Libby McVeigh
Lead Consultant – Leadership and Organisational Development
Libby strengthens the impact, effectiveness and resilience of charities through supporting leadership development and designing and implementing organisational development initiatives.
Libby joined NCVO in January 2023. She has over a decade of senior leadership experience across the voluntary, public and private sectors and a range of functions. In each of these roles, Libby led strategic reviews and values-driven change programmes, built and developed large staff teams, and improved organisational efficiency and effectiveness.
“Libby was an excellent facilitator, engaging, enthusiastic and knowledgeable.”
Libby is passionate about supporting organisations and their leaders to be as impactful, effective and resilient as possible. Libby is passionate about supporting emerging leaders to develop the knowledge, mindset and connections they need to succeed. She delivers NCVO’s leadership development programme – Leaders on Purpose. Her engaging and innovative approaches draw on the latest research and her own experience as a leader within the charity sector.
Libby’s consultancy work involves both supporting individual leaders to seize opportunities and overcome challenges, and working collaboratively with leadership and staff teams to identify areas which are holding them back and solutions which will get them back on track. Before joining NCVO Libby worked at a range of organisations focussed on human rights, equality and justice. These included User Voice, Fair Trials, The Law Society and the Equality and Human Rights Commission. Having worked ‘client-side’ throughout her career, Libby has first-hand experience of how external consultants can best support change.
Libby holds a Bachelors degree in Social and Political Science and a Masters in Human Rights Law, and is currently doing a Masters in Psychotherapy and Counselling. For a full CV, please visit Libby’s LinkedIn profile.
Areas of expertise
- Leadership development
- Organisational strength assessments
- Organisational development
- Change management
- Capacity building and training
- Online and face to face facilitation
- Strategy development
- Organisational governance
- Monitoring and evaluation
“Libby was lovely. Very engaged and she made you feel like she was interested in what you had to say. She is a very good listener and translator of my garbled thoughts!”
Libby’s clients have included
- Beat Routes: Supporting the CEO to define and articulate strategic vision for this youth arts charity.
- Institute for Statelessness and Inclusion: Supporting the Co-Directors and staff of this international NGO to identify areas for organisational development in advance of a strategy development process.
- ShareAction: Working collaboratively with the leaders and staff to develop a new leadership and decision-making framework.
- The Advocacy People: Conducting a review of the effectiveness of the organisational structure and co-creating recommendations for the future.
- Young Roots: Supporting the CEO in the design of a strategy planning process and facilitating strategy discussions with the staff team.
“Libby brought her own extensive knowledge and experience in this area to the training - bringing it to life and not a flat text book style training.”
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