Leaders in Social Impact organisations are navigating increasing complexity, financial pressure and continuous change, while remaining focused on the people and communities they exist to serve.
The challenge is not simply having the right strategy or resources in place. It is how leaders lead, how teams work together and whether people have the capacity, trust and support they need to deliver on their mission.
Social impact is shaped by more than strategy, funding and structures.
People experience an organisation through how leaders lead, how teams work together, how decisions are made and whether trust exists. These everyday experiences shape the culture of an organisation and its ability to deliver on its mission.
We help organisations understand what sits beneath these experiences, making the patterns that shape leadership, relationships and culture visible enough to work with.
A leadership challenge may really be about trust. A team struggling to deliver may be facing competing priorities, unclear accountability or change fatigue.
A strategy may be sound but struggle to translate into meaningful action. We help organisations look beneath the surface to understand the relationships, behaviours and cultural patterns shaping their effectiveness, before deciding what needs to change.
Who are we? What has shaped us? How do others experience us? What are we trying to become?
We explore these questions at individual, team and organisational level, helping leaders understand how their assumptions, behaviours and relationships shape the culture of their organisation. Because self-awareness shapes leadership, leadership shapes relationships, and repeated relationships shape culture.
Meet the Social Impact
Collective Partners
We use the intelligence behind Prism to understand what's needed, then bring together the right combination of expertise from the We Are Collective team - specifically chosen with you and for you.
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Luke Squires
SOCIAL IMPACT PARTNER
A corporate and charity leader across the commercial and social impact sectors, supported by a triple‑accredited diploma in coaching and positive psychology. Luke brings a strong track record in income generation and multi‑million‑pound partnership building from senior roles across leading UK charities to his coaching, helping leaders and teams unlock strengths, navigate complexity and create sustainable impact. -
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Justin Humphreys
SOCIAL IMPACT PARTNER
Justin is an internationally recognised safeguarding and leadership specialist who helps organisations create safer, healthier environments. Drawing on three decades of experience across faith communities, charities and humanitarian organisations, he helps boards and executives align culture, strategy, practice and people. Former CEO of a Christian safeguarding charity, he brings strategic insight to organisational challenges.
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Heather Barrington
SOCIAL IMPACT PARTNER
Heather is a qualified Transformative Coach who helps people discover their strengths, overcome challenges and reach their full potential. Drawing on coaching experience across the charity, business and church sectors, she creates supportive, compassionate spaces where people can grow, flourish and make meaningful change. She helps people build confidence, gain self-understanding and embrace lasting change.
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Nigel Langford
SOCIAL IMPACT PARTNER
Nigel develops leaders who are navigating pressure, change, and big decisions. With two decades of executive leadership, organisational development, and coaching experience, he helps leaders sharpen their purpose, and build healthier teams and culture. From emerging leaders to senior executives, Nigel enables leaders by bringing clarity, strategic insight, and the practical tools needed to lead with confidence. -
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Scott Halligan
SOCIAL IMPACT PARTNER
Scott is passionate about developing leaders who build thriving teams. Drawing on more than 20 years' leadership experience across education, charity and corporate sectors, he helps organisations bring strategic clarity, develop their people and navigate growth with confidence. He equips leaders to become deeper thinkers and better problem solvers, ready for future challenges and opportunities.
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Mark Billage
SOCIAL IMPACT PARTNER
Mark is the founder of Smart Culture Ltd, an ICF accredited executive coach and author of I See You. With over 30 years of leadership experience, he coaches founders, directors and senior leadership teams to lead with greater clarity, confidence and impact by focusing first on who they are as leaders. He specialises in helping introverted leaders develop authentic, values-led leadership that starts from the inside out.
Every organisation has people, strengths and possibilities that are not always fully realised.
We start by understanding what helps people do their best work and what may be getting in the way, looking at leadership, relationships, culture, systems and everyday experience.
From there, we shape our support around what the organisation needs, whether that means strengthening leadership, developing teams, navigating change or building a healthier organisational culture.
Our aim is to create the conditions where people can contribute fully, teams can work effectively together, and organisations can turn their purpose into meaningful, lasting impact.
Leading people and organisations
Working with CEOs, headteachers and senior leaders on leadership through change, role transition and organisational growth. This includes executive development, coaching and helping leaders understand how who they are shapes the way they lead and the experience they create for others.
Building stronger teams and relationships
Helping teams strengthen trust, navigate difficult conversations and build shared accountability. By understanding how people work together, we help leaders identify strengths, address tensions and create the conditions for more effective collaboration.
Creating coherent cultures through change
Supporting organisations through growth, change and transformation without losing sight of their purpose. We help leaders understand the culture their people experience, align everyday behaviours with organisational values and turn intention into practice.
Strengthening organisational health and impact
Helping purpose-driven organisations understand how leadership, trust, collaboration and culture shape their ability to deliver on their mission. We make the people dynamics beneath organisational performance more visible, so leaders can strengthen engagement, sustain healthy teams and increase their impact in the communities they serve.
Developing people and embedding learning
Building leadership capability and coaching cultures through development that goes beyond training alone. We create opportunities for people to reflect, learn and apply new approaches in practice, helping individuals and teams grow in ways that support lasting organisational change.
See your team differently.
Understand what's driving performance.
Know where to focus.
Bring the right people around the challenge.
Measure what changes.
Human potential. Strategically activated. Together.
See your team differently.
Understand what's driving performance.
Know where to focus.
Bring the right people around the challenge.
Measure what changes.
Human potential. Strategically activated. Together.