work with me
a unique combination of
Fundraising & Comms, Senior Leadership, Workplace Culture, and Colleague Wellbeing
focus & expertise
I've got 19 years' of in-house charity fundraising, comms and senior leadership experience. Plus I've got 6 years of laser-focus on culture and wellbeing in those fundraising, comms and senior leadership arenas.
I've 'walked the walk'. I understand just how amazing it is to work in the charity sector. I also understand the challenges you face and how it feels.
My cause expertise ranges across Youth, Arts, Heritage Caring, Education and International Development.
I know that every team and every organisation is different. I tailor our work to ensure it meets the needs and demands of those differences. Even my signature programmes all have a bespoke element to them. Choosing to work with me means choosing knowledge and experience.
I offer a unique portfolio of consultancy, training & coaching, interim, research & intelligence, speaking & workshops, and peer forums, the learning from which helps to inform and influence my work in all other areas, and ensures ongoing learning for me as well.
why choose claire?
Claire Warner is an award-winning Roffey Park Institute and Management Centre-trained management specialist and a member of the Institute of Leadership and Management.
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In a successful 19-year career as a fundraising & comms senior leader, Claire led her colleagues to raising more than £70 million for capital & revenue projects. But she found her real passion and her joy in interim team trouble-shooting roles and in managing and mentoring more than 100 fundraising and communications professionals, supporting many of them into managerial and leadership roles themselves.
In 2018, Claire founded Lift, a consultancy which helped organisations to develop their own way of delivering incredible results whilst lifting, not breaking, their staff. (Lift closed at the end of 2024)
She conducted the UK's first fundraising sector culture & wellbeing research; and is widely regarded as one of the leading specialists for not-for-profit and public sector work.Claire is now also an in-demand conference speaker and session facilitator and host, sharing her work and ethos.
Claire is now looking to "return home" to in-house fundraising & comms work in a senior leadership role.​​
