A just and equitable society
Our mission, as a nonprofit, is to contribute to this vision in two ways:
1. Support purpose-led organisations
To align practice with purpose, for greater integrity and lasting impact.
2. Support open & collective learning
By sharing knowledge openly, reflecting and adapting, alongside others.
Meet the team
The team brings decades of experience as leaders, facilitators, strategists, and changemakers in the social impact space.
Alex Cole-Hamilton
Director
Governance & ethics
Alex is an organisational integrity and governance specialist. She draws on experience as former Head of Ethics and Compliance for Oxfam GB, as the Governance Committee Chair for the Sophie Hayes Foundation, and from addressing corporate responsibility with the private sector. She has Gender & Development MA.
Desiree D’Souza
Director
Impact & partnerships
Desiree is a consultant shaping partnerships and inclusive programmes in health, education and employment in the UK and internationally. She has held senior roles at SeeAbility and Leonard Cheshire, is a partner at Cairney & Company, and serves as a trustee of Care International UK.
Maureen Grant
Director
Grant-making & racial justice
Maureen is a grantmaking specailist with over twenty years at the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust. Advocating for racial justice, community empowerment & environmental sustainability, she is a charity trustee and a community radio presenter – giving voice to underrepresented groups in the community.
Penny Lawrence
Director
Feminist leadership & organisational development
Penny is an accredited leadership coach for executives leading change in social justice & social enterprises. She draws on her own charity leadership & governance experience e.g. as Deputy Chief Executive at Oxfam GB and Chair of Refugee Action. She contributes to research on women’s leadership & power.
Janaki Mahadevan
Director
Equity, strategy & policy
Janaki is a strategy and social policy specialist with a focus on building structures and cultures that recognise power, centre community, equity and challenge injustice. She draws from experience as a charity CEO, a senior leader in local & regional government and a journalist within the media sector.
Colbert Ncube
Director
Equity, governance & systems change
Colbert is a senior healthcare leader with deep experience in NHS system reform, strategy and commissioning. His work spans mental health, integrated care and public health policy across the UK and the UAE, with a focus on governance, transformation and equity of outcomes.
Bhavika Patel
Co-Chair & Director
Culture, equity, diversity & inclusion
Bhavika is a Principal Business Psychologist and the former Head of Equalities at Oxfam GB. She helps boards turn equity into action. Bhav brings HR, culture and EDI expertise, using her MSc in Applied Positive Psychology and Coaching Psychology to shift leadership, systems of power & culture for real change.
Jethro Pettit
Co-Chair & Director
Applied power analysis & transformation
Jethro is an Emeritus Institute of Development Studies (IDS) Fellow, focusing on adult learning, inclusive participation, civil society, & governance. He draws on experience as IDS’s former Director of Teaching and as a trustee. He has a PHD in Action Research & MPHIL in Development.
Lizzie Williams
Director
Transformation, digital & audience engagement
Lizzie leads strategic change at the University of Sheffield. She also draws from experience as former Director of Transformation at Oxfam GB, where she navigated organisational challenges through complex change, to that align strategic priorities with organisational values and culture.
Our commitment to be the change we seek
Power-sensitive governance is at the heart of our aims, so our work is rooted in feminist and anti-oppression values, and a multi-dimensional understanding of power.
These with our Power & Integrity principles make up our Integrity Framework, informing how we work, and helping us live our name every day.
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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