Christine is a senior programme manager in the People Powered Results Team (PPR), appointed to Lead the PPR work in Scotland.

The PPR approach draws upon and combines aspects of evidence-based leadership, design and change management theories including:

Design: Human-centred design and user-led innovation
Leadership development practice: Adaptive and Network leadership
Quality Improvement: Plan-Do-Study-Act, and Evidence-based practice
Group dynamics and team effectiveness: Deploying a range of facilitation, coaching and behaviour change techniques.

The approach focuses on creating the conditions to enable change and innovation to happen at pace across complex systems. This includes leadership support and frontline action and collaboration, supported by coaching and facilitation to encourage new ways of working and help teams to capture their learning.

In her previous roles Christine worked as a national improvement advisor In Healthcare Improvement Scotland’s improvement hub (ihub) as part of the Transformation Redesign Unit. As part of this role Christine led and developed large scale redesign and continuous improvement work with Health and
Social Care organisations across Scotland. Christine has a clinical leadership, academic and improvement science background having trained as
an occupational therapist and a Scottish Quality and Safety Fellow. Christine’s work has always been driven by a commitment and passion to place service users, carers and staff voices at the centre of the development of new models of care. Her evidenced informed redesign work for children with coordination difficulties, with Queen Margaret University has been published internationally.
Christine is a Trustee on the Board of Directors of two organisations. Carr Gomm a
leading Scottish social care and community development charity and Director of Stepping Stones charity which supports migrant Myanmar children and families, primarily with cerebral palsy, where she has worked as a volunteer therapist.