Turning imagination into action
Fusing twenty years of senior academic leadership, systems thinking, and creativity to help organisations navigate change, build collaborative strategy, and develop innovative and resilient teams.
Kieran has a rare and powerful gift: the ability to envision what’s possible and inspire others to believe in it too.
Join The Tinderbox, a dispatch on leading imaginative organisations, living imaginative lives, and loving imaginative places.
Strategy Sprints
Shift from firefighting to co-designing collaborative futures.
These high-energy facilitated sprints break down departmental silos, encourage new ways of working, and support the development of co-owned operational roadmaps. If your organisation is undergoing structural change or rethinking systems, structures, and strategy, we can help you focus, prioritise, and develop shared purpose within and across your organisation.
Systems Leadership and Capability
Equipping leaders with the mindset to embrace complexity with adaptive confidence.
Through cohort development programmes and long-term partnerships, we transform institutional constraints into the raw material for creativity and innovation. These programmes harness and protect personal agency to create futures-focused leaders.
Cultural Diagnostics
Uncovering the root causes of workplace friction to restore agency, trust, and purpose.
Deep qualitative reviews, workload architecture mapping, and trust diagnostics for organisations and teams navigating post-restructure burnout, communication silos, or operational fatigue.
Keynotes and Cabarets
Disrupting business as usual through academic rigour, sharp critique, and performance.
High-impact performance lectures that fuse professorial expertise with creative storytelling, challenging organizational habits with humor, razor-sharp analysis, and radical imagination.
Ready to ignite your next chapter?
Whether you need to realign a leadership team during a restructure, protect your staff from burnout, or shake up your next event, let’s design a bespoke intervention that fits your budget and your timeline.
My Ethos
My practice combines thoughtful facilitation, academic rigor, and a DIY punk ethos and is inspired by the bottle kilns of Stoke-on-Trent and the salt-weathered steel coast of Teesside.
Having spent two decades in higher education leadership and professional services, I have a grounded understanding of complex organisations and a deep interest in imagination as a leadership capability.
As an LGBTQ+ man, husband, and father living on the North Yorkshire coast in Redcar, my work is rooted in the belief that imagination is a vital, practical act of world-building from the edges
I believe that when imagination is placed at the heart of leadership conversations, teams rediscover energy, clarity, and direction.
Recent Collaborations
Join The Tinderbox, my dispatch on leading imaginative organisations, living imaginative lives, and loving imaginative places and communities.