Lauren Coulman

Taking a systemic lens – identifying not just the roles of the public, private and social sectors but also the structural, cultural, and personal influences on social challenges – Noisy Cricket can help identify unique levers for change. Examples include innovating obesity pathways to ensure a more empathic approach to service delivery. Progressing homeless employment through new narratives around the value impacted people bring to the workplace. Building community trust in data sharing through first building trust in cross-sector collaboration.   

Specialising in facilitating teams and coaching individuals, my transformative approach fosters mutual trust, shared power and meaningful participation between individuals working within the system and the communities our organisations exist to serve. As well as helping multi-agency partnerships centre communities’ needs and best interests, I can help in navigating shared decision-making, piloting new approaches and creating space for shared reflection and learning. Additional support also includes:  

• Purpose Design  

• Strategy Co-Creation  

• Theory of Change Mapping  

• Future Model Scoping  

• Partnership Building  

• Community Engagement     

Over the past decade, Noisy Cricket has supported diverse partnerships in Greater Manchester, Staffordshire and disparate collectives across the UK. Yet, it’s through deep listening, aligning motivations and enabling courageous conversations that such activities can be used to achieve big ambitions – like tackling social and health inequalities – and adapting these in unique ways to the places we work and live.