Liv comes from the FMCG/ Food and Beverage sector, where she worked largely in product/brand innovation within the health/nutrition space. This led her to appreciate the potential of cross sector partnerships, and the private sector’s vital role in achieving sustainable development. Working in partnership with key stakeholders, she also became aware of the challenges involved […]

  Ruth is Associate Director of Research and Learning with The Partnering Initiative, where she has worked for the past five years. She develops and runs partnering programmes for a range of clients including UN agencies and INGOs, as well as carrying out partnership evaluations and research. In her previous role, as Development Director with […]

Jenny is a sustainability and partnerships practitioner with 16 years’ experience in collaborative working across the private, NGO and education sectors. Founder of specialist innovation and sustainability consultancy Oak Grove Associates, she has a particular focus on responsible growth and new business models, strategy and capacity building for organisations. Former Head of Environmental Sustainability at […]

Darian Stibbe is an internationally-recognised pioneer in multi-stakeholder collaboration, developing much of the theory and practice of partnering now being integrated as standard into partnerships and organisations around the world. His cutting-edge conceptual work makes sense of complexity, building much needed clarity on everything from how partnerships can deliver more than the sum of their […]