Speaking
I would love to talk about regenerative organisational design and facilitation, chronic illness or grief tending for your event or podcast.
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Your fantastic Lunch and Learn taught me more about organisational design in ten minutes than ten years of looking at operating models
Duncan Fogg, Commercial Lead, Shift
Upcoming
2024
Panel: A conversation on 22nd October 2024 with the wonderful Poonam Dhuffer, hosted by New Ways, about the transformative powers (and tensions) of creating spaces for grief and joy in organisations. Watch the recording here or read Sarah Tulej’s takeaways from the conversation here.
Podcast: Helena Clayton and I had a wide-ranging conversation about grief on her Leading from Love podcast. We talked about grief tending, chronic illness grief, grief in organisational design and hospicing old systems. You can listen wherever you listen to podcasts (e.g. Apple Podcasts) and access the transcript here.
Podcast: Daniel Moore interviewed me about GriefSick on his Post Exertional Mayonnaise podcast. We talked about the origins of GriefSick, how “chronically ill people live in the territory of erosion” (Francis Weller), witnessing collective grief, grief tending, and the transformative potential of grief. You can listen wherever you listen to podcasts (e.g. Apple Podcasts) or watch on YouTube.
2023
Panel: I talked about what we can learn from chronic illness-informed organising at the School of System Change’s Constellating Change series, Session 2: Structures and Rhythms. Read the transcript here and watch the recording here (my introductory talk is at 14:15 and I talk about the role of grief work in organisational change at 58:44). The School of Systems Change’s summary of the conversation is here.
Interview: Read my interview with Rachel Katz: “No one ever said to me, “this is grief". I talked about chronic illness, grief, cyclical living, crip time, disabled wisdom and organisational design.
Interview: Rachel also interviewed me for an article in Vox about navigating chronic illness. I talked about grief, rage, community and witnessing in chronic illness — all of the reasons I started GriefSick.
2022
Talk: “The Three Heresies of Org Design”, This is HCD (a global design community and producers of the #1 human-centred design podcast). Watch the recording.
2021
Talk: I spoke about complexity-informed organisational design at the launch event of Patterns for Change, a people-centred, equitable and human approach to organisational development, created by Shift, NPC, NCVO and IVAR (I led the first half of the project). Read the blog post and watch the video.
Talk: “Asynchronous work, inclusion and organisational beliefs”, SCVO DigiShift. Watch the recording or read the short write-up.
2020
Talk: “Organisational sense-making”, States of Change Learning Festival. Watch the recording.
Talk: “How to prototype your operating model”, Service Design in Government.
Interview: Read my interview with Lauren Currie on professional visibility, freelancing and chronic illness.
2019
Talk: “Designing High-Performing teams”, Service Design Fringe Festival.
Talk: “How to prototype your operating model”, Service Design Fringe Festival.
Panel: Panel member (representing NOBL), “Emerging dynamics in design thinking”, Design Thinking Exchange (hosted by Google), London Design Festival.
2015
Talk: “Evaluating social impact products” (representing FutureGov), Nesta’s Impact Measurement in Impact Investing event, read the slides.