Work with Nigel
Complex systems, made actionable
Four levels of engagement. from a free diagnostic to commissioned delivery. Choose the lightest path that improves the decision in front of you.
1 · Connect free
See the shape of the problem
When the difficulty is still fog, start here. No purchase required.
Available free
Systems Opportunity Diagnostic
Clarify the problem and get a recommended next step, free, in about three minutes.
Available free
Collective Social Learning questionnaire
Test fit for a Brown-style CSL workshop and whether your focus question is ready, or needs development first.
Available free
Project Readiness Checklist
Twenty practical checks before commissioning deeper work: definition, stakeholders, evidence, risk, and next step.
Available free
Strategic Decision Brief template
Structure the decision question, options, criteria, and evidence for boards, partners, or a session.
Request access
Negawatt Opportunity Calculator
Explore energy-productivity framing for your context. Join the list for release.
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Strategic Decision Brief template
Structure a decision question, options, and evidence needs. Request the draft template.
2 · Buy
Toolkits and digital packs
For teams ready to structure the problem themselves. Purchase opens as each pack is finalised. join early access meanwhile.
Early access
Strategic Opportunity Blueprint
Map the opportunity, constraints, stakeholders, and decision criteria before you commit capital or commission a larger engagement.
Early access
Project Definition Workbook
Define scope, success measures, evidence needs, and delivery boundaries so boards and partners can decide with a shared picture.
Early access
Ecological Project Readiness Toolkit
Assess readiness for ecological function, measurement, and delivery risk before capital or operational commitment.
Early access
Negawatt Feasibility Toolkit
Structure energy-productivity and conservation-value questions for early feasibility thinking. before models harden into fiction.
Early access
Decision and Investment Readiness Pack
Prepare decision packages for boards and capital stakeholders with clear questions, options, and evidence needs.
3 · Book
Collaborative advisory
Sessions and sprints packaged around outcomes. not hourly rates.
90 minutes
Diagnostic Advisory Session
A focused 90-minute working session to lock the decision question, test assumptions, and name the highest-leverage next move.
Two to four weeks
Strategy and Systems Sprint
A two-to-four-week engagement to diagnose the system, convene the right people, and deliver a prioritised action plan with an executive presentation.
Half-day or full-day
Board or Leadership Workshop
A facilitated workshop built around one agreed decision question, with pre-reading, facilitation, and an action memorandum.
60-90 minutes + written note
Focus Question Development
Craft and pressure-test the focus question that will carry a Collective Social Learning process, or any multi-stakeholder decision, before you convene the room.
Half-day to multi-day, by design
Collective Social Learning workshop
A facilitated Collective Social Learning (CSL) process after Valerie A. Brown, bringing individual, community, specialised, organisational, and holistic knowledges through ideals, facts, ideas, and action. Delivered in person or virtually.
4 · Engage
Bespoke and retained work
Application-led. Diagnosis first; proposal when there is fit.
Bespoke
Bespoke engagements
Application-led work for larger strategic, ecological, energy-system, commercial, or governance challenges. Diagnosis first; value-based proposal when there is fit.
Existing clients
Recurring advisory
Ongoing systems review, steering participation, founder or board advisory, and private research briefings for existing clients and warm relationships.
Not sure where to start?
Most people begin with the free diagnostic. If you already know you need a conversation, book a session or send a brief.