MATRIARCH is an intersectional gender management consultancy based in London and operating globally
Our expertise is rooted in a deep systemic understanding of power, inequality, and institutional behaviour, which enables us to translate this into pragmatic and implementable support. This ranges from internal organisational audits to programme-level assessment design and strategic planning
What MATRIARCH means to us
Unity — not exclusion.
The name MATRIARCH represents taking a stand against conventional ways of thinking and taking a stance against conventional systems of power.
Gender equality is not about inverting patriarchal systems or placing one group in power over another. Instead, it is about pushing for different visions for leadership and institutional change, ones that are grounded in care, justice, and accountability.
This reflects our approach to addressing the root causes of inequality: structured and pragmatic, but not detached from the values that drive our team.
We help organisational leadership solve complex problems with an justice oriented and intersectional lens
Matriarch specialises in supporting organisations to improve performance, manage risks, achieve and report impact, and meet organisational goals. We deliver consulting services anchored in the knowledge and experience of working with the leading global civil society and international organisations focused on social justice issues.
Matriarch is a division of the UK company, Shared Planet.
What exactly we
mean by intersectional
gender management consulting
Our understanding of gender lies in our structural analysis of overlapping systems: race, class, ability, sexuality, geography and more. Intersectionality is not about categories of identity, but about institutions, distribution of power, resources and visibility.
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The different dimensions of inequality are pivotal to our approach. We focus on helping organisations understand how gender operates within their systems — in decision-making, service delivery, culture and strategy, and what it takes to shift that in an intersectional and transformative manner.​
We progress organisational change across these areas:
Positionality — A commitment to making power dynamic visible by showcasing how it manifests within organisations: Whose knowledge is centred, whose needs are planned and who gets to define success.
Accountability — An approach to strategies, audits and evaluation tools that ensures gender commitments are not performative, reflecting genuine impact on women, gender-diverse people, and marginalised groups.
Historicity — An understanding that inequality is incidental, but rather built into structures through legacies of colonialism and exclusion. This shapes how we approach reform: context not erasure.
The organisational commitments that set our approach apart
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We embrace a participatory and co-creative approach to developing our proprietary frameworks and approaches on issues relating to women, gender, race, human rights and more.
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We generate global and local insights by collaborating with members of our Local Researchers Network whenever possible, allowing us to better understand context and work directly with those on the ground.
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We seek to give voice and recognition to the marginalised voices that exist within current social and economic structures and use sophisticated management consulting frameworks and analysis to do this.
