As one of the pioneers of business anthropology I specialise in making organisations purpose led, people centric and highly productive in order to achieve sustainability and growth.
I combine my expertise in the social sciences with executive coaching, team systemic coaching and process consulting to work with senior leaders and their teams to develop dynamic and collaborative organisational cultures that connect their values with those of their employees, consumers and wider stakeholders
I hold a PhD in Social Anthropology and have formal training in executive coaching (EMCC EQA), systemic team coaching, facilitation, organisational process consulting, qualitative research and group psychoanalysis. I am a guest lecturer at Cass Business School in marketing and a Visiting Scholar at the Royal College of Art in design anthropology. I am a fellow at the Royal Society of Arts (RSA), a TEDx speaker and my thinking and work has appeared in the Financial Times and other media.
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SPEAKING
I give key note talks on a number of cultural topics relating to Organisational Culture, Leadership, Innovation, Consumer Trends, Customer Centricity Anthropology, Architecture & Design.
To book me to give a talk to your company go to contacts to arrange a chat.
SELECTED TALKS
May 2019
Creating a Customer Centric Culture
Knauf Insulation Marketing & Sales Conference, Belgrade
June 2018
Finding The Peacock: The Rise of Male Nationalism
Cultural Insight Forum at Mother Ad Agency
June 2017
Moving from an ‘Insight Anxiety’ Culture to a ‘Solution Thinking’ Culture
Marks & Spencer’s Insight Festival
July 2014
Office Space Design through Anthropological Thinking
Royal College of Art (RCA)
Oct 2018
Embracing Conflict: Designing for Culture
Service Design Days, Barcelona
June 2018
Becoming a Customer Centric Organisation
Cass Business School, MBA Course
March 2017
Why Culture is Messy and Why That's Good
TEDx
July 2014
Behaviour Change, Consumer Culture and the Importance of Anthropology
Kimberly Clark
Sept 2018
Male Allies: How To Be a Powerful Advocate for Inclusion
Everywoman
June 2017
Anthropological Insights to Value Propositions
Knauf, General Managers Meeting, Croatia
June 2016
Deconstructing Cultural Mess: How Anthropology works in Innovation
J.Walter Thompson (JWT)
Sept 2013
Big Data or Big Ethnographic Data?: Positioning Big Data within the Ethnographic Space
Royal Institute of Great Britain, Ethnographic Praxis in Industry (EPIC)