Eleanor Stanley
In today’s noisy world, communication has to work harder than ever to compete for limited attention and build engagement and trust.
For more than 20 years, I’ve helped organisations across health and social change to communicate effectively, through coaching and consultancy. Through insight-led projects, I help organisations listen to the people they want to reach and then shape compelling, human stories that genuinely resonate, for trust and impact.
Coaching and mentoring, Communications, Marketing and PR
Community development, Disability, Health and social care, International development, Older people
Clients
A selection of organisations I’ve worked with: Alzheimer’s Society | British Medical Association | Bupa | FIGO | Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust | Health Foundation | ippr | King’s Fund | Mayor of London | Mid and South Essex ICS and NHS Foundation Trust | Moorfields Eye Hospital | National Eczema Society | NHS England | Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman | Picker Institute | Royal College of Nursing | Stroke Association | THIS Institute | Tommy’s | UCLPartners | Universities of London and Surrey
Qualifications
Winner of CharityComm’s Inspiring Communicators award for best freelancer 2025. Professional memberships include CharityComms, the Patient Information Forum, the RSA and the Association for Coaching. I hold a postgraduate certificate in executive and senior-level coaching/mentoring from the Institute of Leadership and Management (ILM7).
Experience
I support heads of communications, marketing and digital, boards and senior leaders, healthcare programme leads and managers, policy teams, clinical researchers, and transformation and change teams across healthcare providers, health charities, royal colleges, think tanks and research institutions.
Selected outcomes:
– Securing new funding by evidencing value for money to decision-makers
– Supporting strategy and culture change through insight-led messaging
– Increased clinic attendance through tailored messaging
– Empowering clinicians to deliver quality-improvement initiatives
– Building user trust and engagement by bringing lived insights into programme design
– Increasing research impact with lay summaries, guides and films.