Stuart Thomas

Background

About Stuart Thomas

I help organisations tell their narratives and make sense of how they are operating; how they are implementing their strategies and running their programmes. I help them look not just at the mechanics of the organisation - the policies and practices on the ‘surface’, but also at what is going on ‘below the surface’; in the recursive patterns of behaviour, the shared unwritten rules, the drivers and motivations, and the collective emotional patterns and relationships of the people within and between the organisation and its partners. Increasingly, I work with organisations in the climate and environment space, who, themselves, try to work or think about transformative and systems change. Working within this space, I believe that the disruption we need is fundamentally behavioural, rather than technological; that we need to make changes to the current social and cultural systems that incentivise and perpetuate the ongoing damage to our environment. Recent clients include WFP, Wellcome Trust, and EIT Climate-KIC. I have been carrying out research and evaluation for over 15 years, I have a MA (Distinction) in International Development, a BSc (First Class) Psychology, and a Foundation in Group Analysis from the Institute of Group Analysis.