Learning Partner
I work as a learning partner – helping teams get better at learning, adapting and working together.
It’s a flexible approach drawing on training and team coaching for purpose-led teams who want to put a dent in the world.
The aim isn’t just to make your teamwork more effective or enjoyable: it’s to help you have a greater impact.
If you’d like to bring some focus to your learning capability – drop me a line.
"Alex's style, consideration and emotional intelligence are hugely beneficial for strategy development, team building and coaching."
The learning advantage
When teams lose their ability to learn and adapt, ambitions get watered down, meetings get repetitive and people stop asking the hard questions.
It happens. But the
You don’t need all the answers in advance. You need a team that can keep learning and adapting.
develop their learning capacity as an ongoing source of advantage that helps them . – so they can stay alive to what’s happening, make sense of different perspectives, and respond as circumstances change.
The result is not a team with a perfect plan. It’s a team that is equipped with good relationships, clear alignment and ideas with real cut through.
If you’re working in ecosocial change and you’d like a partner to keep you at your creative edge, drop me a line. I want to help you have more impact in the world.
What's possible?
By focusing on your core capacity to learn, adapt my aim to help you have a greater impact.
We’ll create space to notice what is happening, reflect on experience, gain new skills, and turn insight into action.
The result is that learning becomes something you get really good at, not something delivered to you.
I’ll be alongside you as a facilitator and thinking partner who consistently takes you to your creative edge.
We’ll work on building strong relationships for effective teamwork and navigating change.
Over time you’ll develop the capability to keep moving when the path ahead isn’t clear.
I’ll support your team with learning experiences tailored to the precise needs of your team.
We’ll creating the conditions for the intelligence of the team and its wider system to emerge.
With collective intelligence working in your favour – more becomes possible.
I’ll support your team directly, and play a role in facilitating external facing events.
How it works
My aim is to come alongside your team as a trusted learning partner who helps you get the best from teamwork, strategy and communication.
We can start anywhere – with a diagnostic phase, a focused experience or even a book club. The possibilities are endless.
Over time, I might work with you through:
Learning experiences
Experiential sessions designed around real challenges, that help people learn by doing.
Creative facilitation
Bringing energy, participation and different viewpoints into important conversations.
Thinking partnership
Offering spaces for mentoring and dialogue on the challenges you are facing on strategy, impact and performance.
The work is shaped around your needs rather than delivered as a fixed programme. That’s what makes it interesting!
What do I bring?
I bring 25+ years experience of leading and supporting purpose-led teams – across a wide range of sectors and scales. Find out more about my approach and experience here.
Team connection events
I also offer shorter, standalone sessions — from an hour to a full day — for teams who want to reconnect and re-energise, or experience this work in a more focused way.
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60 minutes
In 60 minutes we can connect and revitalise people at a lunch & learn session, or help people unwind and enjoy each other’s company after work.
Either way we’ll have a fun and laughter-filled time together, while exploring what happens when we connect with more lightness and playulness.
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90 minutes
In 90 minutes we can get people connecting and collaborating in ways that build deeper trust and confidence.
We’ll explore what happens when we block each other’s ideas, insights and feelings — and what’s possible when we offer each other more attention and support.
This is an ideal session for an away day or conference.
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Half day
With more time, we can open up the space to explore behaviours that build stronger relationships at work.
We’ll also go deeper into the mindset that takes team performance to another level.
A half day works well for teams who want to reset, reconnect, and find a higher gear.
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Full day
A full day allows us to create an experience of collaboration at its best using techniques from applied improvisation.
We’ll also make space to explore knotty issues, and what feels most alive for the team.
A full day works well for away days, retreats, off sites, CPD and wider change initiatives.
"Alex has a unique way of getting the best out of people."
"The result was a stronger sense of team identity, purpose and values."
“Alex was a delight to work with and provided a rare mix of insight, creativity and humour.
The result was a stronger sense of team identity, purpose and values and the sessions were challenging and fun which helped us shift up a gear.”
Julian Munson
Head of Innovation, New Anglia
