How we could work together
2-5 days on a brief
Give me a brief, or handful of questions, to sprint on. Fast turnaround, high impact.
1-3 days per week on a project
Strategy/creative support on a long term project.
"Delivered an extremely inspiring session to my team. This was crucial in dynamising the team for our own afternoon brainstorming." – Adrien Mollet, Head of Futures & Cultures, L’Oréal"Matt has that rare ability to be both strategic and super logical, but also intuitive and highly creative. And he's great to work with!" – Tom Farrand, co-founder of Swarm“Always great to work with. He led the strategy work on this [Dr. Martens] project brilliantly. He was instrumental to this being a great piece of work.” - Alan Bryant, Head of Strategy, Livity
Book me for rapid research, strategy, and ideas
Rapid research
My clients say: "super thorough and efficient in a short space of time - it’s been great fun working on it with you and seeing the magic of the methodology come to life", "thank you for your collaborative spirit, and willingness to work through ambiguity with us", "glad to spot a kindred spirit doing research in an agile MVP kinda way".#1 Three-day research sprint to define and identify underhyped tech for international development, for the Frontier Tech Hub.#2 Created an automated webscraping system to help the EdTech Hub's AI Observatory sift through curated sources with a focus on the Global South to signpost, translate, and synthesise what's happening in AI & Education in three stages of change: upgrade, disrupt and transform.
Strategy
Organisations often need a fresh outsider's perspective to see connections that lead to deeper insights and unexpected ideas. I bring 12 years experience of working across a huge variety of clients and projects. I typically work with teams to help answer questions like: "Where are we?", "Why are we here?", "Where could we be?", and "How could we get there?"#1 Worked with creative agency Livity to win a pitch for Dr. Martens. My role was then to lead on strategic thinking with the Head of Strategy and support a Junior Researcher over the three-month project to define the actions that Dr. Martens will take to authentically live its brand purpose.#2 Worked with two other consultants, and Ecover’s brand, marketing, and innovation teams, to identify a movement-in-the-making that the brand could get behind. Uncovered the key insight that informed strategy and led to the creation of Experiments In Waste.#3 Co-wrote and published a litepaper for RADAR; defining a theory of change and strategy for the decentralised community. Read here: Multiplayer Futures
Innovation
I work with AI to accelerate the prototyping of brand platforms, comms campaigns, product and service innovations, and new collaborative ventures. I love to jam on questions like "what if?" and "how might we?".#1 Worked with Swarm and Girl Effect to accelerate the prototyping of local media brands with potential to spread globally. Collaborated with creative networks in London, Lagos, Mumbai, and Jakarta, to pop-up an innovation sprint in each city with local creatives and innovators.#2 Created artefacts from the future to immerse workshop participants, from the UK Mission in Geneva, in future scenarios where AI meets diplomacy e.g. DiploBot – an AI agent designed to provide ethical oversight.