How

Researcher

My PhD candidature research explores how industry, government, academia, and community can produce and test more diverse ideas, more often, sooner, for better social and economic outcomes. Areas of interest include:

  • Idea entrepreneurs
  • Creative communities
  • Collaborative city-making

Which can incorporate:

  • Creative spaces
  • Decentralised autonomous organisation
  • Social innovation
  • Innovation ecosystems
  • Institutioning and intermediation
  • Participatory design practice and implementation
  • Open industry
  • Policy
  • Technology
  • Digital inclusion

UX Director and designer and facilitator for creativity, collaboration, and innovation

Services on offer include:

  • Ideation and collaborative problem solving
  • Research and investigation
  • Strategy development and implementation
  • Open lab development
  • Ecosystem development
  • Support systems design and implementation
  • Decentralised organisation
  • Institutioning and intermediation
  • Project facilitation
  • Workshop facilitation: creativity, collaboration, innovation (includes Design Thinking)
  • Team and organisational leadership / collaboration / management
  • Marketing and communications
  • Project and content production

Content producer for impactful narrative storytelling

Services on offer include:

  • Documentary and short form filmmaking
  • Video and audio editor, recording & post-production
  • Jingle writer, songwriter, music production
  • Writer, copywriter

Hiking Buddy

Sharing experiences with new people in new locations can broaden perspectives and reveal new wisdom.

Services on offer include:

  • Three pre-hike planning sessions
  • Sharing of philosophy and wisdom
  • Discrete conversations (if desired)
  • Creation of good memories
  • A safe and reliable hiking buddy

Places I have explored with hiking buddies, include:

  • The Silk Road
  • Mount Kilimanjaro
  • Kumano Kodo
  • Timbuktu
  • The City of London

Places I would like to explore, include:

  • Tasmania
  • Camino de Santiago
  • Patagonia

IMPACTFUL NARRATIVE STORYTELLING