Chris O'Leary

While with Cassiopeia, Chris has delivered projects for a wide range of clients including national regulators, local authorities and voluntary sector organisations. Recent completed projects include: a tool that enables homelessness day centres to demonstrate the benefit to the exchequer of their work; supporting a local authority bid for to fund a major service development and undertaking the economic appraisal; devising and implementing a change management programme for a non-departmental public body and developing a predictive model for need for supported housing in London.

Prior to founding his new company, Chris was a Portfolio Manager for Matrix Research and Consultancy, where he led work around sustainable communities and social inclusion. This included significant work on the Government’s Supporting People programme, where he directed a number of large research projects for the Department for Communities and Local Government (formerly the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister), and a number of consultancy projects for a range of local authorities. He is a national expert on Supporting People, is widely published (click here for a list of publications, and has made key note speeches at several conferences.

Chris’ background is in local government. He has extensive experience of housing strategy, through work with an authority with a large housing stock. He led projects around tenant and resident involvement and Large Scale Voluntary Transfers, and was an adviser to a New Deal board. He is a former non-Executive board member of a regeneration delivery agency.