Fathoms Collective
Co-Founder: Fathoms Collective. May 2024 – Present
Working alongside David Aula’s Unfeasible to bring depth and real human contact to leadership teams and boardrooms. In black and white terms, you might call it organisational development, networking and public speaking.
Include grief, gratitude, silence, depth and traditional oral stories and you’ll be closer to the mark. It’s the work of helping teams to “grow mythic gills”, helping people to feel more comfortable in a community at depth. As relevant (and challenging) to tight teams in the charity and healthcare sectors as it is for multinational corporations.
Recalling Fire
Founder and oral storyteller: Recalling Fire. Jun 2022 – Present
The oral storytelling community restoring our wonder for life.
Guided by mythology, nature-connection and Zen Buddhist practices, Recalling Fire facilitates people to engage with the ancient wisdom contained in traditional oral tales and the wilder places of the world. Since its inception, Recalling Fire has hosted events for over a thousand attendees: organisational teams, activists, social prescribers, volunteers and members of the public.
As well as the work within Fathoms Collective, 2024 was a year of growth for Recalling Fire, working closely with Creative Cornwall to develop the offering, delivering “scruffy self storytelling” workshops for Cornish business owners, attending five renowned wellbeing festival and hosting a full events calendar.
The Wildlife Trusts
Facilitator and storyteller (consultant): The Wildlife Trusts. May 2022 – Present,
The UK’s leading conservation charity.
Devon Wildlife Trust: Writer and creative associate for Pine Martens Bounce Back project 2024 – 2026.
Five Wildlife Trusts across the south west: Facilitator, storyteller and creative associate for Wild Paths – careers in conservation
Guided staff, mentors and volunteers from five Wildlife Trusts in the southwest through community sharing moments, storytelling, fire and music, capturing the stories of the Wild Paths and St Peter’s Reimagined projects and producing a Smiley charity award nominated film.
Dorset Wildlife Trust: St Peter’s Reimagined – an Urban Green Project: Facilitator, storyteller and creative associate.
TEDx
Alia
Co-founder and communications lead: Alia. Aug 2022 – Jan 2024
The US-based start-up reimagining early-years nurture.
Part of the international leadership team creating a new vision of childcare. Responsible for brand evolution, engaging investors, teachers and families. Facilitated and developed the group narrative, established purpose and community values, brand language, website, marketing materials and onboarding processes for newcomers.
The Bio-Leadership Project
Communications lead (consultant): The Bio-Leadership Project: Mar 2021 – Oct 2022
Nature connected leadership and systems change organisation.
Advising core team on communications for the launch of The Bio-Leadership Fellowship, produced brand language, website, creative and marketing campaigns. Secured 50 fellows for a 9-month programme in the first year, a now thriving global network of leaders.
Stella McKenna
Brand development (consultant): Stella McKenna Aug 2021 – Mar 2022
Leadership consultancy.
Facilitated one-to-one coaching sessions to discover and develop founder’s story and true values. Culminated in a full brand guide, values-first website and marketing assets.
Mr Simon Cohen
Co-creator, film-maker and facilitator (consultant): Mr Simon Cohen Apr 2020 – Jan 2022
What If: The video series giving the world a lift during lockdown: Hopeful questions of Death, lockdown and Black Lives Matter with over 350,000 social media interactions.
Y7: Facilitated the youth engagement group for the G7 to prepare media-ready speeches and bring voice, purpose and passion to policy.
Speak Out brand consultant and facilitator (July 2020 – August 2021)
Speak Out: An online course for international change-makers: pitching, public speaking and communicating with purpose. With Special guests Nile Rodgers, Farah Pandith, Muzoon Almellehan and more. Brand development, content and course facilitation.