline from learning to leadership — the one the education-to-employment system was meant to provide and doesn’t. We’re developing the skills people actually need to lead, individually, collectively and systemically, through a network of community learning hubs and a planet-building game, alongside our research, writing, and the Path to Equality newsletter.
I’m also building Ethixly, a values-alignment and accountability platform currently in development.
Get in touch
For interim, advisory, speaking or media enquiries: lea@leajovy.com