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.
Creating solutions for success, gathering and leading the right people to make them a reality. Currently Innovation & Transformation Lead at 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.
Consider the full picture when understanding problems and crafting solutions.
Involve the right people and processes so that time or money aren't wasted.
Make decisions based on scientific evidence.
Leverage technology for success.
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.
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.
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).
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.