• Fieldwork across Africa, Southeast Asia, Latin America and Europe.
• Creative director, awarded for speculative and concept work.
• Fifteen years running discovery research inside organizations.

I founded Whispers & Giants on a single conviction. The problems that matter arrive without a brief. Someone has to go find out what is actually happening before anyone can decide what to do. My work explores, makes sense and reframes. Over my career I have built a design practice that works at multiple scales. I read the same system at both ends, from how people actually manage their lives to the planetary infrastructures those lives run on.

The categories below cover the requests I have been entrusted with since 2010.

Discovery research

You are early. The question is still forming, no brief exists, and committing to a direction now would be expensive. I work upstream of R&D and innovation, long in the field, establishing what is shifting before anyone has written it down.

Futurist in Residence

You need a future-oriented practice inside the organization rather than a report delivered to it. I embed for six to eighteen months, run fieldwork and foresight from within, and build the internal capacity to keep going after I leave.

Reframing and reinvention

Your models no longer match the terrain you operate in. We rebuild the frame you use to read your situation, then produce tracks worth exploring.

Anticipation

You need the next five to ten years at enough resolution to act on. Signals, scenarios, and the risks and openings they expose.

Field research and ethnography

You need to understand the people your system depends on, in the places they use it. I run immersive fieldwork with users, operators, institutions and the informal actors nobody scheduled, then bring it back in a form your teams can work with.

Visioning and narrative

You need a vision your organization can repeat without cringing. Built collaboratively, tested against reality, written to survive contact with the people who have to deliver it.

World building

A future rendered with enough detail to stand inside. Artefacts, environments, interfaces, images and the internal rules that keep a world consistent under scrutiny.

Creative direction

You need someone to run a creative process from framing to production, holding the concept steady across teams, formats and craft decisions.

Conferences, panels, moderation, facilitation

You need someone to lead your event, retreat or workshop and give an audience storytelling, insight and orientation toward the future.

Teaching

Design-led foresight, creative futures and critical research methods. Taught as full courses in universities and as intensives inside organizations.

Strategic design coaching

You want to level up your own practice and take on more complex problems. One to one, over a defined period.