Amanda Wilkinson

Biography

Amanda has built an impressive career within the voluntary sector over the last 25 years, and before joining Motivation in 2017 as CEO, held a variety of senior leadership positions, with particular expertise in income generation, building and driving financial growth and sustainability.

Amanda has significant experience in international development and disability fuelled by a drive to live in a fairer inclusive world. Throughout her career she has sought to make a difference by bringing inventive solutions to challenges in impactful programme delivery and developing new approaches to unlock funding. She has created award-winning cause-related marketing partnerships with top global consumer brands, worked with governments to build national disability and mental healthcare provision and built collaborations between public sector and voluntary sector actors to maximise the social return on projects focussed on the most vulnerable within a community.

Motivation is an international charity and social enterprise dedicated to improving the quality of life of disabled people living in some of the world’s poorest countries. Founded on the principles of improving inclusion and transforming lives through user-centred design, it has grown into a unique international development agency which embraces technology and design to make sustainable change.