I’m celebrating a couple of anniversaries – it’s two years since I embarked on my new life as a consultant, and a year since I established my company Amplify Science. It’s been fantastic working with such a variety of health and science charities, helping them articulate their ambitions and grow their impact. When I started out I wrote a post describing the kind of work I wanted to do.  https://lnkd.in/ekbuqY8W The plan was to support health and science charities with smart s

I’ve just started working on my seventh strategy project at a health charity. It’s enough to know that each is unique and that I’ve still got plenty to learn. But while each charity will face its own challenges as it develops a new organisational or research strategy, there are definitely some common themes. Here are three thoughts for starters: Listen to your community – people always surprise Health charities are often in close touch with patient re presentatives, and they

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I have some news to  share. I have now registered my company, Amplify Science.  And I've also built a website... nothing fancy, but...