Beth Stout, Renaisi-TSIP

Beth Stout, Renaisi-TSIP
Associate Director of Place & Systemic Change

As Associate Director of Place and Systemic Change, Beth helps people and partnerships to build understanding and address the interconnected issues and injustices that persist in society.

With a background in the charity sector, Beth has worked with individuals, organisations, and collaborations to explore long-term systemic change across issue areas including health, children and young people, and community development.

Beth has a deep understanding of issues relating to funding, cross-sector collaboration, and programme design and delivery. Her main area of interest is how the ways we go about making change affect the outcome itself.

In practice, this means understanding the power dynamics at the centre of any effort to make change on a social issue and ensuring those power dynamics are not reinforced. It also means understanding everyone that is connected to a particular issue, and the roles they play in it, to ensure change isn’t made in isolation. Beth believes this is possible by making time to build relationships, thinking intentionally about values and beliefs, and identifying power dynamics and structures.

Before joining Renaisi, Beth led the development of Save the Children’s Early Learning Communities, a place-based systems change initiative in five communities across the UK. This gave her significant experience in setting up governance, funding, learning, and co-production approaches for place-based projects. Prior to that, Beth worked on systems change across the NHS.

Beth is an accomplished facilitator, with a background in coaching and supporting individuals leading local change, as well as facilitating partnerships to explore their own local systems and develop shared strategies.

She holds a Bachelor of Business Administration in Global Business Studies (with First Honours) from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, a Master in International Relations from the London School of Economics and a Certificate in Impact Finance Innovations Programme from Said Business School, University of Oxford. Born and raised in Hong Kong, she has also lived in Pakistan, Singapore, the United States, Denmark, Germany. She is now based in London, the United Kingdom.