Anna Randle is an expert in systems change and the design of collaborative public services. As Chief Executive of Collaborate CIC, Anna leads Collaborate CIC’s work with places across the country to build collaborative approaches to social change.

This includes working with local partnerships to develop new place-based strategies and collaborative approaches to public services, convening actors from different sectors to build new coalitions for change, and supporting accompanying changes in practice and culture in organisations, services and places. In the past year Anna has led long-term strategic work in Cambridgeshire, Barking and Dagenham and Gateshead.

Anna is also a lead facilitator on the SOLACE/Collaborate Ignite programme, a system leadership offer for local authority Chief Executives, and she oversees Collaborate’s work with a wide range of partners, including civil society and social funders as well as public services.

Anna has a background in policy and practice in central and local government. Prior to joining Collaborate, Anna spent 4 years as Director of Policy for the London Borough of Lambeth, where she helped lead strategy and innovation focused on shifting Lambeth’s operating model towards new models of collaborative public services. Anna has also worked in think tanks and as a Special Advisor in two central government departments.

Anna is a regular writer on the future of local public services, including the Collaborative Society Manifesto in 2020, ‘Building Collaborative Places: Infrastructure for System Change’ for Collaborate in 2017 and Collaborate’s recent Covid19 blog series.

Anna serves on Collaborate’s board.