The crises of our time (ecological, social, economic and political) aren’t separate problems. They are interconnected from the same root causes: A story of separation from nature, from place and from each other. Many of our responses still follow that same story, siloed, short-term and focused on symptoms. More organisations now recognise their challenges are systemic, but don’t yet have the tools, language or capacity to act on that. My work fills the gap between awareness and capability to navigate the complexity of these crises.
What I offer
Learning journeys and capacity building
I design and facilitate learning journeys that build the skills and mindsets to work with complexity, for leadership teams, professionals and young changemakers. The aim is to change how people see their role in a systemic problem, not just to hand them new tools. Learning is practical and learner-led: live projects, case clinics, reflection and coaching sit alongside the concepts.
Useful when your team knows its challenges are systemic, but doesn’t yet have the tools, language or confidence to act on that.
Imagination and visioning workshops
Change needs somewhere to head towards. I design playful, creative workshops that help groups imagine alternative futures and build a shared vision they feel invested in. That vision becomes a guiding star, held alongside an honest picture of the system as it is today.
Useful when you need people to feel and picture other futures, not just talk about them, with creativity at the core so everyone can bring their own.
How We Eat: food experiences
A shared meal is one of the most direct ways to feel how living systems work. I design food experiences where living systems principles like reciprocity are served as edible stories. Local producers, participatory moments and conversation around a communal table are part of each experience. Each one is co-designed with the client, for stakeholder gatherings, team days or network events. Learn more here: How We Eat.
Useful when you want people to see the world in a different light, by learning from nature.
Systemic research and systems mapping
Acting on a complex problem without a clear picture can do more harm than good. I combine stakeholder interviews and research with systems mapping, such as causal loop diagrams, to reveal how the system is driving the problems. Together we move from that picture to leverage points and pathways for action, along with visuals that help you communicate it to others.
Useful when you need to bring diverse stakeholders together around a shared picture of the problem, and build commitment to act on it.
Navigating complex projects
Systemic projects rarely go to plan, especially when it’s a team’s first time doing one. I help teams build the right amount of structure: the research approach, stakeholder engagement, outputs, and an honest view of what it takes to deliver them. As an outside perspective, I bring the overview that’s hard to see from inside the detail, name risks early, and help keep momentum when the unexpected happens.
Useful when you’re taking on a systemic project and want the right structure from the start.
A Handful of Projects
Imagination workshops (coming soon)
How I work
Change happens between people.
How people see the world shapes what they do, and those shifts happen in relationship. That’s why I bring people together, ideally in person, and meet them where they are.
I hold the human side of systems work.
Systemic change brings up values, identity, uncertainty and sometimes eco-anxiety. I create calm, grounded spaces where tension and different worldviews can be worked with rather than smoothed over, drawing on Art of Hosting, Deep Democracy and Theory U.
Nature as teacher.
I see the world as complex, alive and non-linear. Living systems show us how change actually unfolds, through emergence, relationships and adaptation, and that thinking shapes how I design every process.
Honest about what it takes.
I name risks early, give realistic estimates of time and resources, and close projects with a reflection so you can keep what worked.
If you think we could work together, get in touch.
System Change Design: A Process
I combine both design and systems thinking in a process of I call system change design. Design is the process of bringing something new into the world that solves problems intelligently, and systems thinking is a way of making sense of the interrelated, connected parts that form the dynamic systems by which the world is structured, both human created systems, or nature’s systems. Design and systems thinking are mindsets with which I view the world and my agency with which I can create change within it. I see them as inexplicably linked. In fact, design and systems have never been separated in my work since studying Product Design at the Royal College of Art between 2015-18.
