Zahra Hedges

Transformation and strategy executive with 20+ years’ experience across social enterprise, charity, public sector and private environments.

What I bring: Finding the real problem, I’m naturally drawn to understanding why problems keep recurring, rather than jumping straight to solutions. That helps clients focus on the changes that will have the greatest long-term impact. Bridging thinking and doing, I enjoy taking big, ambitious ideas and working with people to make them practical, achievable and meaningful in the context they’re working in. Helping people see things differently, I ask thoughtful questions, bring different perspectives together and create the conditions for new thinking and better decisions.

Experience includes: SAMH, Planet Youth (Global), Scottish Water 

Outside of work I enjoy: I’m doing an MBA so hobby time is limited, but I have a bit of a jigsaw addiction and have a ten year old daughter so play a lot of card/board games!