SUE Rubenstein

Leadership and Organisational development consultant & Non Executive Director

Sue has spent her career in public and non-profit sector consultancy – including at Partner level - with core expertise in board and governance effectiveness, strategic leadership and organisational development. She was a Director and Co-Founder of Foresight Partnership – a respected, niche consultancy offering leadership consultancy to Boards, senior teams and expert professional leaders. Bringing a strong organisational development approach, she has worked developmentally with the boards and senior leaders of well over 150 public service organisations.  In November 2014 Foresight was acquired by the UK arm of GE Healthcare’s global healthcare advisory business. Sue joined as a Partner on the UK board. She stepped down from this role in favour of a portfolio that now includes non-executive roles, carefully selected consultancy projects and a range of support to innovative social impact organisations and their leaders. 

She is an experienced Non-Executive Director with 20 years of experience in a range of board roles in the public and third sectors (NHS, social housing, education, charity). Most recently she served as Vice Chair of the Board of Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health Trust where she chaired the People and Culture Committee. She was (until a week ago!) the founding Chair of Bloody Good Period - an innovative charity that campaigns for menstrual equity with a particular focus on asylum seekers and refugees. She is currently the Chair of RAMP (Refugee, Asylum, Migration Policy project) A cross-party parliamentary project helping politicians to collaborate on migration & asylum issues to improve the quality of political debate and subsequent policy outcomes. 

Her early career was spent supporting change in public policy and institutional development in the housing sector in South Africa ahead of and following the first democratic elections. Shewas part of the non-governmental forum that crafted South Africa’s post-apartheid housing policy and was part of the leadership team on the delivery of the largest of Nelson Mandela’s special presidential urban renewal projects – a capital programme encompassing engineering infrastructure, safety and security, housing, health, education, social care and social infrastructure targeting women and young people.