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Agent presence ……………………………………………………………………………… GUY PICKFORD AKA AGENT GUY Guy's multi-disciplinary art tackles green issues facing individuals and societies as a whole. As part of his desire to facilitate positive change Guy built a 21ft yurt that has been used as a workshop and exhibition space at different environmental events across the UK since 2004. ……………………………………………………………………………… Hannah Ruth aka agent umgololo Hannah is a recovering physicist who is aiming to energise the world through sustainable energy. ……………………………………………………………………………… James Dakin aka Agent Bird Man James Dakin is the founder of Teaching Freedom, a project dedicated to transforming the way we educate our young children and teach our teachers to teach. It has taken him 3 years of continuous hard work, learning to and being willing to ask for help and risk showing vulnerability, a deep seated optimism, bare faced cheek and a willingness to experience the dynamic weight loss properties of living on your edge and facing your deepest fears, to grow the project to the stage where it is beginning to gain international interest and recognition. ……………………………………………………………………………… Jason Allcorn aka Agent Orange Boy Co-founding Director WEmake www.wemake.co.uk Jason is always seeking to make better stuff and make stuff better. Jason is an inspiring creative force – a skilled designer and maker he is as happy crafting commissions as creating and delivering front-end concept and ideation workshops. Born 2 August 1969 ……………………………………………………………………………… Joanna Moulds aka Agent Jo Jo Moulds has 10 years’ experience as a magazine journalist and spent three years as the Marketing & PR Manager for the award-winning British environmental company, Remarkable. Jo spent her early 20s working at Redwood Publishing and John Brown Publishing (now John Brown Citrus Publishing). At 26, she left the UK to become a scuba diving instructor and spent the Next two and a half years working around the world on marine conservation projects. She continued to write throughout her travels and while at Remarkable and specialises in environmental and conservation stories. Jo set up Appleyard Media Ltd in 2005 alongside Ross Appleyard, ex Sky News correspondent, and now combines marketing & PR work with freelance writing and assisting with film contracts. ……………………………………………………………………………… Joel Levack aka Agent Ops I’m a young events producer, but I’ve clocked up a few miles. Before I moved to London I ran a bar up North and worked as an artist painting pictures and renting studio space in New York for a while. I wanted to expand from working with only my paintings, to working with other artists, so when I moved to London, I teamed up with an old school friend and opened an art gallery without a fixed venue. We did a bunch of shows and exhibition around London. That morphed into an art focused events company and now my brother runs it day to day and we call it Lima Projects. I love making ambitious events happen, and have come on board with Agents of Awareness to develop a seasonal event program for next year. I want to run Special, Major and Mega events that really make a difference. I want to reach small and huge audiences and become one of the best in my game. I want to save the planet with some like-minded Agents. And I think we can. Roger and Out. ……………………………………………………………………………… Jonathan Essex aka Agent Wombat Jonathan campaigns locally for sustainability and global justice, to help redefine and love living well with people and planet. His background is as a Chartered Environmentalist and Civil Engineer and he has a wide appreciation of global issues through working in Bangladesh, Vietnam and Sudan. He is now focusing on local sustainability action and green economics in the UK. Jonathan works on One Planet Living with BioRegional, consults on development and sustainability and teaches with the Open University on environmental decision-making. Jonathan co-created Sustainable Redhill and Living Well WOW and is now taking the Change the Dream symposium to activists. Jonathan is interested in initiatives that inspire, enable and connect practical action locally, then replicate. He believes the vision of sustainability links to cutting our carbon/consumption and cries out for a spiritual input. He is convinced that action-focus and mind-shifts are crucial to tipping public opinion and creating cultural change. He believes in the giraffe club. Individually we CAN make a difference but only together IS another world possible. Thankfully, sustainability is an idea whose time has come. ……………………………………………………………………………… Julia Forster aka Agent Pookie Julia Forster works as a Thought Pilot, guiding creative processes with intuition, imagination and inspiration. She's also a writer of novels and non-fiction and is currently completing a book called Muses: Revealing The Nature of Inspiration, which will be published in May 2007. This agent works mainly with individuals and organisations involved in sustainable development and in her free time she likes to go undercover and dance salsa with strangers! ……………………………………………………………………………… Lucy Mulloy aka Agent L Agent L went to the United World College of the Atlantic where she headed their Amnesty International group. She graduated in PPE from Oxford before spending a year in Cuba, where she initiated a scholarship scheme for Cuban students to study at the United World Colleges. She was awarded the Dean’s Fellowship, to attend the New York University Grad Film School. Her films have been shown internationally she was nominated for the Student Academy Award. She works by finding young talent, developing raw charisma and building confidence in her actors. Agent L desires to ensure that her characters are as complex and distinct as the people she knows in real life. ……………………………………………………………………………… Luke Nicholson aka Agent Tiger I am a design strategist with specific expertise in information design, advertising, branding, and digital media. After six years in conventional advertising, I discovered a passion for sustainable design: design that produces deep, widespread positive effects both for people and for the environment. My greatest interest is in joining up people, techniques, and knowledge systems from diverse disciplines. From time to time I behave like a public speaker, a graphic designer, a computer programmer, a thinker, a writer, an entrepreneur or a brand strategist although what I really do is join together different – and complementary – approaches to problem solving. Since 2003, I have spent most of my time as Creative Director of More Associates, developing technologies, products and services for producing massive energy-conservation across populations through easy, fun behaviour change. Before that I co-founded one of the first ethical communications agencies, where I was Creative Director for three years, working widely on values-driven communications across sectors. I love seeing the world made better through the use of good design. I continue to work – on very special projects – as a freelance designer and strategist. ……………………………………………………………………………… Matt Boysons aka Agent Yurtopia Yurtmaker, Builder, Photographer. I was born and still live in Brighton E.Sussex. I studied and worked as a photographer throughout the 1980's but gave it up because of the restrictions that work placed on my need to be creative. I've worked either full or part time as a builder since I was a teenager, a trade that has allowed me the freedom to travel and work abroad over the past 20 years as well as to support myself when needed. Since my late teens I have travelled widely, mainly through Europe, North America, Turkey, Northern India and Nepal and continue to do so at all possible opportunities. For the past 6 years I have been making Yurts as part of a group called Future Roots from our workshops in Stanmer Park just outside Brighton. Future Roots is part of a co-operative of environmentally aware growers and artisans called Stanmer Organics. As Yurtmakers we work in as low impact and environmentally aware way as possible and consider that this care and attention is essential for the individuality of our structures. I am currently setting up my own Yurt rental business called 'Yurtopia' and will be able to offer over 2000 sq feet of canvased shelter by the spring of 2007. ……………………………………………………………………………… Mirium Turner aka Agent Mix Miriam Turner is Innovations Project Co-ordinator for InterfaceFLOR in Europe a division of US based Interface Inc., a global leader in the manufacture of environmentally responsible floor coverings. After reading Biological Sciences (Hons Ecology) at Edinburgh University, Miriam went on to complete an MProf in Leadership for Sustainable Development, run by Forum for the Future, the leading sustainability charity in the UK. The fast track programme is formed of an interactive blend of work-based experience, development of leadership skills, intensive tuition, and personal reflection. Miriam is particularly interested in the business contribution to furthering sustainable development, and working abroad in countries such as Paraguay, Mexico, Ecuador, and India has developed her understanding of the global dimensions to sustainable change. Miriam is currently working towards an accreditation from PBAS Partnership Brokers Accreditation Scheme). This scheme focuses on skills to smooth the complex relationships between different sectors as they work together on sustainability e.g. business and NGO partnerships. In addition to this, Miriam has had a number of media work experience placements with The Independent Newspaper, the BBC, Red Pepper Magazine and Alastair Sawday Publishing, which have convinced her of the vital role communication must play if we are to shift to a sustainable future. In her current role, Miriam work brokers relationships between InterfaceFLOR and external organisations to catalyse the development of innovative, sustainable products for the21st century. ……………………………………………………………………………… Neil Crofts aka Agent Neil Neil is an author, writer, coach, facilitator, consultant and leader. His purpose is to "heal the world through authenticity". Neil has written three books on authenticity and maintains a roster of web sites on the subject as well as sending weekly authentic inspiration messages to 3000 subscribers and running monthly authentic inspiration evenings in London and Bristol. Neil works full time on his personal authentic evolution, helping others with their own evolution as well as helping those who want to find their own way of inspiring authenticity in others to define it. In the past Neil has raced cars, sold advertising, run companies and been a senior executive in a multinational corporation. It was while working out his leadership approach to responsibility for 100 strategists that Neil uncovered his gift for coaching and how unpopular this approach to leadership can be in a corporate environment. Neil believes that evolution is the meaning of life and the only way to overcome the environmental and social challenges that face us. Neil lives near Bath with his wife and their two children. Neil is also a passionate cyclist. For more see www.authentictransformation.co.uk ……………………………………………………………………………… Nelson Wootton aka Agent Napoleon Solo Nelson Wootton is a firm believer in cooperative working principles and collaborative software development, advocating the use of collective buying power to enable organisations greater leverage when developing bespoke software. In September 2002, these principles led Nelson to perform a management buyout from Poptel, to found Poptel Technology Limited. A company, which has continued to go from strength to strength, Poptel Technology has firmly established itself as a leading UK supplier of accessible websites, working with international and national organisations, charities and trade unions. Nelson was recently a featured panelist on "Collaborate or Stagnate" at the Manchester Digital AGM discussing entrepreneurship and digital collaboration. He is also a visiting lecturer at Thames Valley University, London College of Music, and Leeds College of Music. ……………………………………………………………………………… NICK HART-WILLIAMS AKA AGENTS INCOGNITO Nick was born in Wales, but raised in Canada and California. His working life has covered journalism, film distribution and He also spent 5 years inside C4 as Commissioning Editor for Docs, where he initiated Fragile Earth and True Stories. Mid-90s BTC presents an annual conference in May and frequent Change the Dream workshops. Nick is also involved with The He lives near Bath with his partner Maggie Lyons. ……………………………………………………………………………… Nick Jankel-Elliot aka Agent Unity C Nick is a social entrepreneur, leadership coach, strategy and innovation consultant, organisational anthropologist and systems designer. He runs Elemental Worldwide LLP, a social enterprise creating scaleable tools and experiences for rapid human development, raising emotional intelligence, leadership capabilities and consciousness. He also runs weareOne, a regular event using music, art and film to connect people with their higher potential. Previously he ran an innovation consultancy, working with brand leaders from Orange and PlayStation to Unilever and Diageo on strategies for disruptive breakthroughs and sustainable growth. He has recently worked with organisations such as the NHS, The Co-op Group, The Young Foundation and the British Heart Foundation on leadership and social innovation challenges. He currently lectures on social innovation, ethical leadership and values-based strategy and is a Trustee of a major international development NGO working in sexual health and human rights. He has lectured on various corporate and academic MBA programmes (from British Airways to Oxford Business School), at the Royal College of Art as well as appearing in print and on TV on matters relating to innovation. He holds degrees in Medicine and in Philosophy. ……………………………………………………………………………… Nico Andreas Heller aka Agent Nicodemos Nico Andreas Heller is the managing director of mutualground, a group of companies that specialises in the development and application of participation-centric policy design, implementation and communication methodologies and technologies. ……………………………………………………………………………… Oliver Dudok van Heel aka Agent Olive Agent Olive has infiltrated the corporate world for the past 12 years, initially to study its behaviour and understand what drives it, in partnership with Agent D. Little, after which he went into underground training at the INSEAD base hidden in the French countryside. He left Having spent 4 fascinating years with SustainAbility, as a consultant, strategist and facilitator, Agent Olive grew disillusioned with corporate responsibility’s inability to successfully change the system under which business prioritises the profit motive above all else. He considered leading an armed takeover to overthrow current structures, but soon realised that his wife and 3 children would not appreciate him spending time in prison and instead opted for an alternative approach which he is now developing both within and outside Agents of Awareness. He set up Living Values Ltd., which offers sustainability consultancy services to the corporate world, but whose stealth objective is to achieve the change that is urgently needed through a grassroots approach, by tapping into the individual values and personal – as opposed to corporate – responsibility of the armies of employees and managers who run the engine that is the modern corporation. ……………………………………………………………………………… Robbie Hoque aka Agent Hoque I formally set my sights on the film director's chair. After camera assisting on "Enduring Love", changed direction. Spells in parliament working for an MP, and in media relations at The Forster Company followed. Producing a proposal for a youth web project at the crime reduction charity Crime Concern led me to spend much of this year devising ideas for civil society web projects, alongside devoting some research time to Campaign Against the Arms Trade. I’m now volunteering with the New Economics Foundation’s Democracy and Participation team where I have been invited to produce a video-cast on ecological debt for NEF’s website. Interests include local currencies, monetary reform, and collaborative web tools. One idea that has stuck this year: freedom defined as "access to a multiplicity of networks". ……………………………………………………………………………… Rohan Gunatillake aka Agent Slow Lightning Most comfortable in a paradox, Rohan is a part-time public sector management consultant, a full-time insight meditator and the occasional director of the world’s fastest growing online city network dedicated to slower urban living. ……………………………………………………………………………… Sam Duby aka Agent Doc Sam has just finished a PhD in Renewable Energies. His research is aimed specifically at the development of low-cost electricity generation solutions. His primary focus is on the application of these technologies in developing countries. He is the author of several papers in this field and has presented at a number of international conferences. His passion for all things mechanical and renewable comes from a lifetime of building machines, including his 'Power Drum', a very adaptable and rugged kinetic energy electricity generator for use in rural areas without access to other sources of electricity. ……………………………………………………………………………… Samantha De Siena aka AgentC With a degree in psychology, Samantha played a key role in the growth of The Mind Gym (www.themindgym.com) from the seed of an exciting new idea to an internationally successful business. She co-created many of the Mind Gym courses and a Train the Trainer Academy, for potential coaches to learn more about content and facilitation style. As a Mind Gym Coach Samantha has delivered hundreds of courses on a broad range of subjects including negotiation, influencing, conflict resolution, motivation, creating your own luck, collaborative solutions and creativity. She has coached people across all levels in a broad diversity of organisations including BBC, Virgin, Deutsche Bank, Rothschild and Fresh Minds. As an independent consultant, she has advised & generated ideas on strategy, communications and PR for a number of groups and individuals whose values she shares. Samantha is passionate about music, film and documentary and has worked on the production of two independent films, most recently Antonio’s Breakfast, BAFTA 2006, (www.antoniosbreakfast.com). In 2006 Samantha decided to take some of her own medicine, use those coaching skills to explore her own core values and motivations and create her ideal role in life. As a result she started Agents of Awareness. ……………………………………………………………………………… Sarah Johnson aka Agent Captain Future Co-founding Director WEmake www.wemake.co.uk Sarah J believes that design holds enormous potential to enable social and environmental change. Sarah facilitates, encourages and completes positive, friendly, sustainable design actions through her work as lecturer, designer and event organiser. born 30 July 1971 ……………………………………………………………………………… Sayyeda Salam aka Agent One Voice Sayyeda joined Leaders' Quest (www.leadersquest.org) at the beginning of 2006. Prior to this, Sayyeda spent three months in New York working for OneVoice, a grassroots non-partisan Israeli-Palestinian conflict resolution organisation, where she was co-organising events in the USA, UK and Canada and working on their International Education Programme. She has now set up and is running the OneVoice London office. She graduated from St Catharine’s College, Cambridge in 2003 with a Bachelor of Arts in History. She then went on to work in Kenya and Tanzania as a graduate researcher for the British Institute in Eastern Africa, researching and designing an exhibit on the history of the city centre of Dar es Salaam for the National Museum of Tanzania. On her return she completed her Master of Arts with distinction in African History from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, going back to Tanzania for the summer of 2005 to research for her Master’s dissertation on the effects of urbanisation on racial tensions between Africans and South Asians in Dar es Salaam. ……………………………………………………………………………… Sebastian Bailey aka Agent Psycho Seb spends his day wondering about wondering. A psychologist by background, he started working life shrinking heads in businesses. Treatments included creativity, overcoming procrastination, getting into flow and stuff that makes people go whoo-hooo (well maybe only a bit and in a good way). He then co-founded The Mind Gym, whose goal is to change the way the world thinks. He has a wife with a bump and a 2 year old daughter, which puts environmental issues into even sharper contrast. He also can't stand peppers and thinks Daniel Craig is an excellent Bond. ……………………………………………………………………………… Stephen Shashoua aka Agent Oskar Born in Canada, of Iraqi-Jewish descent, Stephen Shashoua has been involved in communal and voluntary organisations all his life. He is currently the Project Director for The Three Faiths Forum, working on "Trialogue" and relations between Muslims, Christians, and Jews. Since completing degrees in Journalism, Anthropology, teaching, and English Literature, he has focused on the educational sector, working internationally as an advisor and coordinator to both young and mature, disabled and impoverished students of diverse cultures. Working with The Three Faiths Forum, he has developed and is continuously developing various programs such as mentoring schemes and dialogue and conflict-resolution seminars for young people, text-based educational programs for schools and universities, forming various local groups, and is the Co-Founder of "Iraq in Common", a project for the under 35-year-olds of Iraqi descent of different faiths committed to bringing unity to Iraq's population in the UK and around the world. ……………………………………………………………………………… Susie Wheeldon aka Agent Wise Child Susie is self employed, running www.thisisnotmy.co.uk, a website that promotes sustainable living, working as an extra on various films, editing legal information for Lloyd’s, working as an educator for the charity Global Action Plan and plotting amazing events and challenges with Agents of Awareness. Before age and environmental concerns caught up with her she spent quite a while traveling, (teaching in Uganda, pottering about in the Himalayas, dodging the Khmer Rouge etc) before doing a history and politics degree at Warwick. To her parents joy she then started her career serving cream teas in a Devonshire donkey sanctuary. When she accidentally ended up advising Lloyd’s underwriters on international insurance law they were relieved – before she left - twice - for more rogue wandering, to learn to snowboard, work at the Transport Select Committee, cast ‘bearded men and naked people’ for the Davinci Code and make a documentary about Santo Diame. They haven’t yet given up hope though as she still works there sometimes whilst doing all sorts of things she is far more passionate about. In her spare time she wanders, sees friends, attempts DIY, sings in a band, practices Parkour and trains for the Marathon des Sables in March. ……………………………………………………………………………… Tom Savage aka Agent Savage Once upon a time I wanted to be a lawyer, or a banker, or a fund manager… quite simply, I wanted to make a lot of money. Today, I still believe that money is a powerful tool and I am still fascinated by business. However, my priorities have shifted dramatically. No-one has ever achieved happiness or become deeply fulfilled by making money – in fact, often the opposite is the case. One of my favourite quotes is, ‘If you want to know what God thinks about money, just look at the people he gave it to’. Save for anomalies like Warren Buffett, this rings all too true. I believe that the private sector is better placed to make positive change in the world than any other, yet is still furthest away from doing so. I believe that social enterprise is a pioneering example of a new wave of methodologies that can help make this change. After winning a scholarship to study social enterprise at Oxford University, I have embarked upon a somewhat peripatetic career as a social entrepreneur. I started Blue Ventures (www.blueventures.org), an award-winning marine conservation organisation, Travelroots (www.travelroots.com) a web-based responsible travel company and more recently Tip the Planet (www.tiptheplanet.com), a Green Wiki focused on consolidating the myriad of tips that can benefit the planet. I also helped out together Social Enteprise Day as part of Enterprise Week on the 16th November, working with Enteprise Insight and the Cabinet Office. As part of the government's campaign to encourage young people to get involved in enterprise, I also recently co-founded the Make Your Mark with a Tenner challenge (www.makeyourmarkwithatenner.org). ……………………………………………………………………………… |