Company Information

Dawn Reeves, Jill Hall and Max Krafchik, the company's Directors, set up Inspira Consulting in March 2002. Our motivation is a belief - backed up by our clients - that we can provide support to the public sector in a different way to both the big consultancies and individual consultants by providing:

  • a genuine small but strong team approach with great complementary skills
  • a sound process for all our jobs that fits with the way your organisation works
  • a personalised service with individually designed solutions that takes the pressure off you and your organisation
  • wide ranging senior management experience relevant to your organisation.

We approach all our work with energy, enthusiasm and commitment to a quality job.

Inspira's team are:

Dawn Reeves Dawn Reeves one of Inspira’s Directors is a Member of the International Association of Facilitators and a Neighbourhood Renewal Adviser (NRA) to ODPM. Dawn has worked extensively with LSPs on Performance Management projects and has for the last year been heavily involved in Local Area Agreements (LAA) throughout the East and West Midlands. Dawn’s roles prior to forming Inspira included Head of Policy and Head of Economic Development in Midlands local authorities.
Amanda Cunningham Amanda Cunningham is a Senior Consultant with Inspira and brings over eight years experience in the field of regeneration. She has experience with a variety of Single Regeneration Budget (SRB) schemes, Rural Development Programme and Rural Challenge schemes throughout the West Midlands. In her previous role Amanda had day to day responsibility within the Regional Development Agency (RDA) for the Arc of Opportunity Regeneration Zone. This work included partnership and system development, project development and appraisal and the analysis of delivery and implementation plans.
Jill Hall Jill Hall is an Inspira Director with a strong track record in the private sector and leads on projects for strategic planning and enterprise support. Jill has worked with three of the six West Midlands Regeneration Zones, supporting the Chamber of Commerce in planning and developing services and projects to support and grow local business. With over 20 years experience in senior management roles, including 4years as Chief Executive, in Chambers of Commerce and Business Links, Jill is well equipped to offer support and advice on strategic planning, structural reorganisation, partnership development, business planning and service development topic’s.
Max Krafchik Max Krafchik is one of Inspira’s Directors and leads the company’s work on education, children and young people and evaluation projects. Max is a member of the UK Evaluation Society and has substantial and detailed technical knowledge of data and research methods. In a previous role as Assistant Director of Education at London Borough of Newham, Max worked extensively on post-16 planning, life long learning and played a significant role in the establishment of Newham’s first Sure Start programme.
Rebecca Croxson Rebbeca Croxson comes to Inspira as a Senior Consultant with a strong and varied experience within central government. Rebecca has worked on a wide range of projects within the Neighbourhood Renewal field and has been involved with a number of Local Strategic Partnerships (LSP’s). Previous to this work Rebecca was the Deputy Team Leader in the Government Office for the East Midlands, working with a wide range of key public, private and voluntary and community sector organisations to develop and influence government funded enterprise and education activity.

Team Photograph

We work with quality assured and trusted associates:
Sarah Dale
Afshan Ahmed