Native New Yorker living it up in Northern England. I am the Founder of the Thinking Digital Conference in Newcastle, the Bright Ideas Gathering in Durham as well as TEDxManchester, TEDxNewcastle & TEDxLiverpool.

In short I love doing research about people doing innovative things across technology, digital media, sciences, arts, economics, entrepreneurship, social enterprise and many other fields.

I then present our research via one of our ‘thought leadership’ style conferences. I work with speakers to make sure their talks are a big success. My coaching practice focuses primarily on the talk content. How do we take your remarkable achievements, work or personal story and make it both easy to understand & highly impactful.

I am also the former David Goldman Visiting Professor of Innovation & Enterprise at Newcastle University Business School, a Trustee for the Sage Gateshead Music Centre. I helped create the Bulletproof Coffee brand on a flight to San Francisco. Proud Dad to a daughter entering her early adult years.