I work with organisations that recognise their existing operating models are no longer fit for an environment shaped by constant disruption.

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My work focuses on how organisations are designed to sense, decide and act when conditions are uncertain. Rather than concentrating on individual leaders or behaviours, I focus on the underlying structures, decision mechanisms and assumptions that shape how the organisation functions as a system.

 

This work is grounded in the research and exploration of The Intelligent Organisation, a think tank examining how organisations must evolve to survive and thrive amid increasing disruption.

 

The Intelligent Organisation is where the ideas are explored. This website is the starting point in the application of those ideas.

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Over the past four decades, I have worked in over forty countries across the world, across multiple sectors with many of the world’s most prominent brands.

 

My background includes software engineering, space science with the European Space Agency and formal training in astrophysics. I have lectured at MIT Sloan and work with the University of Cambridge’s Møller Institute on leadership education.

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I have written six books on strategic and societal matters, including a book for the European Commission on the future of skills in Europe. I have worked with former government leaders globally on reimagining government. For over a decade, I wrote a leadership column for the Financial Times.

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My approach is informed by research into how forward-thinking organisations and governments operate under pressure. I draw on anthropology, neuroscience, biology, technology, and human performance to develop a people-centred, adaptive perspective suited to a world where the future is increasingly unknowable.

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I work with organisations through a range of engagements, including speaking, workshops, education programmes and advisory work. How this capability is applied is driven by the outcomes an organisation is seeking, rather than a fixed methodology.

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Alongside my professional work, I have a longstanding interest in human performance and movement. I am a former track sprinter, with a background in both hard and soft martial arts.

 

In recent years, I have taken up parkour, sometimes described as the martial art of skedaddling,  as well as ultradistance trail running, which can be thought of as an increasingly distressing picnic on the move.

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I also enjoy modern jive dancing, which my wife considers my most effective martial art.