Experienced Innovation Leader

Designer • Maker • Doer

Creating solutions for success, gathering and leading the right people to make them a reality. Currently Innovation & Transformation Lead at Save the Children.

Featured Project

Wonderbooks
for Save the Children

Save the Children

New Product Development for Save the Children – responding to a brief to create a commercial product that deeply engages new audiences with the cause and brand of the organisation. The solution is a children's book subscription to help parents in the UK engage their children in issues they see in the news and have great conversations about the issues children face around the world.

Holistic

Consider the full picture when understanding problems and crafting solutions.

Lean

Involve the right people and processes so that time or money aren't wasted.

Informed

Make decisions based on scientific evidence.

Tech-first

Leverage technology for success.

Lockdown Birthdays
with Beano

BEANO BEANO Save the Children

As the UK entered lockdown in March 2020, as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, children were set to miss out on celebrating their birthday in the usual ways. Within a few weeks, a partnership had been agreed and birthday packs including a personalised card from a Beano character were being sent out in exchange for a small donation to Save the Children's work supporting kids facing the fallout of the pandemic in the UK and around the world.

Side Projects

criw.cymru

Children's clothing company & do good movement

Sweatshirts for kids that do a little good in the world. Developing a national movement of kids who support a series of important causes through uniquely designed sweatshirts - this project started as an experiment to launch a niche venture with a zero budget.

Secret Santa App

Draw your secret santa gift exchange... in secret

The problem with Secret Santa gift exchanges is it takes one person to do the draw, who then doesn't get to join in with the surprise! This web app solves the problem by using an algorithm that generates matches and emails each participant individually. This project is a learning excercise in full stack web development, focusing on MVC (Laravel), Git (Bitbucket), CSS Frameworks (Bootstrap) and PaaS (Heroku).

Natwivity

The greatest story every told in 140 characters

Launched in 2010, this was the first ever Twitter Nativity play - as told through the tweets and voices of all the well-known characters. It attracted 10,000 followers and was featured in the Telegraph, BBC Radio 4 and local radio.

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