REFLECTIONS
You Can Rule a Life You Have Never Once Stood In
Three countries, three systems. Sovereign debt, health financing, housing. None of them look alike on paper. But run your finger under all three, and you find the same seam: somebody signs, somebody else lives with what was signed. I wrote about what that seam actually is, and why regeneration as a design principle is the only thing that can close it.
How Much of Transformation is About Finding the Right Intervention?
How much of transformation is about finding the right intervention, and how much is about learning to see the system differently? A reflection on context, structure, and why Community Economy Development isn't an African solution to an African problem.
Distance ･ Reflections On Economy, Consequences, and Regeneration
Distance is a contemplation on regenerative economy, consequence, and the social practice of economy. Moving between lived experience in South African townships and broader questions of economic development, the essay challenges conventional assumptions about money, investment, and public policy. It proposes that regeneration emerges whenever systems keep decisions connected to the lives they affect.
I Exchanged Distance for Proximity
I still love strategy. Only, I just think you cannot build a good one from a distance. What I learned about strategy while doing fieldwork.
The Beginning of Community Economy
Bloemfontein. August 2025. Namibia Township. 53 people (15-68 yrs) gathered to share what matters for a good life in their community. When people asked what to expect, we said honestly, we don't know.
There comes a moment when what has always worked quietly stops working. That's where we meet.
Founders, leaders, investors, municipalities, or restless changemakers. Different responsibilities and different realities. But they all feel the same urgency for change. Our work might take the form of a long-term advisory relationship, a strategic engagement, a conversation over tea, or a keynote that changes the perspective in the room. The format depends on your situation and the work we can do together.
Offer
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Strategic and project-based advisory for organizations, governments, investors, and municipalities navigating complexity, transition, and long-term change.
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Private or shared conversations about the future economy we are building. Exploring the regenerative economy in practice, Community Economy, leadership, transformation, and the realities of fieldwork.
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Speaking on my favorites: humanity in the economy, community economy development, community capital, economies in transition, the forces that shape them, and what leadership looks like when the ground is shifting.
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