About
Sometimes having a new perspective can make all the difference.
We’re a diverse and flexible team of change-makers and problem-solvers: business, sustainability, and non-profit strategy, advisory, and communications consultants with broad, lived experience gleaned from careers in a range of sectors. We’re united by our passion to help business and society work better, smarter, and faster together through transformative Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) strategies, thoughtful collaboration, and effective cross-sector partnerships.
Decades of experience
C&E Advisory has decades-long experience of helping purposeful businesses, non-profits, foundations, and philanthropists to navigate business, social and environmental risks, challenges, and opportunities – and come out more resilient and relevant. We challenge and support organisations to put purpose firmly at the heart of what they do, and design intelligent strategies and programmes to deliver inclusive, sustainable impact and value for all stakeholders.
We believe
- People always come first
and that our health is inextricably linked with the health of our planet - In the principle of cause and effect
all actions and inactions have consequences and that when an issue becomes a cause it can better galvanise sustainable action and greater impact - Being a good business is good business
- Having a compelling purpose
or mission is necessary, but not in itself sufficient: a purpose, mission, or cause should deliver sustainable, high-impact change & effect - In the creative power of diverse perspectives
when individuals, organisations or sectors come together to solve problems at scale - Solutions with depth
integrity, authenticity, and transparency are our holy grail - Curiosity is essential
and we must never stop learning!
Manny Amadi, MVO
Building on a diverse career spanning the corporate, non-profit sectors, and cross-sector consulting, Manny founded C&E fuelled by his determination to help place societal consideration at the heart of business purpose and practice – and to help speed the mission of non-profits to greater impact. Manny advises, coaches, writes about, and catalyses effective action on a wide variety of ‘business and society’ issues including sustainable business, transformation strategy, stakeholder engagement, diversity & inclusion, social innovation, and levelling up communities.
He is skilled in convening and scaling peer collaborations to enhance collective impact and facilitating valuable dialogue between previously antagonistic companies and NGOs. He has worked with some of the world's foremost businesses, NGOs, Trusts, Foundations, and high impact philanthropists.
As an enthusiastic supporter of young people, Manny has served on the boards of several leading youth organisations; was the Lead Founder of The Charter School, East Dulwich, and a driving force behind the establishment and growth of The Charter Schools Educational Trust (the Trust educates nearly 5,000 pupils across six highly respected inclusive, non-selective community state schools, drawing on its Teacher Training School and Research School hubs to strengthen diverse local communities across south London). He is a Founding Trustee of Mission Beyond – a charity focused on addressing the UK’s social mobility challenge by connecting 1 million underrepresented young people to real jobs via Open Doors, a national digital infrastructure.
A Fellow of the RSA, Manny was awarded an MVO (Member of the Royal Victorian Order) in 1999 by the Queen, for services to the community in support of disadvantaged young people. He is married and feels lucky to have four much beloved sons.
Meet the team
Alex Oliver
A strategy and coaching professional with many years’ experience spanning public, private and not-for-profit sectors, Alex uses her facilitation, coaching and behaviour change expertise to help clients achieve better outcomes. Her lived experience throughout her career is that social interests are often best served when non-profit and commercial sectors collaborate for the common good.
Alex spent the early part of her career in the private sector with international strategy roles in consultancy, media and financial services. Inspired by a desire to drive positive social change, Alex moved to the UK Government’s Cabinet Office where she led a major cross-government Service Transformation workstream.
She spent time with global consultancy Kantar, where she headed up a UK public sector team and later supported the global government consultancy, Kantar Public (now Verian), as a Board Advisor, across strategy, innovation, and team development projects.
Today, Alex runs an executive coaching practice working with ambitious leaders and teams who want to get more out of life, achieve bigger goals, and transform their businesses and communities. A highly experienced facilitator, Alex has designed and held hundreds of workshops for stakeholders at all levels up to Board.
Fluent in French and semi-fluent in Spanish, Alex has an MBA from INSEAD, is certified as a Co-Active coach (CPCC and PCC) and has studied positive psychology, neuroscience of change, and systemic team coaching.
Anna Beyer
Anna is a transformation leader with 13+ years’ experience of leading complex transformation programmes across industry sectors (FTSE 100, major public sector & non-profit sector clients). She has deep expertise in operating model and change, having worked extensively with Executive Teams to turn their strategy into action. Anna spent most of her career in Deloitte’s organisation design practice, leading high profile transformation engagements for clients such as Transport for London, the Department for Work and Pensions and the Home Office. During this time, she led Deloitte’s future of work proposition, advising clients on the role of AI, robotics and the gig economy in the future world of work.
Moving to Sky, as Head of Transformation, she worked with their streaming businesses to improve international integration and set them up for growth. This included a secondment to Sky’s German business, where she led the market’s core transformation programme. Anna is passionate about gender equality and about the positive impact business can have in our world, both in terms of our planet and the communities they interact with.
Anna Cooper
Anna is a seasoned Programme Manager for C&E, bringing her professional skills of research, analysis, governance awareness, stakeholder engagement and creative problem-solving to benefit projects. She has led Programme Management for C&E programmes with UNHCR and Burberry, offering teams her strategic know-how, as well as her ability to roll up her sleeves and deliver work accurately and at pace.
Anna has a BSc in International Relations & History from The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), which included a period studying Mandarin in China. Previous roles have included experience as Research Assistant at LSE, and Associate Director of Strategy at BCB Group, a leading provider of business accounts and trading services for the digital asset economy, where Anna also gained experience as Shadow Board Member.
Charli Kumar
Charli is a transformational leader and executive coach, with a passion for sustainability.
Her 20 years' experience spans commercial, strategy and transformation in the dynamic European media industry.
She holds a degree in Economics and Management from the University of Oxford and started her career in strategy consultancy with Marakon Associates in the UK and US. Building on this, she worked in strategic roles at ITV, the UK’s largest commercial broadcaster.
She then held various UK and European senior leadership roles at Sky TV, including overseeing two of Sky’s streaming subscription businesses and spearheading its first organic market entry into Spain, which laid the groundwork for the pan-European Sky Showtime service. During time in Germany, she successfully transformed Sky Ticket (now WOW) into a robust, end-to-end growth business.
Charli has steered multiple end-to-end sales and service platform transformations, implementing Agile methodologies, and managed numerous complex, cross-functional transformation programmes - from marketing to data, kids’ content to advertising. She currently lives in Munich.
Charlotte Hillenbrand
Charlotte is a purposeful leader driving product development, innovation, and tech transformation across consultancy, agencies, charities, and start-ups.
With skills bridging business and product strategy, digital transformation and building Learning Organisations, Charlotte has a natural bias for action, making products as a vehicle for change and advocacy. She works to create positive impact, grow talent, increase productivity and spread happiness at work.
Charlotte’s career has spanned roles including as Director of Learning delivering the Professional Development programme at Made by Many, an award-winning London-based strategic digital product partner. The consultancy delivered high profile innovation projects for the likes of Universal Music Group, TED, Skype, WEF and adidas to explore and deliver digital innovation. She was also the first Digital & Innovation executive for UK charity Comic Relief, reducing fundraising platform costs by 65% in under a year, leading a cross-organisational Values refresh project and bringing the Digital & Innovation directorate to collaborate more closely with the charity's business and fundraising teams.
Charlotte is currently Fractional CEO of youth social mobility social enterprise, Mission Beyond working to connect the UK's fragmented social mobility ecosystem to help address the UK's lack of social mobility at scale.
Chloe Meredith
Chloe is a skilled Programme Manager for C&E, keeping projects and teams on-track to deliver impactful outcomes for a range of clients.
She has worked in the charity sector for over 20 years, specialising in inclusive heritage, with a keen interest in the intersection between cultural identity and social and environmental justice. Her work has focussed on the legacies and impact of colonialism and enduring colonial mindsets on cultural organisations and communities, and she has a Masters in Sustainable Cultural Heritage Management. Chloe has held strategic learning, engagement and fundraising roles at the Churches Conservation Trust and Ambitious about Autism.
Her career has taken her overseas, where roles have included supporting the Aboriginal elders of the Wurundjeri Tribe Cultural Heritage Council in Australia; Specialist Advisor to the development of a new Peace Museum in Cambodia; and designing remembrance experiences for visitors to WWII and POW sites for the Thai Tourism Authority.
Chloe is a member of the Church of England’s Contested Heritage Committee, an advisory body to the Church Buildings Council, focussing on church monuments with links to Britain’s historic trade and trafficking of enslaved African people. A keen environmentalist, she also grows low-impact seasonal cut flowers for florists and events.