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Born in 1971 in West London, moved north to the shires.

Spent much of my early years playing in the woods.

The woods were a place of endless possibility.

The original innovation lab.

I felt grounded in the woods.

I belonged. 

At 16 I started a Saturday job at The Body Shop and was blown away by Anita Roddick and everything she stood for.

It was the first time I became aware of Indigenous people on our planet. 

I was starting to join the dots. 

The internet still didn’t exist

In the late 1980’s Acid House was emerging and I attended my first raves, magical parties that revealed cultures could be far more loving, diverse, caring, creative and co-operative than I’d been led to believe. 

I felt that belonging again that I’d had in the woods. 

University involved running many club nights, and I dived into music when I graduated.

I was DJing three nights a week, started a record label, and promoting club nights.

The internet was arriving, you still had to dial up through a phone line, it was painfully slow, but you could see how disruptive it was going to be.  

In 2000 my brother and I started an internet radio station  in a shed in Brick Lane - Space.FM - then the first internet bubble burst and at 27 I fell seriously ill.

My health deteriorated rapidly, I ended up in hospital, I was diagnosed as a TYPE 1 Diabetic.

That was a big moment, a portal, I began a journey of deep inner inquiry, why had my body glitched? 

I went back to the woods.

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Over the last 25 years I’ve worked and practised as a DJ, facilitator, design researcher, communications strategist, writer, campaigner, co-designer, activist, artist and learning guide.

In 2006 I fell down a climate change hole while researching a project, I’ve never really come back up.

I spent the following 12 years working intensely with courageous brands, NGO’s, campaigners, foundations, activists, artists, designers, social entrepreneurs, scientists, ecologists, wisdom teachers and place based communities.  

Prototyping, co-creating and launching campaigns, platforms, products, creative collaborations and movements attempting to slow down the destruction of our living Earth and to put life at the centre.

I’ve collaborated with teams in many different types of organisation - including Nokia, Google, Patagonia, Finisterre, The UN, The Global Goals, Ecover, Boston Tea Party, Girl Effect, RSPB, National Trust, Marine Conservation Society, Common Seas, City to Sea, The Green Economy Coalition, Wellbeing Economy Alliance, Extinction Rebellion and UKSCN to name a few.

I co-founded Good for Nothing, Swarm Partners,  The Wild Network and We Are Ocean collectives. Initiatives designed to convene people in radical collaboration, to harness community and collective energy towards meaningful change for people and nature, while pioneering new ways of working and mobilising - open, emergent, experimental, self-organising.

In 2018 I started The Spaceship Earth Podcast from the studio in my garden. The podcast was shortlisted in the climate category in the British Podcast Awards in 2022.

In 2020 I co-authored Stories for Life, which explores the power of cultural stories in shaping the design of human economic systems and our ways of relating to the Earth. An offering to support cultural narrative change - it has been widely acclaimed and continues to spread.

In 2021 I began guiding peer supported experiential learning programs for regenerative change makers through Becoming Crew.

My core work today is grounded in an entanglement of stories, culture, community, climate and nature - cultivating regenerative cultures, facilitating creative activism, encouraging a deepening of our relationship with the more than human world and creative experimentation in unravelling times.

I continue to host the podcast, write, speak and hold space.

Learning experiences which have shaped my practice:

MSc in Sustainability and Responsibility from Ashridge/Hult - 2009-2011

‘Call of the Wild’ under the teaching of Chris Salisbury at Wildwise/Schumacher College - 2013

‘We Will Dance With Mountains’ guided by Bayo Akomolafe  - 2015

Guest teacher ‘Co-Creating the Emerging Future’ at Schumacher College - 2015-2020

Part of the practice team at The Bio-Leadership Project

Peer-learning host training with Huddlecraft - 2020.

Participant in online pilot of Zen and the Art of Saving the Planet with Plum Village

Currently participating in  Kincentric Leadership - 18 month co-learning journey with 80 practitioners from around the planet in an experimental field that places direct collaboration with the more than human world at the heart of all interventions, strategy, culture and ways of working. 

You’ll find me in Bath, with my family. Often in the woods and the waves.

I am autistic and I’m still trying to understand what I am.