Elizabeth is a strategist to the marrow, taking this to project planning, organisational development, visioning, management, participation, fundraising and more. She has worked with 100s of organistions at key developmental changes and relishes the complicted conundrums of people and structures.

Elizabeth is a Director of Gray-King & Gray Ltd, enabling social inclusion by organisational development and research. As projects manager, research designer and an organisational development expert, she teaches Practical Project Management for the Directory of Social Change, and Social Enterprise for Oxford Women's Training in their SEEDA contract for the South East. With years of experience helping UK online centres and budding social enterprises and community organisations through Direct Support, Community Matters, the Community Action Network and other networks, she is passionate about people within organisations having the understanding to know how social businesses work and being in a position to make changes. She has contributed to the New Opportunities Fund Sustainability Guide, the net:gain strategy workbook and has created guidance for Our Partnernship. She has created business planning tools, marketing tools, evaluation tools and much for users of Experts Online. In addition to the DSC, training and support have included work with Social Enterprise London, UnLtd, Faith Regen Support and Social Firms UK.

With colleagues, Elizabeth is part of the GKG Collective, helping people participate in their communities and organisations. A team of Participation specialists with skills and training in participatory appraisal (developing countries and UK); they created a toolkit for participation for Citizen's Advice Bureaux and are presently evaluating a social enterprise programme for young people, training the young people in participation methods.

With a BA (Fine Arts), CTh and MEd /PGDip (Management) Elizabeth is a member of the Social Research Association and chairs the Oxford Social Enterprise Forum and the Oxford Healthy Living Partnership. She has been a Non-Executive Director with Oxford City Primary Care Trust. Working life began with 10 years in private sector marketing and management, team building and training followed by 17 years in the public and voluntary sector, mostly as ordained minister in the United Reformed Church and a Community Development worker. She is a part time training officer for the United Reformed Church, responsible for training for newly ordained or commissioned ministers.

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