Director, Programme, Europe
Keisha Swaby is a Director at Centre for Public Impact.
She joined CPI in 2022.
Keisha leads the Communities, Health & Culture of Care portfolio, working across government, public services and civil society to strengthen how complex systems learn, collaborate and make decisions through participatory and relational practice.
She led the transformative evaluation of the Mayor of London’s New Deal for Young People, centring young people as peer researchers. With The Promise Scotland, she led a learning partnership to embed a Human Learning Systems approach, supporting their role in Scotland’s national reform for care-experienced children and young people. She also co-designed an action research experiment with the Greater Manchester Combined Authority and regulatory and inspection partners to explore more collaborative approaches to improving outcomes for people experiencing multiple disadvantages. She worked with the University of Nottingham Rights Lab on survivor-centred co-design workshops to reimagine support systems for survivors of modern slavery and exploitation.
Prior to joining CPI, she led strategic transformation programmes including an award-winning mental health service co-designed with and for Black communities, and a national initiative to empower young people and the public to shape a new direction for education and learning in England.
She holds a Master of Design in Social Innovation, is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and is a member of both the Design Research Society and the Systemic Design Association.
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