I’ve spent my career helping people to understand each other, collaborate, and accept new ideas.
Hi, I’m Liberty York.
It's taken me places: from Whitehall policy corridors to factory floors, from piloting new business in China to scaling a startup from 3 people to 30, from FTSE 100 boardrooms and blue-chip tech teams to political party conferences and leading Europe's change communications practice at McKinsey & Company. I've advised leaders on the highest-stakes narratives they'll ever deliver, and worked shoulder-to-shoulder with teams rewiring how their companies operate — securing national headlines, a BAFTA and an Apple App of the Year award along the way.
Here's what I've learned: projects stall and transformations fall short not for lack of planning, but for lack of people planning — misunderstanding, mistrust, misalignment, and missing skills.
That's the layer I work on.
My approach
I combine communications, change management and capability building expertise to get things done in transforming organisations and high-stakes projects with complex stakeholder landscapes.
I look at what you're trying to achieve, then understand it from the people side: who's involved, what they need to hear, whether they trust the process, whether they have the skills to do what's being asked of them. Those are the gaps that stall progress and make results unsustainable.
I close those gaps by advising, coaching, or getting hands-on to deliver the outputs and milestones you need — working alongside you and your teams to make change happen and bring stakeholders with you.
It's about more than project results. Clear communication and well-managed change give people dignity, meaning and agency in their work. I work to build motivated, more capable teams who trust each other and work at a high pace they can sustain — and can keep delivering after I've gone.
“Simply amazing to work with”
Interested in working together?
Let’s talk.