Vanessa Loughlin is a trusted specialist in organization effectiveness with a clear view: most organizations aren’t held back by strategy, but by the way they’re designed to work. Founder of Organisation Matters Ltd, she partners with CEOs and executive teams to understand issues, surface hidden costs and make organization decisions that create competitive advantage. With 35 years experience across global businesses including Motorola, Vodafone, Barclays and Aviva, she specialises in diagnosing and resolving complex issues to unlock organization, team and individual performance. A systems thinker and straight talker she co-authored The Effectiveness Edge: How Organization Effectiveness Unlocks Performance with Andrea Robottom – a partnership forged through a unique job share. Vanessa holds an MSc in Organisation Consulting, is trained in Transactional Analysis and is a Fellow of the CIPD. Outside work, she finds balance in family life, long walks with her dog and painting.