About us
Meet our growing virtual team. We are independent purpose-led sector professionals with a shared vision and strong resolve to help the organisations have greater impact by putting integrity at the heart of everything they do.
Alex Cole-Hamilton
Ethics frameworks, policy and strategy
Alex is an organisational integrity consultant. She draws on experience as former Head of Ethics and Compliance for Oxfam GB, as a trustee for the Sophie Hayes Foundation, and addressing corporate responsibility with the private sector. She has an MA in Gender and Development.
Desiree D’Souza
Impact and partnerships
Desiree is Executive Director of Innovation and Social Impact at SeeAbility and a trustee for Care International UK. She works in partnership with disabled people, both in the UK and internationally, to fundraise, design and deliver inclusive programmes. Desiree has an MSC in Environment and Development.
Penny Lawrence
Organisational development and feminist leadership
Penny is Chair of Refugee Action and a coach for executives leading change in social justice and social enterprises. She contributes to and facilitates research on women’s leadership and power. Penny draws on experience as former Deputy Chief Executive at Oxfam GB and training from the European Mentoring and Coaching Council (EMCC).
Patricia Moreira
Governance, organisational design and transformation
Patricia is an executive coach and consultant supporting organisations at an executive and strategic level. She draws on experience as an executive director at Transparency International, CEO at Ayuda en Accion and consultant for the private sector. She has an MBA from INSEAD.
Bhavika Patel
Culture, equity, diversity and inclusion
Bhavika Patel is currently the Interim Co-Head of Equalities for Oxfam GB. She brings HR, culture, and EDI experience with practical expertise in understanding power in relation to EDI and organisational ways of working. Bhav has an MSC in applied positive coaching psychology.
Jethro Pettit
Applied power analysis, transformative change
Jethro is an Emeritus Institute of Development Studies (IDS) Fellow, focusing on adult learning, inclusive participation, civil society, and governance. He also draws on experience as IDS’s former Director of Teaching and as a trustee. He has a PHD in Action Research and MPHIL in Development Studies.
Aqsa Suleman
Racial equity, policy and governance
Aqsa is a member of the Action for Trustee Racial Diversity Network and an Advocacy Caseworker at BLAM Charity (Black Learning Achievement and Mental Health). She draws on experience working with trustees to influence change and her drive to embed racial equity across culture, leadership and systems of power. She holds an LLB in Law.
PI principles
Our commitment to be the change we seek
Power-sensitive governance is at the heart of our aims, so we’ve carefully considered how we should work and have agreed two sets of principles:
- We’ve adopted feminist leadership principles to guide our behaviour and culture. Developed by Srilatha Bathliwala, they embody power sensitivity and self-awareness. The principles foster diversity and inclusion. We will apply them with a specific commitment to acknowledge and dismantle all forms of bias.
- For our structure and how we take decisions, we’ve taken inspiration from sociocractic principles. We decide by consent, not by consensus, through a process of rounds. This creates space for each voice and perspective. More information on this process and its benefits can be found on Sociocracy For All’s site.
Our approach is rooted in feminist and anti-oppression principles long with a multi-dimensional understanding of power.
PI Feminist principles
Feminist principles guide us in the way we work together. We recognise all these principles must be held together even if some may be in tension.
- Self-aware – ‘put your ego in the passenger seat’. Seek to engage and contribute, ‘everyone is able’, everyone has ideas to share
- Self-care and caring for others – take care of your physical and emotional needs first, then support one another to enable us all to reach our individual, organisational and collective goals and renewal
- Dismantle bias – check your own privilege – work to explore your own biases
- Inclusion – create ways for everyone to be heard in our action research
- Share power – lead to transform others – enable leadership across structures to enable everyone to succeed
- Responsible and transparent use of power – guide and enable others. Understand your own power share your ambition, concerns and vulnerability to enable others to do the same
- Accountable collaboration– bring your whole self to your task and to our meetings, offer and ask for help. Make commitments you can keep or let us know in good time if you can’t
- Respectful feedback – feedback is a gift, an opportunity to grow
- Courage – be brave, seek transformative change – take risks to grow, ‘make failure your fuel’
- Zero tolerance – for any form of discrimination or abuse of power – challenge arrogance within ourselves and our organisation
- Confidentiality of meetings – Chatham House rule (what is said in the room can be generalised to be shared but should not be identified with individuals without their prior permission)
- Commitment to the vision and mission of Pi – of an open sourced, co-created, dynamic approach that can enable sector wide changes
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