{"id":17275,"date":"2026-06-26T10:24:18","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T09:24:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pdasociety.org.uk\/pda2025staging\/?p=17275"},"modified":"2026-07-14T15:44:30","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T14:44:30","slug":"pda-society-welcomes-its-new-ceo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pdasociety.org.uk\/pda2025staging\/pda-society-welcomes-its-new-ceo\/","title":{"rendered":"PDA Society welcomes its new CEO"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She has previously worked as an Interim CEO and Organisation Effectiveness Director at Respond, a charity supporting autistic people and people with a learning disability who have experienced abuse, violence or trauma. Earlier in her career, she was also Director of Clinical Services at SurvivorsUK and Head of Talking Therapies at Wimbledon Guild.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Georgina is a qualified&nbsp;psychodynamic&nbsp;psychotherapist&nbsp;and music therapist, who has supported&nbsp;autistic children and adults&nbsp;through her work. She understands the importance of lived experience as a parent carer&nbsp;of a&nbsp;SEN child&nbsp;herself and also having served as a Trustee for both Carers First and Embrace Child&nbsp;Survivors&nbsp;of Crime.&nbsp;<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;On behalf of the Trustees and team at the PDA Society, we are delighted to have someone of Georgina\u2019s calibre joining us to support the important work we do with PDAers and their families. Georgina is experienced, warm and as ambitious about&nbsp;building&nbsp;awareness and understanding about PDA and helping PDAers thrive as we are.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sally Cairns, Chair of Trustees<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI\u2019m excited to be joining the PDA Society at such an important time, as the charity marks its 10th anniversary. I\u2019m dedicated to deepening understanding of PDA in all its complexity, and working relationally across systems to create and sustain environments in which PDAers of all ages and their families can truly thrive. I look forward to working in collaboration with the Trustees, the team and our wider community of stakeholders to build on that impact and shape a thoughtful and ambitious path forward.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Georgina Hoare, PDA Society incoming CEO<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019re thrilled to announce today the appointment of Georgina Hoare as the new CEO of the PDA Society, starting on 10 August 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Georgina has a wealth of charity leadership experience and is joining us from Tavistock Consulting, where she is a Senior Organisational Consultant working with leaders across sectors, providing bespoke organisational consultancy, executive and team coaching. She has dedicated her career to leading charities that exist because of unmet needs and brings extensive leadership experience at both Director and CEO level.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":17276,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[151,150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogs","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pdasociety.org.uk\/pda2025staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pdasociety.org.uk\/pda2025staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pdasociety.org.uk\/pda2025staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdasociety.org.uk\/pda2025staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdasociety.org.uk\/pda2025staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17275"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdasociety.org.uk\/pda2025staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17414,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdasociety.org.uk\/pda2025staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17275\/revisions\/17414"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdasociety.org.uk\/pda2025staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pdasociety.org.uk\/pda2025staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdasociety.org.uk\/pda2025staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdasociety.org.uk\/pda2025staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}