ABOUT
I make visible what people and organisations can't yet see in themselves.
Most people and organisations facing significant change have more intelligence available to them than we can currently see. It is stored in decades of decisions, in the values that held under pressure, in the people who stayed, in the relationships that survived difficulty. In the land. In the patterns that repeat across generations before anyone names them.
My work is to surface that intelligence and help people use it to navigate what is coming.
THE LAST TWO YEARS
From 2023 to 2025, I stepped back from the public circuit to do the concentrated work that the speaking and advisory practice had been pointing toward for a decade.
I worked in private with senior leaders across multiple sectors. I mapped the patterns I had been observing across twenty years of institutional work. I wrote the book.
The result is Leadership Legacy, published by Wiley in 2026, and keynotes built entirely from that research.
The Portman Estate keynote was the first public outing of that work. The room confirmed it.
BACKGROUND
I chair Mental Health First Aid England. During my tenure, it has trained 1 million people in mental health awareness across the UK. That work taught me something foundational about what it means to embed a new intelligence at scale, not through persuasion or campaign, but through structural change in how people understand themselves.
Before that: two decades working at the intersection of technology, ecology, and leadership. As an advisor. As a speaker. As a researcher. As an artist.
I am the person organisations and individuals call when the familiar frame has stopped working.
In November 2025, Arts University Plymouth awarded me an honorary fellowship for sustained contribution at the intersection of artistic practice, technology, and social transformation. It names something that had been true for a long time: the art and the advisory work have always been the same investigation. I am also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
I developed the TERRA Method™, a framework for reading the patterns that shape how organisations move through change, across that practice. The book is where it found its full form.
HOW THE WORK FEELS
People find their way here because they want someone who will tell them the truth, and who can be trusted with what that truth reveals.
The work requires directness. It also requires safety. What people find, when they arrive, is that they can be fully seen, without performance, without judgement, without the usual cost of visibility. They are not afraid to fail here. They are not afraid to fall.
That quality of safety is not softness. It is what makes the uncomfortable things possible.
CREDENTIALS
Chair — Mental Health First Aid England
One million people trained in mental health awareness across the UK.
Fellow — Royal Society of Arts
Honorary Fellow — Arts University Plymouth · November 2025
Awarded for sustained contribution at the intersection of artistic practice, technology, and social transformation.
Author — Leadership Legacy (Wiley, 2026)
Forbes Brazil
Named one of the world’s most important futurists.
Past stages
TEDx Amsterdam · Oxford University · Tate Modern · The Next Web · Mental Health First Aid England · House of Beautiful Business · Katapult Cloud · University of the Underground · Step Dubai
Recognition
Arts University Plymouth, 2025 · Computer Weekly Most Influential Women in Tech, 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021 · Buckminster Fuller Institute, 2021 · TED Talks Global Emerging Innovator, 2019 · Top 100 Black Leaders in Technology UK, 2018
WHAT THIS WORK IS NOT
People find their way here because they want someone who will tell them the truth, and who can be trusted with what that truth reveals.
The work requires directness. It also requires safety. What people find, when they arrive, is that they can be fully seen, without performance, without judgement, without the usual cost of visibility. They are not afraid to fail here. They are not afraid to fall.
That quality of safety is not softness. It is what makes the uncomfortable things possible.