Naomi Salisbury

I’ve been working and volunteering in the charity sector for over 20 years, most recently as CEO of Self Injury Support, via a wide range of roles from facilitating peer support groups and community advocacy spaces to large scale project management, including setting up and running helplines, peer support services, conferences and training programmes. As a CEO I specialised in organisational strategy and infrastructure development, partnership working across the voluntary sector, NHS, local authorities and universities, development of new services and diversifying fundraising. Alongside these core functions, I have led organisations through a range of financial and strategic challenges and ensured a strategic focus on supporting and enhancing staff wellbeing and improving diversity, inclusion and representation both within the staff team and in service reach, setting up partnerships to offer better representation and support to a wider range of people. Peer support and the solidarity of shared experience have been fundamental to shaping who I am both professionally and personally and have been core to all of my roles. I love supporting the development of spaces where people can receive the support they need on an equitable basis, as well as discover the huge value they can bring to others.