I took the initiative to propose ASP in 2004, gathering, coordinating and leading the development of the emerging form in my capacity as a trustee of the New Academy of Business. As a director since day one, I’ve been constant and consistent in my advocacy for applying nature’s most basic principles to our thinking, our form and our actions.

It’s my hunch that by paying close attention to nature’s ways, we give ourselves the best chance of prospering within nature’s means.

In my experience with ASP to date, the challenge we face is less about grasping the nature of nature, and much more about overcoming conventions of thought based in the science of previous centuries.

I’m a facilitator and ‘opportunity maker’ who brings people together to achieve greater things.

My passion is facilitating change, shifting people’s World views so that there’ll be a World for the the next generation.  Dartmoor is a passion for me and my new business is to take people there to connect emotionally with nature, using John Muir philosophy and the Work that Reconnects (Joanna Macey’s work).

I’ve spent over 20 years as an Environmental Consultant working across Europe,  North America, New Zealand and South Africa, helping multinationals to become more environmentally aware, more sustainable in the true sense of the word, and to shift the way they approach the World.

I taught Sustainable Development and Environmental Management at the University of Bath, taking students and business people to Schumacher college to stretch their minds and enable a seismic shift in their thinking.

Currently I am a Director of the South West Learning for Sustainability Coalition and Company Secretary for the Tamar Energy Community, as well as running an Environmental law course for Exeter University.

We’re all driven by values. Understanding and communicating the values that motivate our perspectives, decisions and behaviours is key to achieving our visions and ideas.  The messages of sustainability, though appealing are often complex, which is a challenge I relish.  My role with ASP is to help unearth, embed and articulate the values of sustainability practitioners across different cultures and settings

I’ve been involved with ASP since the ‘Walk Your Talk’ gathering of 2005.  I’m an engineer, passionate about radical sustainability and I set myself up as the (world’s first!) Carbon Coach in the ’90’s to make the case for climate leadership personal. I stood for the Green Party in 2015 and have made my home 70% more carbon efficient than a normal house. Along the way, I’ve become a speaker, a visiting lecturer (Cambridge, Reading, City and Loughborough Universities) and an ambassador for Embercombe, Riversimple, the Global Good Awards, In Mind In Body, and ASP.  I host and produce radio show on Marlow FM and have even done ‘sustainable stand up comedy’!  At the moment, I’m working with Olympians who speak out
courageously on sustainability.

A world in which all enterprise serves society would be good wouldn’t it?  Purpose-led enterprise. That’s my current passion, drawing upon over 25 years’ experience in international corporate business and many years as an independent consultant gaining a deeper understanding of sustainability.

I work from the premise that sustainability is a quality of the outcome, rather than a process, a career, or a subject to be studied. I’m learning that it arises from increased consciousness and awareness.  It’s a way of living that emerges when we acknowledge what we care for and then learn how to nurture that.  Making it an ethical issue tends to alienate people and can be counter-productive. We all care for something – that’s what unites us. Some of us have a larger circle of care than others.

Learning how to live our lives – every aspect of them – in ways that nurture, rather than deplete and diminish, the things we care for, is the big challenge.