Steve Coles

Steve has worked in and with organisations large and small, in the private sector and third sector, both in the UK and abroad.  His experience ranges from working in a start-up leadership development consultancy to managing a $400million procurement budget for a group of civil engineering companies in the Middle East. He is the founding Director of Intentionality CIC and is also Social Enterprise Development Manager for The Salvation Army in the UK and Republic of Ireland. He has advised numerous clients on social impact measurement and reporting, and at the Salvation Army he has developed the organisation’s definition and strategy for social enterprise with a particular focus on building social enterprise into the provision of employment and homelessness services.

Steve is a trustee and the vice chair of the board of Eikon, a Surrey-based youth work charity, as well being a member of the Social Enterprise Coalition Council, a member of the Social Return on Investment Network and a Fellow of the RSA. He has an MBA from Imperial College Business School, in which his research focussed on social enterprise and well-being, and a BSc in Human Cybernetics from the University of Reading.