After leaving Merton College Oxford I joined the Civil Service, then back to Oxford University where my work was published in 1974. A few years on I chose not to pursue the acquisition of 'wealth', 'power positions' & owning more 'stuff' by taking a 4-year degree in Fine Art and History of Art 1/1.

My artwork is in various public and private collections.

During the last 25 years, I've been teaching creative processes amidst increasing 'complexity' i.e., making qualitative adjustments in emerging & immerging realities.

An original contributor (2001) to the Presencing Institute 'project', collaborating with co-founders C. Otto Scharmer, Joseph Jaworski, and Silicon Valley's Santa Fe Inst. co-founder W. Brian Arthur.

Author & editor at Integral Review and an adviser/author at Integral Leadership Review.

Midwife to REOS Partners 1.0 London office I resigned as it acrimoniously split from Jaworski's firm Generon. I worked for over a year with a co-founder of Google's 'DeepMind,' created for perfecting general intelligence. I co-initiated a sustainability 'think tank' in S.France with the ex-head of sustainability at Royal Dutch Shell. My experience with all these teams was their operating in unrecognized toxicity.

'Deep Creativity' - is the fruit of my work since 1977 - i.e., how we can learn to operate from the same source/dynamic that Nature does, healing what is broken at all levels in both culture and nature.

I have worked with teams from The House of Commons being a 'personal adviser' at the Secretary of State level. My writing has brought connections to The White House and at a key historical moment, my words were used in an inaugural speech.

Mentoring work is exemplified by Basu (left,) a Nepalese street orphan from the age of about 5. He learned the 'action' of ethics under the compassionate care of 'uncle' Kailash Satyarthi (top panel) - both work freeing children, like those pictured, from the scourge of modern slavery and sex trafficking. Kailash was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2014.

A high point in my career was a note from Ilya Prigogine, Nobel Laureate 1977, Al Gore's chief climate adviser, saying I was on the right path in my understanding of 'increasing complexity' i.e., "the fine messes we have gotten us into."