Location Independent: Currently Nomadic | Founder Mentor
I work on the gap between what people and organisations say they value and what they actually do, in practice. And when work has stopped working for you, I help you build your Plan B before you need it.
For over two decades across consulting, executive leadership, board governance, and founding my own ventures, my focus has been on making core values operational through organisational troubleshooting and consulting. I take on interim executive roles and advisory work for companies that need to change quickly and credibly, at the collective level.
Alongside that, I help people build a Plan B before a system that isn't designed for them spits them out when it's done with them...A Plan B that's built for you, individually, and not put on the back burner for 'someday' which unexpectedly becomes 'too late'...
LATEST: I'm currently wandering around & working from China & SE Asia with 3 teens in tow. Follow my blog posts about it here →
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If you're building Plan B...
I left the corporate world in 2004 with my own Plan B. Since then, I've co-founded a company that scaled to an 8-figure valuation, held interim executive roles for other organisations mid-crisis, and built multiple ventures of my own from scratch.
The challenge now for most people is that things have shifted; they wait until they're pushed and AI is accelerating that timeline for many. I can help...
Build Different - a four-week cohort for people building a Plan B before AI or redundancy forces the decision. This is a quick start for people who need to move fast.
Website in 1 Day - back this October. The 2012 event that helped people build their first website in a single day, resurrected.
Lock In - monthly support when you have something you can sell and you're ready to lock in, sell it and build.
Not sure where to start? A Clear Hour is a single, affordable session to work out what your next move is.
If you're running a company...
Interim executive leadership. COO, transformation, and operational leadership for organisations in periods of change, crisis, or growth. Recent work includes reframing the theory of change and funding narrative for a European human rights organisation that faced significant challenges, repositioning it for sustainability.
Advisory and consulting. Shorter engagements on operational design, equity and equality strategy, governance, and the practical work of aligning what an organisation says with what it does. I work with organisations and founder teams who want the work to be real, not performative. Recent partnerships include a year-long collaboration with YWCA Southeast Wisconsin delivering organisational culture development and an anti-racism curriculum.
Speaking and writing. Keynotes, panels, commissioned pieces, and podcast guesting on equity & equality, organisational and systemic change, and the operational craft of building more honest organisations.