People-centred change,
where it matters most.
Welcome. I’m a consultant and writer — I help global institutions, and individual leaders, to make necessary changes in how they work.
My focus is on effective delivery for the most marginalised. This includes urgent but under-addressed global challenges, and protracted situations of conflict / instability.
My work draws on twenty years experience with strategy implementation & change management, cutting across development, peace processes, humanitarian relief, and (in a past life) private sector risk governance.
Podcast
One Step Forward is an oral history of public service in the hardest times. In each episode I interview a practitioner doing impactful work for the most marginalised, often amidst serious violence or a hostile political environment.
Visit the website at onestepforward.fm, or subscribe via: iTunes | Spotify | RSS
Consulting
I have helped dozens of global institutions identify new ways of working when the old ones don’t cut it anymore. More importantly I’ve unblocked those critical first few steps forward.
Follies in Fragile States
This is the first-ever inside account of a multilateral stabilisation initiative. It unpacks “what went wrong” in the Democratic Republic of the Congo from 2007 onwards, and identifies five clear lessons for engagement elsewhere.
Available from Amazon and other booksellers, or click through for a free sample chapter.
Other publications
Applied thinking on change leadership in complex multilateral contexts.
This is a mix of published work for client organisations; working papers for think tanks; and short pieces for periodicals.
