About Me
Welcome, friends! I am a systems change strategist and network weaver based in Sevenoaks, UK. I am passionate about contributing to the emergence of a regenerative societal paradigm that aligns human systems with living ecosystems by continuously renewing, adapting, and enhancing collective wellbeing.
Guided by this vision, I work to catalyze and connect communities and initiatives across domains, scales, contexts, and time horizons. I operate as a “radical free agent,” choosing to work outside formal organizational constraints in order to maximize my agency in service of collective impact. This flexibility allows me to become what each community most needs in a given moment.
To navigate complexity, I take a nested systems perspective - from individual to community, bioregion, and planet (with many layers in between). This way of working is grounded in ongoing inquiry, experimentation, and learning as I engage within and across these interconnected systems. In practice, this means being actively involved in diverse communities and organizations at multiple scales, and helping to foster coherence and symbiosis among them.
For a more detailed explanation of my work, please read this post.
Current Portfolio
The following initiatives represent the nested systems approach described above, each operating at a scale that mutually informs and reinforces the others. Subsequent posts will explore different components of this portfolio in depth.
Local
I base my community level work around where I live in Sevenoaks town. I primarily engage through Sevenoaks Climate Action Network, contributing to community energy and Library of Things initiatives, co-organizing the 2026 Sevenoaks Climate Fair, and introducing frameworks like doughnut economics into local discourse. In my personal capacity, I am critiquing local planning and governance documents and identifying where emerging alternatives can be made actionable for councillors and residents.
Bioregional
I work to strengthen coherence across the river valleys and ridges surrounding Sevenoaks, exploring how dispersed local initiatives can be woven into a functioning bioregional system. This involves deepening existing efforts in the Darent Valley and exploring the conditions for a similar initiative along the Greensand Ridge. I also contribute to Bioregional Thames as a co-steward, helping hold the collective vision and bridging valley-level activity with the broader Thames bioregional network.
Planetary
I am becoming active within the UN Regeneration Collective, a community of current and former UN staff, diplomats, and experts exploring what it would mean to return to first principles in designing global governance. The existing architecture, built on a neoliberal nation-state logic, is structurally inadequate for the entangled challenges it faces. What is needed is something capable of genuine planetary sensemaking, radical decentralization of power, and designing for complexity, while acknowledging humans as one participant within a broader community of life. I am currently sensemaking within the network, identifying where my specific experience and skillset would have the most leverage.
Finance (as a cross-scale domain)
I contribute to Financing Ecosystems for Systemic Transformation (FEST), a field-building community prototyping new ways to direct capital toward systemic transformation. Rather than optimizing within existing financial structures, FEST develops pooled, collectively governed mechanisms that resource practitioners, community leaders, and field-builders whose work generates long-term value the current economy struggles to fund. My contribution spans strategy and relationship-building through co-designing prototype fund architecture and convening with grassroots actors, systemic designers, and investors.
Across Scales and Domains
I analyze institutional, organizational, and community strategies through a systemic, regenerative, and bioregional lens. I critique embedded assumptions, identify leverage points, co-design transformative alternatives, and translate complex information into actionable entry points for those who want to engage directly.
Working Together
This engagement model is intentionally flexible. Different collaborators operate in distinct contexts, and rigid service categories tend to obscure more than they clarify. With this in mind, it helps to name what collaboration can actually look like.
For organizations and initiatives, this might involve:
- Facilitated sensemaking sessions to surface dynamics, gaps, and leverage points before jumping to solutions
- One-on-one strategic advisory for navigating complex or uncertain terrain
- Review and critique of planning, governance, or strategy documents from a systemic, regenerative, and bioregional perspective
- Network design and deliberate convening of actors who share an intention but lack coordination
- Strategic integration of new initiatives into an existing field of practice, where alignment and mutual reinforcement justify it
- Translation initiatives for information-sharing and coherence across contexts
- Ongoing collaboration on projects already underway
At the planetary scale, this extends to connecting global frameworks with local context, weaving relationships between organizations operating across scales, and cultivating the conditions under which planetary identity (the shared recognition that Earth is a place we all emerge from and depend on) can take root and reinforce itself.
For community members at any scale who want to get involved but aren't sure where to start, please reach out! Part of what I do is help people locate themselves within larger systems and identify where their particular capacities have the most leverage.
For patrons, it is important to understand what sustained support actually enables. Much of the most consequential work is invisible by conventional measures, such as the relationships that take months to build before coordination becomes possible, the continuous sensemaking that prevents wasted effort, and the cross-scale translation that keeps local action coherent with planetary direction. These processes don't produce immediate deliverables. They produce the conditions under which genuine systems change becomes possible. Portfolio patronage funds this substrate.
I am also available for part-time freelance engagements that complement and mutually reinforce the broader portfolio. If your work is sufficiently aligned, collaboration is worth exploring.
Does this work intersect with your own, professionally or personally? Do you have questions, constructive critiques, or simply want to explore synergies? Connect with me via email or LinkedIn.
An Invitation to Support My Livelihood
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