Eastside People
Mona Vadher FRSA serves as the Head of Strategy at Progress Together, a not-for-profit organization aiming to enhance diversity in the UK financial services sector. In addition to this role, Mona works as a Consultant for Eastside People and as an Associate for Gradcore, focusing on capacity building and graduate coaching. Previously, Mona held positions such as Director at LMP Action CIC, where significant operational scaling and funding were achieved, and Senior Policy & Programme Manager at City of London Corporation, where impactful policies addressing socio-economic diversity were developed. Academia experience includes serving as Head of Employer Engagement at City, University of London, where strategic employer partnerships were established. Mona holds a Bachelor of Science in Chemistry from the University of Birmingham and has completed further education in corporate social responsibility.
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Eastside People
Eastside People is a community of experienced professionals focused on helping charity, not-for-profit and social enterprise leaders to build the capacity and impact of their organisations. Through our consultancy and recruitment services we provide consultants, interims, mentors, senior executives and board members, giving social sector organisations access to the very best senior level capacity. Our services include consultancy for strategy, governance, AI, Merger and Partnership, Impact Measurement and Evaluation, Income Generation and Social Investment projects plus Board and Permanent Recruitment and provision of experienvced Interim Managers. We care passionately about results and what gets implemented in the real world recognising that the difference we make is the change that sticks. We therefore draw on our own experiences and lessons from over 2,600 consulting and recruitment projects, so that our clients gain access to better insights about how to make organisational change sustainable. Our team is made up of over 100 highly skilled individuals who are passionate about using their skills and knowledge to bring about social change. We are recognised as one of the top social enterprises in the country featuring in the Natwest SE100 Index and have a Foundation which provides an alignment of purpose with the clients we serve. We are proud to contribute to the ecology of social sector infrastructure being a corporate partner to ACEVO, a member of Social Enterprise UK, a capacity building provider for various Foundations such as Power to Change and Lloyds Bank Foundation, and certified as a Good Finance adviser.