Emma Price

Emma is an Innovation Consultant who brings a blend of service design and systems change experience to tackle entrenched systemic challenges across the Greater Manchester city-region.

Her work at Innovation Unit spans across GoodLives GM portfolio, supporting clients to tackle system barriers and enable community-led innovation to flourish. Emma coaches cross-sector teams in GM’s boroughs on both Live Well and the Early Family Help Trailblazer programme, bringing together social innovation and co-design approaches to support teams to reconnect to the people they serve and redesign systems of support around them. She is the learning lead for Live Well, the Greater Manchester movement for community-led health and wellbeing, drawing insights and designing spaces for leaders and practitioners to scale and embed learning across place-based systems.

Emma has led work to co-design a Live Well support offer for people with dementia, bringing together NHS GM, cross-sector partners and the voluntary sector to build a vision and offer that redesigns support closer to communities.

Emma is a coach on the Innovation Unit’s Design Academy, since completing the course in 2023 as part of her SDN Service Design accreditation.

Her previous work includes supporting the adoption and adaption of North Yorkshire’s No Wrong Door approach as part of the Department for Education’s Children’s Social Care Scale and Spread programme. 

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