BODY OF WORK
One Body of Work
More than thirty years.
One continuing question.
How do we live in alignment with ourselves, each other and the world around us?
Looking back, the thread runs through everything: creative leadership, strategy, storytelling, mentoring, speaking, facilitation, books, frameworks and art.
What appeared to be many different kinds of work was always part of the same inquiry:
What matters?
How do we choose?
And how do those choices shape our lives, workplaces and communities?
This page brings the work together.
Follow the thread that speaks to you. Each one leads into the same body of thought.
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Philosophy · Know Yourself · Know What Matters · Live What Matters · Work in the World · Stories · Creative Practice
Philosophy
Affection gives change its humanity.
Everything begins with The Affection Economy: a values-led philosophy for how we live, lead and grow together.
It asks us to care about more than what we achieve. It asks how we achieve it, what our choices create and whether the growth we pursue is something we can actually live with.
The Affection Advantage brings that philosophy into practice through care, clarity, courage and meaningful action.
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Knowing Yourself
Self-knowledge is where alignment begins.
Before we can decide what matters, we need space to recognise ourselves beneath the roles, responsibilities and expectations we carry.
Know Yourself and the Six Themes explore the landscape of a whole life: The Roots, The Heart, The Lineage, The Flame, The Self and The Sacred.
When we understand ourselves more deeply, we begin to trust what we know.
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Know What Matters
Values give us something to steer by.
Values shape what we notice, choose, protect and repeat.
The Values Compass helps us name what matters, understand why it matters and recognise where our values are—or are not—being expressed in everyday life.
They become more than words. They become a way of finding direction.
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Live What Matters
Values become real through practice.
Knowing what matters is the beginning. Alignment is created through the choices and actions that follow.
The Five Acts—Clarity, Care, Courage, Consistency and Contribution—offer a rhythm for turning values into everyday practice.
The Alignment Note provides a quieter weekly opportunity to pause, reflect and return to what matters.
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The Work in the World
Different rooms. The same human work.
I bring this body of work into conversations, workshops, leadership rooms, workplaces and communities.
Sometimes that means speaking to shift how people see change. Sometimes it means facilitating a team through values, tension or culture. Sometimes it is a Circle, an Intensive or an ongoing strategic partnership.
Across every format, we explore what is shaping mindset, energy and culture—and how values can become clearer choices, stronger leadership and change people can genuinely carry.
Ways to work together
Speaking
Workshops and facilitation
Alignment Circle
Alignment Intensive
Alignment Partnership
Strategic advice
Storymaker
The living conversation.
Books hold ideas in one moment. Storymaker allows them to keep moving.
Through essays, observations and stories, I continue exploring what it means to know ourselves, live our values and create a life we can recognise as our own.
She Who Holds the Map carries this inquiry through women, matriarchs, memory, lineage and the maps we draw and pass between generations.
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Creative Practice
Some ideas need to be seen and felt.
Story, illustration and design have always been part of how I understand the world.
Studio Jet is where ideas take visual and physical form—through publishing, creative practice, illustration and design.
Creativity is not separate from the work. It is one of the ways the work is discovered, expressed and shared.
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Follow the Thread
Where would you like to begin?
I want to understand the philosophy.
Begin with The Affection Economy.
I want to reconnect with myself.
Begin with Know Yourself.
I want to bring this work into a workplace or community.
Explore working with Jet.
I want to read, reflect and follow the ideas.
Enter through Storymaker.