Chair, investor, and adviser to a small number of organisations doing important work.

Interested in long-term thinking, social change, and ambitious ideas that do not fit neatly into existing categories.

Recent writing

  • Scenario planning for a post-crisis world

    (originally published at www.firetail.co.uk) Scenario planning is a strategic tool designed to help organisations prepare for a range of possible futures. It is not about predicting the future. Fundamentally,…

  • The death of fundraising

    Even before the pandemic, traditional charity fundraising was stagnating. The pandemic has turned a conversation about the challenges of long-term decline into one about short-term collapse.  Thinking about…

  • Choices in a crisis v choices for renewal

    [This is based on a quick twitter thread we published] “We’re out of the whack-a-mole phase” according to one CEO I spoke to this week. As organisations move beyond the…

  • Complexity on purpose

    This article is the third in a series on making strategy in social progress organisations.  It explores three recurring themes in our conversations with our clients – about…