Fiona Dawe CBE - Consultant, Vital Space
Fiona is an experienced coach, advisor and organisational leader with a distinguished career in the voluntary sector. She has her own consultancy, Vital Space, and is a Time To Think Consultant. As an accredited Thinking EnvironmentTM coach, teacher and facilitator, she works across sectors with a wide variety of organisations.
Fiona has held several trusteeships over the years. She had a 30-year career in the voluntary sector, starting as a Community Service Volunteer, working with young offenders. Fiona then worked at CSV, OUTSET (employment and training in IT for people with disabilities) and Volunteering England.
For 11 years until April 2011 Fiona was Chief Executive of YouthNet, (now The Mix and Do-it.org) the UK’s first not-for-profit dot.com. In 2008 they won The Charity Times 'Best Charity to Work For' award, one of her proudest moments. She firmly believes that the Thinking Environment was a key success factor.
Fiona was awarded the CBE for services to volunteering in the New Year Honours List 2012 and the OBE for services to the voluntary sector in 2003. She was winner of the Charity Times 'Outstanding Individual Achievement Award 2010'.
She is married to a retired architect, who is now an artist, painter and print maker and has a son and daughter. Fiona has facilitated on the Leaders in Transition (2013), the Emerging Leaders (2015) and Developing Leaders programme (2017). She has also spoken on many programmes.
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