About Edward
Storyteller · Coach · FacilitatorAchieving lasting change on the outside by shifting the inner landscape.
Originally trained as an actor and a lawyer
I’ve spent more than twenty years helping leaders, teams and individuals navigate moments of growth, challenge and transformation. I’m endlessly curious about human behaviour, how we make sense of our world, how we work together and how real change actually happens.
As the son of a diplomat, I spent my childhood travelling the world. Living in the USSR at the height of the Cold War made separation, fear and the threat of conflict very real. Those experiences left me with a drive to understand how people might prevent conflict escalating, get along better and find the connection between us.
I began a combined degree in Acting and Law, focusing on contracts, family law and indigenous rights. Acting won out. I travelled the world and became a snowboard instructor, English teacher and yoga instructor, spent time in a First Nations community in Canada, worked in indigenous rights activism and permaculture, studied landscape design and became a mentor for youth at risk.
A two-week visit to the UK changed my life. Training as a mediator led to working with young people in East London and, in 2004, my journey facilitating groups began. Since then I have worked with police, healthcare professionals and corporate teams, facilitated newly formed executive committees, supported banks through the financial crisis, fostered culture change and helped fashion brands agree environmental standards.
Real change requires both inner evolution and outer practice. Whether coaching individuals, teams or organisations, I focus on inner resourcefulness and new ways of working together.
If that is the sort of world you’d be interested in being part of, I’d love to hear from you.
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