Organisations & Public Speaking

Public Speaking

Author of When Land Owners and Land Seekers Make Love, Not War - for Dark Mountain; Land Rights and Land Wrongs, 2024.

Panelist at the Land Skills Fair with Mac McCartney, 2023 - Finding a More Authentic Relationship to land through Ancestry, Craft, Ceremony and Song

Paradigm Shift & Regenerative Culture @ Wonderland Festival, 2020

Loving the Void @ Your Music, Your Way Online Summit + co-hosting summit opening and closure with founder Daniel Barber, 2020

Radio Presenter: Piano @ KPFA.org Guest host for 5 x 3h shows presenting contemporary & improvised piano music from around the world, 2016-17

The Lost Arts of Collective Joy @ the Stiglitz School of Leadership & Creativity, 2011

What is Play and How do Adults Play? @ Nestle & JWT Advertising, 2010

How Do You Want to Live? @ The Dark Mountain Festival + 2 Limina weekends, 2009-10

Behaviour Change Project Design @ Kaos Pilots school for Social Entrepreneurs, Denmark 2006 + Student Volunteering England Leadership Training 2007, 2008 + Voices for Change Summer School 2006

The Power of a Positive Outlook @ The Scottish Parliament / Big Lottery Fund Conference on Public Engagement, 2006

Mouthing Off: The Art of Not Speaking @ Pioneers of Change 2006.

Organisations, 2004-2011

Brand Conspiracy | Leading singing as part of branding processes with Pepsi, GlaxoSmithKline and British Homeopathic Association

Stepping Stones Project | Youth Initiation, Marin California | Board Member, Youth Mentor, Fundraiser ($200k), Program Development Co-ordinator

The Fun Fed | Play for adults, London | Strategic Advisor, Explorer in Residence, Head of R&D, singing workshop facilitator

Anti-Apathy | Social change organisation | Project Founder and Director, TheNag.net - website getting 10,000 members to do one thing a month to make their lifestyles more sustainable. Named Best Ethical Website of 2007 by Yahoo!, featured in The Guardian, New Statesman and Metro.

Demos | Think tank, London | Researcher and author working on learning, technology and futures thinking

Freelance | Research, think pieces and facilitation for: Future Considerations, Flamingo International, Futurelab, IIED, Clear Village.

Education

BA Political Science, 1st Class Honours, Queens University Belfast with second year (with full scholarship) at UC Berkeley, California (4.0) 2000-03.