Providing teams with the tools, frameworks, and space to navigate change, restore purpose, expand possibility, and build adaptive and collaborative leadership capabilities.
Kieran has a rare and powerful gift: the ability to envision what’s possible and inspire others to believe in it too.
Join The Tinderbox, a dispatch on leading imaginative organisations, living imaginative lives, and loving imaginative places.
Creative Facilitation and Away Days
High-energy one-day or multi-day retreats to support strategy development, cross-departmental working, and team building and help teams move from firefighting to co-designing collaborative futures.
Future Leaders Development
Cohort development programmes that equip leaders with the creative capability, personal agency, and adaptive mindset to embrace complexity, navigate change, and expand possibility.
Keynotes and Performance Lectures
High-impact conference keynotes that combine storytelling, critique, and creative performance to challenge business-as-usual, sparking innovation and new ways of working.
Specialist Research Advisory
Expert REF diagnostic reviews, research and impact strategy development, research cultural audits, and research environment support
My Ethos
My practice combines thoughtful, creative facilitation with academic rigour and a DIY punk ethos. Having spent two decades in higher education leadership and professional services, I have a grounded understanding of complex organisations and a deep interest in imagination as a leadership capability.
My approach is inspired by the bottle kilns of Stoke-on-Trent and the salt-weathered steel coast of Teesside. As an LGBTQ+ man, husband, and father living on the North Yorkshire coast in Redcar, my work is rooted in the belief that imagination is a vital, practical act of world-building from the edges
I believe that when imagination is placed at the heart of leadership conversations, teams rediscover energy, clarity, and direction.
Recent Collaborations
Join The Tinderbox, my dispatch on leading imaginative organisations, living imaginative lives, and loving imaginative places and communities.