Phoebe W.

Background

About Phoebe W.

Phoebe Waters is Co-Founder and Partner of Optimising Potential ('OP'), a strategic business consultancy - specialising in female and high impact leadership. OP works in-depth with individuals and teams as impactful improvement partners, particularly through periods of transformational change. Phoebe specialises in consulting on leadership, particularly female leadership, and gender equity and equality. Phoebe is the sole Leadership Consultant for UN Women UK. She has presented to the UN's Commission on the Status of Women for the last three years, which is the largest intergovernmental global gathering when it comes to gender equality. Phoebe also has a particular focus on supporting the newly launched GenEqual community for 18-30 year olds across the UK. Phoebe is a two-time winner of Management Today's 35 Women Under 35 Awards, a UK-wide initiative recognising the best of female business talent. She is now Chair of Judges for these 35//35 Awards, in addition to being a Judge for the Women and Diversity in Law Awards and a Judge for the UK's StartUp Awards. Phoebe is a former corporate investigator specialising in asset recovery and enforcement, and previous Chair of the Female Fraud Forum. She is a faculty member at the University of Cambridge's Institute of Sustainability Leadership, tutoring on two internationally renowned courses. She is a Visiting Lecturer on the foundations of gender equality at other UK universities. Phoebe is also the Co-Founder of the Female City Supper Club, Project UpLift and the ReLaunch Club, and is a member of the Aspen Rising Leaders Fellowship.