ECP brings Dr Rosalind Napleton-King’s extensive leadership experience to benefit conservation, animal welfare – and wider fields. Rosalind is an innovative, empowering, well-regarded leader fuelled by cross-sector senior experience and a diverse globally-focussed career approaching its fourth decade. Her award-winning, transferable leadership and collaborative expertise enables her to help deliver context-relevant strategies to complex issues in varied arenas.
Noted for mature competency and motivational leadership of high-profile projects, Rosalind has multiple experiences of challenging and crisis situations and navigating teams through wide-ranging complexities. High standards of professionalism blend with an empowering, holistic ethos to earn respect across working arenas – valuing all she encounters, recognising their unique role in a collective mission. Her cross-sector leadership embraces working with people and organisations from many countries of the world and highly-varied backgrounds including local, regional, national and international governmental bodies, international and national NGOs (covering conservation, animal welfare and human issues), multilaterals, businesses, industry, academia and community-led groups and organisations – people from all walks of life. She has built, and ongoingly builds, many bridges and strategic relationships which endure and grow – and which continue to deliver benefits to animals and people alike, in many arenas.
With powerful abilities to unite parties, Rosalind is a driving force in varied coalitions; galvanising wide-ranging support and resources, nurturing common ground, ethos and vision between parties, fuelling trusting, reciprocal, enduring partnerships and transboundary alliances embracing people and organisations from many backgrounds. Working holistically to benefit animals and people, she is skilled at empowering strong, diverse collaboration, integrating varied bodies and effort in impactful, cross-sector mutually-beneficial partnerships and collaborative networks.
Adept across a suite of leadership styles, with significant multi-site, multi-culture leadership experience, Rosalind harnesses positive, mutually-empowering practices to enrich individuals, boost organisational outcomes and bring wider holistic benefits. Compelling influencing and advocacy skills, harnessed alongside diplomacy, compassion and empathy, enable her to galvanise investment and guide diverse parties towards mutually-beneficial goals – translating visions into actions, collective investment in a mission – and impactful results.
Rosalind brings leadership that hits the ground running – she is recognised for expeditious turnaround of challenging, embryonic briefs into workable plans. Respectful interactions and focussed efforts to appreciate others’ contextual situations enable a quick grasp of needs and responsive delivery of context-relevant solutions. Her track record, skillset and sincerity of nature engender trust and confidence – and reciprocity that enhances collective action and outcomes. Rosalind’s skills have propelled varied initiatives into positions where projects addressing acute needs could be launched, such as pioneering, awareness-raising, capacity-building programs in numerous countries – benefitting animals and people alike.
An experienced change manager, Rosalind is a visionary thinker, with a creative, bold approach identifying real-world needs, generating innovative, inclusive, holistic solutions. She crafts environments where opportunities are enhanced and actioned, and innovation encouraged – to the benefit of individuals and organisations. Via participatory methods, envisioning, developing and defining new strategic objectives and protocol, she has empowered and motivated large cross-culture teams through sea changes to holistically re-shape working practice towards improved outputs – engendering deep commitment to organisational goals and encouraging people to embrace new opportunities.
Furthering ECP’s collaborative ethos, Rosalind believes that leadership is fundamentally a team situation – valuing pivotal interrelationships within and outside of an organisation or initiative. She harnesses incisive understanding of critical interdependencies across functions and divisions, of wide-ranging of impacts of leadership decisions, and of strategic, marketing, financial and operational pathways to achieve goals and sustain missions.
Rosalind’s decision-making is confident and collaborative: Wide-ranging experience and strong global working links bring a transdisciplinary evidence-base and opportunity to draw on varied expertise – to recognise and evaluate risks and opportunities and thus make informed decisions, and to work inclusively, involving all stakeholders, to drive initiatives forward with empowered focus to achieve key strategic objectives.
Critical to good leadership is deep knowledge of the myriad factors – social, financial, logistic, political – that influence working outcomes and robust understanding of systems and practice that aid strategic direction, effectiveness and accountability. Rosalind’s senior experience in NGO, governmental and wider sectors facilitates a broad, holistic perspective. Organisational leadership for NGOs is enhanced by experiential knowledge of charity governance, legislation and management responsibilities. Charities are supported to develop and implement strategic pathways towards goals, securing long-term direction and ensuring responsible operation. Working alongside executives, directors and trustees, Rosalind’s strategic guidance and management support helps successful global conservation charities to nurture environments that support good governance and embrace diverse inputs. Her experiences in the governmental and policy arena enable her to harness knowledge of wide-ranging factors impacting the uptake of policy decisions and to deliver strategies to boost the achieving of policy goals.
Conservation and animal welfare leadership is enhanced by deep insight of issues impacting wildlife and domestic animals, especially related social, economic and political complexities, gained from encompassing a broad array of conservation and animal welfare effort over the years, across policy and practice. Rosalind’s expertise is requested by an array of bodies from all sectors globally (NGOs, GOs, businesses, zoos, communities), providing guidance to empower inclusive, innovative solutions to aid endangered species and animal welfare – initiatives with wide-ranging impacts to animals and humans.
Intrinsic to key policies and protocols, Rosalind’s inputs are helping animals and people around the world: Her guidance transfers to aid problems with transboundary complexities, underpin sustainability of collaborative initiatives and galvanise behaviour change and impactful outcomes in many arenas.
Rosalind has a strong track record for inspiring new thinking, building critical capabilities and catalysing positive outcomes for conservation, animal welfare and beyond – working holistically to aid wildlife, domestic animals, ecosystems and people. For decades, her leadership has been evinced by tireless efforts, giving vigorously of her time and expertise to spread benefits widely to ensure no situation she can help goes without. Rosalind describes it as her privilege and pleasure to mobilise the greatest influence she can for animal-kind, that her work aids conservation of threatened species, animal welfare and beyond – and that it benefits both animals and the people whose daily lives are entwined with them.
Adept at leadership at micro, meso and macro levels, from small, rural programs for endangered species, to governmental policy-related initiatives, through to multi-party, cross-sector, transcontinental initiatives under challenging socio-political circumstances, ECP offers varied leadership services, ranging from heading collaborative projects and specific initiatives to organisational-level leadership, including interim leadership.
ECP can lead and empower people and organisations to deliver against positive visions for animals and people and the wider world. With an array of uniquely valuable attributes to drive forward and underpin sustainability of visionary, impactful, inclusive, collaborative initiatives it is our privilege to do so.
If you would like ECP’s leadership to help your organisation or initiative – in conservation, animal welfare or another field – or to learn more about this aspect of our work, please contact us.
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