Exploring practices for working in and with complexity, to regenerate the environment and our societies.

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Systems Change

Learning from COVID-19

Learning from COVID-19

Contributing to global conversations about how to chart a course forward. COVID-19 has profoundly changed our world in one short/interminable year. Many people have lost their lives. Society has been turned upside down. Many people have been working to keep their organisations, groups, businesses and government departments alive, rapidly

Fieldnotes: Communicating Systems Strategy

Fieldnotes: Communicating Systems Strategy

This post focuses on developing some good practice patterns for communicating systems change work. I have a particular interest in systems change strategies, which may be early stage or representing organisations in transition to working more systemically.

Towards Targeted Systems Change

Towards Targeted Systems Change

Modelling and communicating how to shift systems As I’ve written about in the recent past, [https://medium.com/mdes-environmental-social-impact] I focused my recently completed Masters of Design focused on a domain I’m particularly passionate about — environmental issues. This post aims to uncover some of the research, thinking and

On Scaling Impact

On Scaling Impact

We run our Pilot, and then if it works, we scale it up. Yet, all too often the ‘scaled up’ version doesn’t have the same effect as the pilot. Why is this? In a word: complexity.

End of 2018 Reflections: Perspectives on Systems Change, Strategic Design, and Seasonality

End of 2018 Reflections: Perspectives on Systems Change, Strategic Design, and Seasonality

This post focuses on some professional and personal reflections from 2018, spanning my Masters, Consulting, and more. In it, I touch on systems change, experimentation, strategy, seasonality and nature.