Radical Leadership in a Changing World - Speakers

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Ruth Davison

Charity Consultant and Stategist

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Ruth is a respected strategist and leader, Ruth with over 20 years’ experience of delivering growth, change and positive impact with and for charities and purpose-led organisations.

Ruth built her career in fundraising, winning multiple awards for her innovation and results, before transitioning from fundraising to philanthropy.

Ruth joined Comic Relief to lead their global grant-making, social impact investing and advocacy and was promoted to Interim Chief Executive and led the organisation through Covid-19. Ruth’s career as a CEO continued as joined Refuge where she developed their first multi-year strategy, transformed their internal culture, secured vital new funds as well as delivering significant policy change through advocacy and campaigning.

Ruth has served on the Boards of multiple major non-profit organisations including Oxfam GB and Greenpeace UK. She currently serves on the Board of the UK’s National Emergencies Trust.
After a year working in the private sector, leading global impact for The Conduit, Ruth now works across charities, grant-makers and purpose-led organisations, supporting them to increase their sustainability and impact. She is also a regular columnist for DSC and New Food Magazine.

Adeela Warley OBE

CEO, CharityComms

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Adeela has been CEO of CharityComms since 2017. She is passionate about the strategic role of communications in driving social change and helping support a thriving community of communications professionals to share and learn together.

Adeela has over 20 years’ experience in charity communications across multiple skills and functions: strategic planning, market research, media, PR, events, brand, publishing and digital. Before joining CharityComms, she led the development of organisational communications, brand, and audience strategies for Friends of the Earth, putting them at the heart of the charity’s campaigning success and supporter engagement.

Adeela was awarded an OBE in 2021, for services to charity communications and is a Fellow of the RSA and an ACEVO mentor.