The Chancery Lane Project
I lead The Chancery Lane Project. The project works with corporate and commercial lawyers to rewire contracts and laws, helping create practical legal solutions to tackle climate change using collaborative problem solving, and in so doing creating new market norms for lawyers and lawmakers to use.
View ProjectLegal Recourse
I am working across multiple facets of the legal sector, exploring how law can be used to effect environmental change at speed and scale. My work ranges across: Strategy advice to commercial law firms on responding to the twin crises of climate breakdown and biodiversity collapse; Support to a range of campaigns and campaigning organisations; and Strategy development to philanthropic foundations seeking to enter the field.
View ProjectStronger Stories
I’m working with Stronger Stories, assisting them to develop a movement that uses storytelling to help good ideas get heard. My work has three strands. First, I’m supporting them to increase their engagement in the environment sector. Second, I’m helping them develop an open source, distributed and enabling organisational structure capable of building a movement. Third, I’m helping them keep the show on the road while we move Stronger Stories from consultancy to movement.
View ProjectBetter Nature
Launched at the start 2020, Better Nature aims to place nature and natural resources at the centre of emerging efforts to redesign our social, economic and political systems, to ensure the continued wellbeing of humanity on a healthy and thriving planet. Our analysis indicates that the transformation of humanity’s activities so they restore nature is only possible at the speed required through political-economic rule change. Such a change will only be realised via strategic and targeted civic mobilisation, enabled by narrative change. These three elements, political-economic rule change, narrative change and civic mobilisation, define our approach to catalysing systems change. Moving forward, we are supporting multiple keystone actors to adopt this approach, adapting existing and building new infrastructure, grant...
View ProjectCapacity Building and Support
I provide capacity building and support to a range of organisations and individuals focused on developing solutions that are proportionate to the environmental and social challenges facing us. Current themes, common to many of the organisations I’m engaged with, are around improving communications and engagement, identifying and securing funding, and strategy development within complex systems.
View ProjectConsulting Projects
I continue to work for a range of clients delivering consulting projects using a Systems Psychodynamics approach. Clients I have recently completed work for include a major London housing association, a charity working in the homelessness sector and a small retail social enterprise.
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