Jenni Inglis

Jenni Inglis is a social entrepreneur, facilitator, evaluator and serial collaborator. She runs social value consultancy VIE (for Life) Ltd, which works alongside public and third sector clients to develop capacity to reflect and to redesign. VIE works with a range of participatory practices and processes from the fields of human-centred design and action research.

VIE has worked with funders, charities, social enterprises, local and central government, NHS trusts and universities across the UK. We specialise in involving people with less power and those with severe and multiple disadvantage. We have involved people with mental health issues, older people isolated in their homes, adults with complex needs, people who are homeless and people who misuse drugs and alcohol.

VIE can help you collaborate for change by; bringing together stakeholders including citizens, creating shared vision, developing creative responses; deliberating options; understanding patterns of change and setting up measurement systems. We are specialists in Social Return on Investment (SROI), which means we can translate an understanding of the effects of a project or service on the people affected into appropriate measurement systems.

VIE works with associates specialising in Organisational Development and service design. Jenni is also an associate of several other organisations including Hidden Insights (R) Ltd, specialists in Positive Deviance.

Jenni is co-founder and strategist at Wellderly www.wellderly.org.uk, bringing together older people as collaborative change makers. She is a board member of Social Value UK and served on the board of The Melting Pot from 2009-2014.

Jenni wrote "Commissioning for Maximum Value", published by the LGA in 2012

Before setting up VIE Jenni worked in an agency promoting social enterprise and in a FTSE 100 company doing internal capital investment programme appraisal.