Helen Coleman
Helen is a Principal Consultant working within Altair’s Transformation and Change team. Helen has 20 years’ experience working in the Housing and Care sectors. She is a creative thinker with a strong social focus, and a deep understanding of the Housing sector.
Expertise
- Corporate and operational strategy development
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Portfolio management
- Customer focussed service redesign
- Data quality and governance
- Research and customer insight
- Organisational performance and improvement
About Helen
Helen is a senior strategic change and transformation professional who enjoys working with organisations to design solutions that solve their challenges. During her 20 years of experience with the Housing and Care sectors, Helen has built experience in helping organisations to deliver holistic and impactful change across all areas of operations, and in bringing positive change for customers. Her background includes supporting organisations throughout merger and acquisition activity, to design and deliver their strategic ambitions.
Background
- Strategic Consultant
- Director of Strategy and Planning
- Director of Transformation
- Vanguard systems thinking
Fun Facts
When not working, Helen can be usually be found travelling the inland waters of the UK, either by boat or swimming, or trying to enjoy long dog walks with her energetic (and chaotic) whippet Frankie!
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