How I got here…

There is nothing too exceptional in how I got here but it might help to you to imagine where we might go together.

As a graduate engineer and then a project manager I learned to see the world in systems. I enjoyed solving problems in the build environment but imagined a wider range of dots to be joining and a more human impact from my work.

Channelling more adventurous ancestors, I became a humanitarian professional with Save the Children towards the peak of 2010s institutionalised aid. The all-consuming purpose of the team and galvanising energy of communities in crisis was transformative to me. It was, as Springsteen put it, “the moment when you set fire to your insecurities and just go”.

I loved this period of my live, but I knew as I became a parent that my personal landscape was changing as was the humanitarian world I was part of. I found new energy in transforming organisations, exploring systems change and becoming more critical in my thinking. As the creaking system of aid faced a potentially terminal reckoning, I had laid the foundations to respond with a more adaptive and perhaps more impactful phase in my journey.

Now, working independently and choosing my tribe is liberating, enriching and expansive. I’m always open to chat if you share my sense of possibility and a desire to do something meaningful.