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 in Sevenoaks. My primary focus is developing a Community Land Trust as a governance mechanism for taking land and buildings out of speculative markets and into lasting community stewardship. I also contribute to a Sevenoaks community energy initiative, exploring how a local cooperative could scale across the Darent Valley.

Bioregional

The River Darent, one of approximately 200 chalk streams globally, is the primary organizing thread at this scale. I work to assess and strengthen the governance architecture around the catchment, engaging with existing rights of nature legislation and cultivating the conditions required for a catchment-scale structure with genuine legal authority and ecological monitoring capacity. The geological frame is the Wealden Greensand Ridge, and the hydrological frame is the Darent Valley catchment, nested within the broader Thames system. I contribute to the bioregioning community Living Thames as a co-steward.

Planetary

I am a member of the UN Regeneration Collective, a community of current and former UN staff, diplomats, and experts exploring genuine planetary sensemaking, radical decentralization of power, and designing for complexity, while acknowledging humans as one participant within a broader community of life. I connect the network's planetary scope with the practical and institutional questions I engage at local and bioregional scales.

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. My contribution spans strategy and relationship-building, including co-designing prototype fund architecture and convening across grassroots practitioners, systemic designers, and investors. This extends to developing bioregional financing facilities that hold land, energy, and ecological stewardship work within a single commons institution governed across ecological, agricultural, community, business, and public sector actors.

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. If you live in Sevenoaks or the Darent Valley and are interested in community land stewardship, community energy, or ecological governance, those are the most active entry points right now.

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

If this inquiry resonates, please support its continuity by subscribing to this monthly blog. I will share updates and reflections from the communities and initiatives I engage, alongside questions, tensions, and lessons emerging through practice.

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