Avis joins the Board of Barnardo’s with considerable retail experience and, specifically, a strong background in retail transformation. Avis was based for eight years as a Partner at Accenture focusing on the retail and consumer products sector, where she delivered successful profitable growth engagements with many well-known national and international brands. Avis also founded her own management consulting practice in 2013 following four years as Director of Business Transformation at Sky where she established and led a team of business operations transformation experts. Prior to that Avis held business leadership roles at Arcadia, BHS, Mothercare and Littlewoods. Most recently Avis served as a Non-Executive Director at Moss Bros Group PLC until the business transferred to private ownership in June 2020. Avis also spent over a decade as a board member of retailTRUST, the key retail-orientated charity and continues her involvement with the charity as co-chair of their Ambassadors Group. Avis became a Trustee in December 2020.