Julie Haywood Community Ventures

About Julie

Experienced leadership, thoughtful listening and a practical commitment to making a difference.

Julie Haywood

Experience with purpose

A career built around helping people, organisations and communities navigate change.

Julie is a qualified social worker and an accomplished leader with more than 30 years’ experience across health and social care.

Her work spans the NHS, local government and Canadian health and care organisations, with a strong track record in planning, designing, delivering and evaluating complex programmes.

Julie combines strategic insight with a grounded, person-centred approach—listening carefully, connecting people and turning ambition into practical action.

What Julie brings

  • Strategy and service transformation
  • Programme and project leadership
  • Partnership and stakeholder engagement
  • Health, care and community insight
  • Clear, reliable delivery

How Julie works

Professional expertise is matched by a collaborative and human approach.

Listen first

Start by understanding people, context, priorities and the realities behind the brief.

Connect the system

Bring together different perspectives, build trust and create shared direction.

Make progress practical

Translate insight into clear decisions, achievable plans and sustained action.

Broader expertise

The right capability for each piece of work.

Where a brief needs additional specialist capability, Julie can work with carefully selected associates and strategic partners.

This flexible approach supports work including assessment and diagnostics, service and system reviews, data analysis, solution design, strategy development, implementation, performance management and evaluation.

A consistent standard

Whoever contributes to the work, the focus remains on high-quality expertise, clear communication and treating the client’s priorities with the importance they deserve.

Let’s create positive change together

Whether you’re an organisation, professional or individual, I’d love to hear from you.