Welcome!

Oikos exists to stimulate and support radical innovation among leaders and their organisations in service of a sustainable future.

Oikos – the Greek word at the root of ‘eco’ in both economics and ecology – is a uniquely integrative enterprise, bringing together:-

  • sustainability strategies & sensibilities – from 18 years’ experience in the fields of sustainability, environmental change, holistic health and corporate social responsibility: and
  • business change and leadership development expertise – from 13 years’ working as a change consultant and coach at senior levels across the private, public and not-for-profit sectors.
Oikos also integrates:-
  • the global – i.e. through an ability to consider the macro-environment, multiple stakeholders and complex, cross-cutting themes at a conceptual level; and
  • the personal – i.e. via expertise that enables transformational work with individuals, building the leadership capacities required – including emotional and spiritual intelligence - to face and process the immense challenges of our time.

Ultimately, the challenge of sustainable development requires an ‘expansion of consciousness’ in leaders everywhere, whether in formal roles or not – and then the courage to act from that expanded place. Oikos is focused on delivering – and modelling - precisely that.

“It seems to me that what you do is help people get a felt sense of the connection between different ways of being and different ideas - and hence what might need to change for a "sustainable" future. They often seem to experience what you do as a demonstration of "bravery" that they could emulate, a sort of liberation, opening to a new set of possibilities - in which the head takes its place alongside a more emotional knowing.”

Dr Gill Coleman, Bath University Management School

Watch "Tall, Dark, Handsome and No.1" (12mins)

Footage taken from a half-day session with practising managers at Bath University Management School.

"Stunning!"

The Guardian

Tall, Dark, Handsome & No.1 – and the financial crisis of October 2008:
PDF Download.

Barack Obama: letter to a change leader: PDF Download.

“When you open your soul and bring your whole heart into the room, it changes the structure of the room.”

Joe Jaworski, author, consultant and former Shell executive