Current Work
People sometimes ask me, ‘What Do You Actually DO?’.
I would say that I’m a slightly odd combination of freelancer, consultant and entrepreneur. Ultimately, I work for myself. I have started things (both companies and schemes), I have worked on numerous teams, I connect people everyday. I enjoy helping people by making valuable introductions. To coin a phrase, I have a portfolio career!
How do I make money? People and organisations either retain me monthly, pay me to do a special project (this could last several months), or ask me to a lead a one-off event (hosting a half-day workshop, running a connecting masterclass or speaking at or hosting an event).
Hopefully a more interesting question is ‘What are you DOING at the moment?’
Here are some of the organisations which I’m currently working with;
Make Your Mark with a Tenner lends tends of thousands of school pupils a tenner, and challenges them to see what they can achieve in one month. Enterprise UK partner with me to deliver this national scheme, which is now in its third year.
Helping to host the Clean and Cool Mission; Taking 20 entrepreneurs out to San Francisco in February 2010
Working with TomTom Nation, helping young people reinvent their future through NESTA’s iDiscover project.
Plings, led by Substance is signposting thousands of places to go and things to do for young people across Britain.
The Flow Foundation is an international, grassroots movement that aims to change education profoundly.
Sport England have launched an innovation fund and I have been helping them to support and promote the applicants.
Gemin-i is a charity which, through it’s site Raki.ki connects over 1500 schools around the world, to work on projects together.
Speednetworking; Increasingly I am being hired to do this for organisations, and recent clients have included Unltd, the foundation for social entrepreneurs. I’ve also been facilitating some new Fellows nights for the RSA and continue to host events with Adam Street Private Members Club. I’m going to be hosting more ‘internal’ speednetworking sessions for large organisations in the year to come.
I write regular columns for Growing Business magazine.
If you would like to talk about working together, I’d love to hear from you.
