“I could have gone on and on - Madeleine’s work has been incredible. She has consistently gone well above and beyond in every way and I just don’t think anyone else would have managed what she has. Madeleine very quickly got to grips with the highly complex and multifaceted cross-organisational research and strategy project we presented to her (developing a strategy and development plan for twenty different organisations doing joint advocacy) making helpful suggestions for improving the methodology. She worked carefully and thoughtfully to manage input from multiple stakeholders via interviews, surveys, and facilitated discussions, communicating her progress throughout and always delivering high-quality, well-articulated and insightful outputs on time. The work Madeleine has done for us is set to be truly transformative – she is a pleasure to work with, and I can’t recommend her highly enough.”

- Rohan Talbot, Director of Advocacy and Campaigns, Medical Aid for Palestinians

“Madeleine was a fantastic consultant, quickly getting to grips with the brief and delivering a high quality piece of work, enabling us to think strategically about the next phase of the campaign

— Dominic Arnall, Chief Executive, Just Like Us

“Madeleine is an absolute joy to work with in every way. I was so impressed with how she picked up the complexities and nuances of Standing Together’s work so quickly. She is super bright, quick & extremely engaging. All the staff that had contact with her were really impressed with her work ethic & professionalism. I seriously can not recommend Madeleine highly enough and can not wait to work with her again on projects going forward.”

- Gudrun Burnet, Chief Executive, Standing Together Against Domestic Abuse

“Madeleine served as a human rights monitor with our programme and has now undertaken regular advocacy work for the programme for many years. She is one of the programme’s our most capable human rights monitors and advocates and a huge asset to our work. She always acts with integrity, intelligence, sensitivity and high professionalism and has excellent interpersonal skills. She is a joy to work with. I would fully recommend Madeleine and consider any organisation that works with her to be very fortunate.”

— Head of EAPPI Programme, Quaker Peace and Social Witness

“Madeleine and I worked on many complex large scale programmes together- she worked with me to troubleshoot issues, analyse the potential impact of different solutions, and supported me to make decisions in the best interest of the programme. I was always impressed at how much work Madeleine was able to get through in a single day, especially when quality was never compromised. Her commitment to what we were trying to achieve was always obvious to me and everyone in the team. I’d highly recommend working with Madeleine.”

— Faye McGuinness, Director of Programmes, Education Support

“It has been a pleasure to work with Madeleine. From day one she was able to interpret our brief well, understand the topic, our angle and what we hoped to achieve. This involved a mixed approach of policy analysis, desk research and interviews with people from across the world to support a major campaign. The project was delivered to time and with great results. Madeleine was happy to be flexible and adjust to our changing needs and timescales too.”

— David Bridson, Head of Campaigns and Research, YMCA

“Madeleine took our campaign analysis brief, interpreted it precisely and presented back exactly what was needed, plus some additional analysis that was incredibly insightful.  She was extremely efficient in the use of her time, made herself available for check-in meetings and the work came back pretty much ready to present to our senior management group.”

— Jo Loughran, Director, Time to Change

“This first year has proved transformative, enabling the Network to progress further and faster than we could ever dream. All that is down to the sheer excellence and dedication of Madeleine McGivern, working hand in glove with our Committee and our wider membership to strengthen our communication, our website, our offer - our everything!”

- Sir Vincent Fean, Patron, Britain Palestine Friendship and Twinning Network

“I had the pleasure of working with Madeleine when I was the Head of Community Programmes at Mind. Madeleine supported us to develop a theory of change to clearly articulate our teams work and intended impact. Madeleine did a fantastic job! With excellent planning, strategic thinking and communication skills, Madeleine led the process from start to finish - making it look easy! Madeleine led two co-creation workshops to ensure that all the team (approx 30 staff) were included in the development process and gave plenty of opportunities for refining it based on feedback. The end result was exactly what we needed and completed quickly and efficiently. I’d highly recommend Madeleine to anyone - she’s great at what she does!”

- Laura Johnson, Director of Delivery, Leap Confronting Change (formerly Mind)

“Madeleine combines exceptional analytical skills with the ability to work, on her own or with a team to deliver results. She is quickly able to grasp the complexities of a situation and then to work alongside a team to identify, plan and deliver an effective response. She worked with the staff team and trustees to devlop our charity’s mission and values statement and did so in a contructive and insightful way, proposing clear and powerful messages that worked for us an organisation. Madeleine is also able to articulate difficult messages in a highly supportive way that enables people to engage.”

— Chris Rose, Director, Amos Trust