Index // selected engagements
A look inside the projects that made the most of the instrument.
Card-level summaries are public; the full case studies, with named stakeholders and specifics, are shown on request. Drop me a note and I'll send access over.
Full case studies
Coutts๐ On requestA six-month research-based pilot for UHNW wealth aggregation. Four behavioural archetypes โ not the four the kick-off hypothesised โ and a multi-year portfolio strategy now in delivery across Coutts and the wider NatWest Group.read โPlayStation Store๐ On requestA three-day strategic summit and 11 follow-on workshops, routing 500 people across the business. Nine transformational initiatives are still ribboning through four years on.read โOAG๐ On requestA six-week reframing of BI strategy. The data-marketplace direction the leadership team chose has aged well โ the demand for clean structured data to feed ML systems is now arriving as predicted.read โGlenmorangie๐ On requestThe full colleague experience mapped in seven weeks โ three cultures, four mindsets, fourteen chapters. The frameworks are still in use; the lead stakeholder, now Head of HR at the parent company, has asked about rerunning the work at parent-company scale.read โ
Other projects
Facilitation StudioLive โAn AI-augmented publishing practice. A fortnightly newsletter and podcast on facilitation craft, with subscriber audiences just over 300 on each, converting unprompted into commissioned client work.visit โBraeOpen case studyA phenological observation app for garden dabblers, voiced by a folkloric hillside spirit. Designed end to end and built with AI carrying the code โ a working test of the thesis that strategic design matters more under AI, not less.read โ
Further work
NatWest DecarbonisationSixteen fragmented decarbonisation tools aligned into a coherent customer-facing portfolio, including the DBA award-winning Carbon Planner. The conversation repositioned from compliance to business resilience.
Facebook community adminsFacebook's first interview-based research hub for community admins, with a two-year service roadmap drawn from 40+ admin interviews across countries and group types.
PlayStation NetAdsA five-ability, four-horizon product strategy for PlayStation's network advertising business, co-created in a two-day leadership workshop.
Google ยท FreeleticsGermany's top Health & Wellbeing Google Action of 2019 โ the deepest Google Action ever built โ and the codified conversational design process that came out of it.
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