Reclaim Perspective. Restore Purpose. Reanimate Place.
Imaginative interventions for ambitious organisations. I work at the edges of conventional thinking to help you and your teams harness imagination, design collective futures, and build systems rooted in creativity, connection and care.
Join The Tinderbox, a dispatch on leading imaginative organisations, living imaginative lives, and loving imaginative places.
Restore Purpose
Imaginative Strategy
Moving teams from day-to-day firefighting to co-designing collective futures. If your team or organisation is undergoing structural changes, developing new strategies, or re-evaluating your focus and approach, I can help you focus, prioritise and surface your golden thread.
Loom & Weave: a facilitated strategy workshop designed to encourage curiosity, dialogue, and imaginative thinking. This is perfect for leadership teams needing to refine their future strategy and identify key areas of focus across complex programmes.
Seams & Rivets: An intensive alignment workshop to support teams through change, implementing strategies, or refocusing priorities. We work together to develop agency, connection, and build a shared roadmap.
Reclaim Perspective
Professional Growth
Imagination is one of the most practical capabilities leaders can develop. I support individuals and teams with distilling complexity, fostering resilience, and rediscovering energy and direction.
The Foundry: Cohort-based programmes and interactive sessions designed to cultivate imaginative and futures thinking as a core leadership capability.
The Kiln: An interactive and experiential workshop that utilises imaginative approaches to help teams make connections and develop collaborative energy.
Salt & Steel: Our residency for established leaders seeking to reclaim personal agency and build resilience in a changing landscape.
Reanimate Place
Place, Engagement, and Impact
I help anchor organisations and regional partnerships amplify their impact and social value, underpinned by a meaningful and responsible to engagement.
The Placemakers Forge A targeted session to reanimate civic strategy. We go beyond organisational data and metrics and focus on developing an approach that is rooted in meaningful and sustained partner and stakeholder engagement.
The Breakwater Sessions: An interactive, facilitated design session that makes space for stakeholders to work across boundaries, consider possibilities, and co-create outcomes-focused place-based projects.
Long Burn Residencies
For organisations looking for a deeper engagement with imaginative practice, I offer longer-term residencies and partnerships. I will work with your organisation to help you think through structural disconnects, navigate institutional resistance, and work alongside your team or partnership as an active, critical friend.
Strictly limited to a small number of partners per year to ensure deep, sustained focus.
Keynotes and Cabarets
Need to shake up a conference, ignite an honest conversation about equity, or disrupt ‘business as usual’ at your annual event? I deliver unforgettable performance lectures and culture cabarets that challenge organisational habits with humour, razor-sharp critique, 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 rigour, and a DIY punk ethos and is deeply inspired by the bottle kilns of Stoke-on-Trent and the salt-weathered steel coast of Teesside.
As an LGBTQ+ man and father living on the North Yorkshire coast in Redcar, my work is rooted in the belief that imagination is not just a corporate tool, but a radical, lived practice of world-building from the edges. I seek to create spaces, structures, and support systems for leaders and teams to step outside, dream differently, and design new futures.
I believe that when imagination is placed at the heart of leadership conversations, teams rediscover energy, clarity, and direction.
Recent Collaborations
Join The Tinderbox, a dispatch on leading imaginative organisations, living imaginative lives, and loving imaginative places.