“I’ve engaged Jon Huggett’s assistance with everything from restructuring to strategic planning to an internal investigation at key inflection points for three different nonprofits. He’s proved exceptional every time. He has a vast storehouse of experience, judgment, and energy to draw on that has proved indispensable.”

“One of the most challenging things about founding a new organisation is knowing who’s advice to listen to. In our first coaching session we’d developed an outline strategy that held for the first 6 years, and we are still working closely together together. Spring Impact would not be the half the organisation it is now without Jon. “

“From helping with the creation of the first pitch deck through to building the 3rd iteration of my leadership team, Jon has been an indespinsible coach and mentor for me and a key reason why Ada, the National College for Digital Skills exists and has met with such success in our first 5 years. Jon’s ability to challenge, support and mentor has been invaluable to me ad helped me navigate the many minefields of the start-up journey.”

“Jon’s advice and counsel have been a game changer for my organization, team, and me. He has been an invaluable sounding board as I’ve led a regional office reset, including a new strategic framework and staff and board transitions. His perspective on how to get the “big, tough stuff” done has changed the trajectory of our organization.”

Jon has been an invaluable adviser to myself, my Co-Founder and the team, as we took an ambitious idea and turned it into a reality. Jon’s constant support and encouragement as well as challenge to ‘think big’ whilst also making sure we focussed on the detail has been integral to our start up phase. Jon has provided strategic advice on our business plan, introduced us to a wide network of partners and has made himself available during every key phase of our project. In actual fact Jon is the mentor to One Million Mentors!

Jon provided valuable facilitation, expertise and advice during a difficult discussion within the Wikimedia community about the roles of different groups in our global movement. The results of the work provide a framework for roles and responsibilities of groups in the movement and were endorsed by the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees.

Jon has provided invaluable support to the Young Foundation, working with some of our ventures, advising on our international network and stepping in as Interim Director of Ventures. Jon consistently provides that rare combination of deep strategic insight and an unfailing sense of how people actually tick. He is an excellent coach and trusted adviser and shows great adeptness in dealing with people from all different backgrounds and moves fluidly between sectors whilst always seeming to hold on to a set of core values that drives his work.

Jon’s strategy expertise is broad and deep. His work has not only impacted the success of our ventures portfolio, but also the strength of our organisation as a whole. He is a trusted advisor and a brilliant strategist who has been generous in sharing his experience and know-how to support us in navigating complex challenges. Each time I meet with Jon or watch him in action I learn something new and valuable.

Jon is hard to describe briefly. He is an experienced consultant to social businesses and charities, and a social entrepreneur in his own right. He has supported me and collaborated with me and Nesta on a number of projects. He is one of our go-to guys when we need to support an innovator to come up with a business plan.

Jon has brought his private sector consulting skills and his deep appreciation of strategy to focus on complex development issues concerning providing housing and financial services for emerging populations.

Jon Huggett, while a Partner at Bridgespan, played a transformative role as a mentor, advisor and thought partner over the course of a Texas High School Project strategic planning engagement in 2005-2006 and a subsequent governance project. Jon’s combination of emotional intelligence, corporate experience and wisdom were critical factors in my successfully navigating a challenging period in the development of statewide public-private initiative. Thanks to the strategy developed with Jon and his team, THSP public-private initiative between the state of Texas and philanthropists including the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has grown to over $346M and comprises 172 new and redesigned schools serving 83,000 predominantly low income students

Jon facilitated a three-day retreat in May 2017 to help BRAC develop a new global team to take our ultra-poor graduation approach to scale across the world.  Jon did a terrific job of leading the workshop in a sensitive and thoughtful way that demonstrated great insight into how teams that are dispersed across the world can operate successfully.  This team is now up and running and starting to have a major impact on one of humanity’s greatest challenges:  the eradication of extreme poverty.

Jon Huggett spent an intensive month at Nurcha, understanding the housing environment and our business. The output is a useful document charting the forward in terms of achieving sustainability while remaining on mission. This will form the basis of our strategic planning and fundraising activities.

We have a much better understanding of the economics of our work, and our ability to conduct this kind of analysis has been greatly heightened.

The Bridgespan Group has played a vital strategic role in VolunteerMatch’s success. Jon Huggett’s leadership and advice while at Bridgespan were vital for securing a major grant that dramatically expanded the impact and sustainability of our work.

We believe there is no better non-profit consultant than Jon Huggett to advise us on our international expansion for global impact. Jon brings phenomenal experience, knowledge and wisdom combined with a heart-felt passion for the nonprofit sector.

Jon was exceptional at guiding and focusing our group in order to work through some very difficult issues and challenging group dynamics.

Khulisa originally met Jon in 2001 when he volunteered to render a skills development programme to incarcerated offenders in one of Johannesburg’s leading correctional facilities. Since our original contact, Khulisa has engaged with Jon on numerous fronts in both South Africa and the United Kingdom.

Working with Jon was great. He brought the essential outside perspective that we needed to make our project a success. He always had stimulating and challenging insights to offer, and helped us to get to a strong solution. He was also very easy to work with: as the leader of a dispersed international team, all of whom had “day jobs”, his responsiveness and flexibility around scheduling meetings and providing input was invaluable. I would certainly use him again, and would recommend him highly to others.

I worked with Jon on the development of the new institute for collaboration at London South Bank University I found his hard working, knowledgeable, and highly intelligent approach to the project to be a real boon he’s a great listener and understands how you get from vision to reality I’d be delighted to work with him again.

Working with Jon was a refreshing experience. He helped us focus on what matters with an approach which is practical and yet clearly backed up by a wealth of knowledge and wisdom accumulated over years of involvement in commercial and not-for-profit environments around the world. He has a gift for helping articulate complex issues in simple, easily ‘digestible’ way.

… important and appreciated contribution to our process … coaching was invaluable

Jon Huggett helped us with our organisational strategy at a time of exceptional uncertainty and change. We ended up with options that I don’t think any of us would have entertained beforehand and crucially we came to them ourselves thanks to his rare and brilliant mix of disruptive questioning, active listening and reflective practice. He is a skilled practitioner himself so he knows the pitfalls of certain avenues of discussion early and thus avoids lengthy time-wasting. His great way with people means that he can allow uncomfortable discussions to happen in a safe environment. The board and senior management at People Can feel, together, that the new strategy is right for us—it doesn’t shy away from the tough choices and is bold and ambitious in a thoroughly realistic setting. There is no doubt in my mind that we would never have got here without Jon.