Work With me
Inspired by leading evidence-based and practice-led systems-change and CEO programmes, I combine deep leadership work with practical system-change tools.
Transformational leadership journeys
One-to-one work that helps you shift how you see, decide and act, so you can lead through uncertainty with clarity and courage.
Systems change labs
Structured processes to understand your system, co-create new solutions with partners, and test them in practice.
Policy and narrative support
Help to align your positions, partnerships and media presence so your public voice matches your values and strategy.
Strategy and operating model design
Support to build strategies, structures and ways of working that fit complex realities rather than simple charts.
Capability building and mentoring
Practical tools, peer learning and ongoing mentoring to embed new habits and skills across your leadership team.
Your Journey: What Working Together Looks Like
01.
Diagnostic: See the System
Confidential conversations with you to surface the real dynamics at play.
• Mapping of your organisational and system context – key actors, incentives, risks, opportunities, power, narratives and blocks.
• Surface where your organisation helps or hinders the change you want.
• A concise insight briefing highlighting leverage points and the key shifts required in leadership, strategy, policy and narrative.
• Identify a small number of high-leverage challenges to focus on.
You gain:
A shared, simple, honest picture of where you are now and what really needs to change, beyond symptoms and quick fixes. A clear focus for your energy and resources.
02.
Your Upgrade: Leadership and Consciousness Shift
One-to-one sessions focused on your leadership patterns, decision-making, strengths, resilience and blind spots.
• Practical practices to increase self-awareness, emotional regulation, resilience and clarity under pressure.
• Reflection on role, power and responsibility as a system leader, not only as an organisational head.
• Build reflective practices so you can respond, not just react.
• Clarify the kind of leader the system now needs you to become.
You gain:
A steadier presence, stronger judgment, and more conscious use of your power and platform. A steadier internal compass and the personal capacity to hold complex change without burning out or defaulting to old habits.
03.
Design Strategy and Systems Change for Real-World Complexity
Co-creation of a clear, living strategy that connects vision, outcomes, resources and constraints.
• Identification of a small number of high-leverage initiatives that can shift the system, not just optimise the status quo.
• Alignment of internal structures, governance and key roles with the strategy you actually want to deliver.
• Co-create a focused strategy that links purpose, outcomes, money, measurement, people and partners.
• Choose a few bold, realistic moves that can shift the system, not just optimise your organisation.
• Align your structure, key roles and governance to support that strategy.
You gain:
a strategy you believe in and can communicate in a few sentences, plus concrete moves that make progress visible and measurable. A plan to actually implement with your team and partners.
04.
Align Story, Policy and Partnerships
Clarify your policy positions that matter in your system, and how they connect to your purpose and evidence base.
• Identify priority partners, coalitions and forums where your voice and actions will have most impact.
• Decide which alliances, networks and forums to invest in.
• Develop clear media angles that support your strategy and protect your reputation in difficult moments.
• Shape a simple, honest narrative that connects your strategy with what you say in public and to stakeholders.
You gain:
An influence plan that joins up policy work, partnerships and communications into one coherent system of action and story.
05.
Embed New Habits and Capabilities
Targeted work with your senior team or key change agents to cascade thinking and tools.
• Simple routines and practices (meetings, decision processes, learning loops) that keep the system in view.
• Support to design internal experiments and feedback mechanisms so you can learn quickly and adapt.
• Sustain your senior team to adopt shared practices for collaboration, learning and accountability.
• Create simple tools your people can keep using once the formal work ends.
You gain:
A leadership team that shares your lens on the system, and a working rhythm that keeps transformation moving without constant external support. An organisation that can keep changing and learning without constant crisis or external pressure.
06.
The Reset: Review, Integrate and Look Ahead
Take stock of what has shifted in you, your organisation and the wider system.
• Refine strategy, roles, narratives and ways of working based on what you are learning.
• A light-touch forward plan for the next 12–24 months, including where to deepen, pause or pivot, with a clearer sense of what only you can do.
• Refine strategy, roles and ways of working based on what you are learning.
You gain:
A clear sense of progress, renewed focus, and confidence about your next phase as a leader and changemaker. Confidence that you are moving the system in the right direction, and a realistic path for the next stage
How My Ecosystem Works
Think of this as a living thought and experiential leadership ecosystem rather than a single offer. Each pathway is a portal into a different depth of work. You choose what is right for you in this moment.
Energy & Strategy Audit
90-minute diagnostic for high performers who feel stuck, mapping emergent crisis points, misalignments, and leverage points, followed by a concise insight document.
A premium day or half-day immersion to clarify vision, values, strategy, and blocks, followed by a 30-day action map for real-world application.
Ongoing relationship as a high-level thought partner and energetic strategist (2 calls per month plus asynchronous support) for a small number of leaders and organisations.
Deep partnership with a maximum of three organisations to hold the future vision, weave insights across initiatives, and guide strategy before it lands in operations.
Lead Change That Actually Changes Systems
• Sharper strategic clarity
You’ll leave with a grounded, testable strategy that aligns your purpose, business model, policy positions and stakeholder expectations, so decisions become faster and more confident.
• A new level of leadership presence
You’ll develop the self‑awareness, calm and courage to lead in uncertainty, hold tension, and communicate with authority and integrity when the stakes are high.
• System‑level sightlines
You’ll see your organisation inside the wider system: power dynamics, incentives, narratives and patterns. You’ll know where small, well‑chosen moves can unlock outsized change.
• Coherent story and influence
You’ll shape a clear public narrative—from board papers and policy briefs to media messages and measurement models —that reinforces your strategy and builds trust with those who matter.
• Embedded capabilities, not one‑off inspiration
You and your team will get simple tools and practices you can keep using long after the engagement ends, so change becomes how you work, not a project you manage.
If your decisions ripple through a wider system, this work is for you
You’re responsible for more than this quarter’s results. You’re holding culture, reputation, impact and risk across complex, interlocking systems.
You need space to think differently, find frameworks that match that complexity, and work with a trusted partner who will challenge and support you.
This work is designed for you if you’re a CEO, senior executive, system leader, charity director, policy maker, influencer or academic changemaker, who wants to transform not just your organisation, but the wider systems you’re touching.