About me….
I’m a facilitator and team coach. I’m the author of the book Unhurried at Work and a co-founder of Creative Facilitation.
I’ve been a visiting tutor on the Oxford Strategic Leadership Programme at the Saïd Business School. I’m on the visiting faculty of the Changemakers Leadership programme at Cambridge University’s Homerton College.
My first job was as a speechwriter to Lord Sainsbury, after which I worked in advertising for 15 years. I’m based in Cambridge but often work internationally.
Working better together
I facilitate and coach people to overcome stuckness and work more creatively. I like to take on difficult challenges, where we need to take new risks to make breakthroughs.
I’ve been doing this for quite a long time with all sorts of people.
I’ve worked across UK. Europe, Africa, Asia, Australasia and North America
Working organically
I like to work organically, often in quite small steps. I find a lot of organisations get stuck because they miss out on the small, human details that can make all the difference.
By rushing less, and building trust more carefully, I believe we get much better results.
Stories and Insights
Some reflections on working with groups – you can see the full series of these short videos here.
emotional debt & the law of ruts
How small misunderstandings accumulate to derail teams
a story about storytelling
Stories can create powerful connections… but we should be wary of using them as tools
knowledge overwhelm
Your knowledge can cast a shadow – make sure you make an emotional connection
Some of my Projects
Facilitation training
Cambridge
10 and 11 September 2026
Event facilitation
creative events and meetings
The naked facilitator
bring more artistry to online meetings
More creative rehearsal
upping creativity in organisations
I also run a (free) monthly unhurried conversation online, details/registration here.
My Books
Creative Facilitation
Written with Viv McWaters, 70 pages of inspiration for creative and surprising meetings.
Unhurried
Tells the story of my journey towards a more unhurried way of working, drawing on eight years of conversational experiments, and over 20 years facilitating meetings around the world.