Not what it was - quickly losing credibility - Senior Consultant NESTA Employee Review

Nesta used to be innovative and part of the excitement was that there was a portfolio of projects and ways of experimenting with systemic change. Now the whole organisation is structured around behavioural insights (flawed/ biased at best, manipulative at worst) and is swiftly losing credibility in the field of public and social innovation. There's a lack of understanding of basic design principles or care for experts by experience / actually engaging the communities they are supposedly serving - sure, hire a software designer to do service design, it's basically the same thing, right? Also severe nepotism in the senior leadership team, who all gave themselves nice salary bumps as they were making a majority of the organisation redundant....during a recession.