understanding data and digital is crucial for every organisation together with building effective teams.
I’ve had a career of working in start-ups, innovative businesses, and organisations who seek to transform to create powerful data and digital strategies, and help bring their visions to life.
I set up my practice in 2006 after leaving the New Statesman as their online manager and online editor.
I have since worked with some amazing clients that range from the micro to the mighty – including the likes of the British Council, BBC and McCann – as well as found and help build new organisations such as the Open Data Institute, Represent.me, Icebreaker One and Corrick Wales & Partners.
I specialise in helping organisations work out how to consider and implement data and innovations to achieve their bigger purpose – supporting on operations, R&D, strategy, policy and data compliance. Working alongside leaders to understand and bring their vision into being. It can often mean building products, services and teams from the ground up.
Recently, it’s meant working with organisations on net zero/climate change, diversity & inclusion and democracy. It’s also meant working with regulated industries such as energy and water, who are increasingly needing to publish open and shared data to achieve environmental, compliance and business goals.
I’m based in France and work across Europe and the UK. I work mostly remotely but if we identify that working in person would be beneficial then we’ll build that in.
my approach
What does success look like? Ideally, it’s that you’ve achieved, or are on the way to achieving, your goals.
For me, success is that I’ve helped you and your teams so that you no longer, or only infrequently, need me. Sometimes that can be as simple as instilling some new processes. One client recently said how much they appreciated the new simpler way to run the weekly management meeting and how achievable and repeatable the new routine was for how to feedback what had been discussed to the rest of the organisation.
Organisations are only really effective when everyone can work together, where there is trust and where there isn’t a dependency on the efforts of one or two people. That is especially so when doing new, innovative work. Burn-out shouldn’t be considered a natural feature of starting up.
As an experienced trainer, teacher and mentor I love helping people develop and learn from each other. Working with you and your teams, I aim to create workplace cultures of learning, that build strong collaborative relationships, confidence and the conditions to succeed.
strategy | data | implementation 