Natalie is a Principal Consultant at Cordis Bright. She specialises in leading research, consultancy and evaluations that apply systems approaches to support organisations to understand complex social issues.
“One of the most satisfying aspects of my role is working with clients to make systems thinking accessible and useful. I enjoy co-creating the approach, so they gain insights and confidence from applying our tools to navigate their strategic and day-to-day challenges.”
Natalie applies her systems expertise to multi-sector, deeply rooted challenges, such as homelessness, youth employment, physical inactivity, cross-sector partnership working, and health inequalities,.
Her recent work includes leading our contributions to the system-wide evaluation of homelessness provision for the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government. This includes not just system mapping but also embedding systems thinking across the programme of work. Natalie also leads our evaluations and action learning for Youth Futures Foundation on young people’s employment challenges, building capacity in local partnerships to incorporate learning and ways of understanding system change.
Before joining Cordis Bright, Natalie was an assistant professor at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, where she led the systems workstream of a multi-million-euro project on adolescent obesity, across six countries, training researchers and producing reports for the European Commission and peer-reviewed publications.
Natalie has a BA in Social Anthropology and Arabic (Cambridge), an MA in Medical Anthropology (Sussex), an MPhil in Public Health (Cambridge) and a PhD in Public Health (London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine).
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