About Fluent
Fluent helps you bring a new perspective
to develop how you work and lead in this new landscape
Hi, I'm Rebecca Phillips, Director of Fluent
I'm an organisational and systems development specialist
My passion is to help you and your organisation connect and collaborate inside and out to:
- Operate more creatively
- Adapt to change with greater ease
- Deliver more than you can do on your own
- Grow sustainably in line with your values
- Benefit your people, your partners and our planet
Using different ways of thinking you can
bring your diverse talents and experiences to create something new
Creative Thinking
Bringing your left and right brain hemispheres to creatively problem solve and innovate in the context of this changing landscape
Systems Thinking
Connecting around
the bigger picture and collaborating
to do so much more than
you can do on your own
Biomimicry Thinking
Learning from nature's strategies, processes and systems to
find ways to operate more
efficiently and sustainably
“Plants are attuned to one another's strengths
and weaknesses, elegantly giving and taking to attain exquisite balance. There is grace in complexity,
in actions cohering,in sum totals.”
Suzanne Simard, Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest
I have had the privilege to work with some amazing advisors. They have encouraged me to apply the different ways of thinking to deliver practical programmes across the sectors to tackle contemporary issues.
"Integrity is choosing courage over comfort;
choosing what is right over what is fun, fast, or easy;
and choosing to practice our values rather than simply professing them"
Brené Brown, Rising Strong: The Reckoning
Working with Fluent
- You'll be invited to share your leadership, organisational and/or partnership needs
- A series of modules or one off programme will be designed to meet your needs
- We can also co-design the programmes with your team to ensure ownership
- The resources will then be created
- Fluent will facilitate a programme using creative, engaging and impactful methods
- If you're new to Fluent you'll only pay the full fee if you're happy with what's delivered
- We always operate with openness, transparency and integrity.
All of Fluent's programmes enable you to operationalise
your individual and organisational values
and shape how you lead, design and operate with impact.
Values form the essence and identity of your organisation
Values shape what you do
and how you operate
inside and out
Values inform what
your staff, customers and
partners experience
Values determine how you are seen
by the rest of the world and
who engages with you
Fluent's programmes have three values running through them
PEOPLE
Empowering you to connect and prioritise the diversity, creativity and well-being of your people to shape how you work
PARTNERS
Empowering you to connect, listen and collaborate with your partners and clients to adapt at the best pace
PLANET
Empowering you to connect with nature and the communities around you to grow sustainably and thrive
Rebecca Phillips, Director
Rebecca Phillips
Director Fluent
She/ Her
Rebecca Phillips, Director of Fluent has been helping leaders, organisations and partnerships develop and collaborate for over 15 years.
Rebecca is a Fellow of Chartered Institute of Personnel Development (FCIPD) and a Certified Biomimicry Practitioner (CBP) to support organisations to sustainably deliver with on-going and complex change. Rebecca trained with Dr. Brené Brown in Texas, USA to become a Certified Dare to Lead™ Facilitator (CDTLF), an empirically based courage-building programme to develop resilient leaders. Rebecca also travelled to the USA to develop her applied systems thinking skills with programmes led by Peter Senge. Rebecca extended her systems thinking work into her coaching – training with the Society of Organisational Learning in Coaching and Systems thinking.
Rebecca has gained extensive experience having worked worked as a consultant with over 50 value-based organisations to support their strategic operations, transformation and development. She has also been a former CEO and Executive Director of a national NGO driving through operations and transformation programmes.
Rebecca applies her creativity, empathy and insight to practically support organisations to improve their impact.
Advisors
I am so grateful for the wisdom, advice and support that these talented people have given to ensure that the programmes are rooted in reality and are in tune with what is needed in our organisations today.
Claire Janisch
Founder, BiomimicrySA, South Africa.
Claire sadly died in February 2022. She was an amazing and inspiring mentor and teacher of biomimicry. She helped me learn more about the strategies, processes and functions found in nature that can practically improve how an organisation works together on the inside and outside.
Claire shared her passion all over the world as a keynote speaker, futurist, regenerative design & innovation consultant. She inspired the design of new products, processes & systems through her translation of nature’s innovation and sustainability principles.
With Claire’s guidance I have been able to qualify as a Certified Biomimicry Practitioner and develop the theory and processes behind my programmes.
Claire was and is a true inspiration!
Jenny Davies
Employee Relations, HR and Change Management Lead, Visa, UK
Jenny has vast experience working in international companies and has generously shared her wisdom to ensure Fluent’s programmes address current issues that staff and leaders are facing. The speed and complexity of the changes have taken their toll on staff with crazy workloads, challenging behaviours and an increase in health and wellbeing issues.
Jenny has been at the forefront of trouble shooting the fall out when staff, leaders and systems do not work effectively together.
With Jenny’s guidance Fluent’s programmes have been created to support organisations as whole systems – connecting diverse people, teams and partners to collaborate around shared values and goals.
Samia Robbins
Interim Head of Energy, Arup, Netherlands
Samia has been encouraging me in my pursuit to align the ambitions of an organisation to operate sustainably both externally and internally. To not just focus on its use of of energy and materials, but also on the way staff and leaders operate together and to build more resilience.
Samia is making a great difference as she drives forward large complex projects with partners across Europe in the innovative field of renewable and sustainable energy.
She has been sharing her positive energy and operational insights to ensure that my programmes are rooted in reality and will help leaders and organisations in any sector develop and collaborate more effectively.
And then there is Bu...
He is an advisor,
contributor,
cheerer upper
and often on hand to
attend each programme
as required.
A huge shout out to the amazing photographers who have kindly offered the use of their photo’s for free via Unsplash:
Penguins Rod Long Pink sky forest Filip Zrnzević Chimpanzee Rob Schreckhise Tree and hands Shane Rounce People Naassom Azevedo Partners National Cancer Institute Planet Cherise Eldridge
Spade is a WordPress photo. Photo of Rebecca inspired by Lara Haire. Photo of Bu on his adventure into the forest by Rebecca