Empowering regional leaders to drive innovation and local growth

With a background in national and local government, I am a champion of innovation-led prosperity and a catalyst for place innovation, smarter spending, and collaborative leadership in the UK and beyond.

Your single point of entry into a constellation of insight and expertise

My expertise draws on intelligence from more than 30 globally recognised innovation clusters and over 100 UK innovation locations, direct experience of partnering with hundreds of pioneering place leaders across the UK, and an extensive network of expert partners.

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Career highlights

  • Leading strategy development and business planning for a national innovation agency, leading the organisation through a turbulent period including special measures, a merger, and the pandemic, to deliver ambitious revenue targets, and secure a new grant funding agreement worth £156 million.

  • Catalysing innovation-led local growth with analysis and practical resources for leaders looking to seed, sustain or scale innovation ecosystems in their region.

  • Founding the most significant public innovation procurement initiative of our generation, turning £400bn of public procurement into a catalyst for mission-driven innovation in central and local government.

  • Shaping national policy on health and social care integration, data sharing, and housing delivery from within the heart of UK government.

  • Establishing the What Works Network to promote evidence-based policy making.

  • Sparking a national debate on the funding of local service with the ‘prophetic’ Barnet Graph of Doom.

Get in touch

I am available for speaking opportunities and other collaborations.

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