Curious about change?

My work is most useful when a question cannot be understood by looking at one part of a system alone. It may sit between an organisation’s offer and the wider system, within the way people work together, or across a disjointed ecosystem where those already disadvantaged fall through the gaps.

Each piece of work raises different questions. Where are things not connecting? What barriers and challenges are people encountering? What is working well, and what opportunities sit beyond current structures?

At its heart, this work is about people.

I look across the wider ecosystem, drawing on research, other models and the knowledge held by people closest to the issue. This can reveal connections, gaps and opportunities that are difficult to see from within one part of a system. The response is co-produced around each context and may become a strategy, model or pilot.

Gesher was a response to system failure. Co-founding and building the school meant looking beyond assumptions about education for neurodivergent children and young people, raising more than £15 million and turning an idea into an institution that has received three Outstanding Ofsted judgements.

Structures and processes matter. So do the relationships that allow people to use them well. I am particularly interested in relational trust and relational infrastructure: what allows people to be honest, share expertise, work across difference and take responsibility for something shared.

The conditions adults create become the conditions children and young people experience. When people connect what they know, and discover what they can do together, what feels possible begins to change.

A Single Collective.