Where are understanding and judgement when you need them?

How does change happen?

How can you have any confidence that your interventions will solve a specific problem?  

Calling science to the rescue, we often discover that knowledge comes encased in jargon, hedged with caveats, following conventions, social and technical rules within specialised fields. 

And yet, day to day challenges are nothing if not idiosyncratic, thorny, complicated, poorly defined beasts. 

Tackling them requires understanding and judgement, that is bringing into contact ideas developed in a variety of fields of knowledge, putting aside their specialised, jargonistic garb while keeping their hard earned rigour. 

Having spent some decades studying, training, working as a social scientist, I realise that what I enjoy most is the practical challenge of using my learning to make sense of and tackle new problems in new circumstances and to enable the kind of access to knowledge that serves understanding and judgment. 

The ‘last mile’ in the journey from lab or library to each and every one of us, is as hard as it is truly consequential. 

I bring together my long term commitment to scientific truth, analytical rigour and knowledge accumulation with socially sensitive methods and strategies for intervention in specific contexts and circumstances to help organisations and individuals access and integrate useful insight from social sciences. 

For organizations

I draw on my training and research across social sciences and a specific regimen of keeping my knowledge up-to-date to integrate various forms of insight, to design a rigorous and responsive approach to specific problems. 

For individuals

Actively tackling our blind spots, the areas of personal and professional expression neglected in the past is an arduous, brave process that requires patience as well as willingness to embrace vulnerability.

Using a variety of sources – social science research, as well as psychology, literature and the arts – I design learning experiences for professionals interested in self-development.