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What I offer

Creative & Story Consultancy.

Creative & Story Consultancy.

When the Story's not working, nothing else will. A specialist eye can bring focus and clarity.

I've worked on a wide range of projects across industries. From brand narrative of Start ups and Scale ups to Stage & Immersive, Film & TV Concepts and Scripts.

I love a challenge.

Narrative & Experience Designer

Narrative & Experience Designer

At the heart of any major creative project you need someone who understands both the art and the business of getting it made. I try to bring both lenses to any project.

I've created and writing experiences of all kinds, from Horror Attractions, to Family LBE's and original Immersive productions.

Learning Experience Design

Learning Experience Design

Not every keynote needs to be data and slides. Sometimes you need something different.

Stories underpins everything. They're more compelling and funnier(!) than info.

I've spent my career addressing rooms of people, and my talks focus on Story, how we create the self, Creativity & Parenting.

Live Events Director

Live Events Director

'I'm very expensive'

More than 10,000 of directing live events with an Olivier and an Offie Award collected along the way.

With 100 stage productions behind me, I only take on 1 or 2 productions a year now, but it's my first love, and I still take on a small number of interesting projects.

Narrative & Experience Designer

Narrative & Experience Designer

At the heart of any major creative project you need someone who understands both the art and the business of getting it made. I try to bring both lenses to any project.

I've created and writing experiences of all kinds, from Horror Attractions, to Family LBE's and original Immersive productions.

Experiences

TEDx Speaker

TEDx Speaker

It was a wonderful experience delivery my first TEDx at the invitation of Loughborough University.

The talk was called - Containing Multitudes: Writing the Self.

The Docks Product - Leadership

The Docks Product - Leadership

A fully staged Immersive Theatre project which was simultaneously the major Annual Leadership project for Convex Insurance in 2025, with 500 participants over 2 weeks.

It was like nothing anyone had seen before, and led to a small follow up project on Communication for the 125 senior leaders

Olivier Award for Rotterdam

Olivier Award for Rotterdam

A career highlight was winning the Olivier for Outstanding Achievement for the world premiere of Rotterdam by Jon Brittain.

One of the pinnacles of my directing career.

Offie Award as Director of Operation Mincemeat

Offie Award as Director of Operation Mincemeat

Winner of Best Production of a Musical in 2022. I directed the show off-West End, running for more than 100 performances in London through 2021-22.

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  • i.e. Mentor
  • Creative Director
  • Experience Designer
  • Narrative Designer
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  • i.e. Education
  • Learning and development
  • Entertainment
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Career experience

21-30 years

Regions
  • Europe, 
  • Middle East, 
  • North America (east coast), 
  • North America (west coast)
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Skills (/)
  • i.e. Research
  • i.e. Branding
  • Creative Strategy
  • Collaborative Leadership
  • Scriptwriting
  • Ideation
  • Facilitation
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  • i.e. Digital nomad
  • i.e. Ex-Google
  • Brand story teller
  • Storytelling
  • people and culture
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