About me
I do community stuff
I’m a community consultant, who has been working on communities for the last 10 years. For the last 5 years, communities have been my full-time job.
I have been a communities lead across large organisations, set-up and led community programmes, and redesigned communities to improve power relations between stakeholders.
I’m currently running an amazing open-source community for the world’s best design system at Government Digital Service.
Blog Posts
Read my latest musings on community, collaboration, learning and working in the public sector.
Work with me
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My Journey
Before working in government, I was a teacher for 10 years, where I ran a cross UK community for teachers to share learning resources. I also set-up numerous communities of practice programmes at colleges and universities I taught at.
My masters thesis was on Communities of Practice and I have been obsessed with them ever since. My knowledge of learning enables me to set up environments where knowledge sharing happens effectively.
I also consider myself an expert on developing training and love facilitating. Delivering education and developing curriculums for so long ensured I had plenty of practice at it.
Other stuff about me
I live in Yorkshire and am proudly northern. I founded GovCamp North, which is a public-sector unconference aiming to improve public-sector collaboration in the North of England.
I love travel and being outdoors. I mostly travel to places where I love the food. So I’ve travelled quite a lot of Asia and been to Italy several times.
I love Japanese culture, especially the history around the Edo Period. I have been reading manga for years, One Piece is my favourite.
I’m passionate about work that contributes positively to society. I am not a public servant by accident, I want to do work that makes a difference.