Gemma has the rare and exquisite capacity to hold complexity and compassion together as a thread; listening and sensing into an organisation's ecosystem and understanding where the pivot points are for relational health. She knows how to listen to the unspoken qualities and invisible conversations and pull from them the words that need to be shared.
She has been part of our Directorial board for several years, offering her wit, wisdom and deep skills as an experienced design strategist and systems change specialist, with seventeen years' experience partnering with organisations on sustainability in the UK and internationally. Over the years she's helped navigate the team through some complex challenges with clarity and purpose, supporting each member to give expression to their values on a personal and organisational level and find ways through the 'stuckness' as it were. Every time we've been in these spaces, the learning has been so bountiful and the landing place exactly where we needed to find ourselves.
Gemma has one of those wonderful ways of being - both light and deep, wise and mischievous - that brings such energy and attention to the organisation, making board meetings truly delightful. She is a firm advocate for the wonder of this work, for enabling awe and amazement in our communities and for re-igniting the humanity in systems, structures, communities and individual across the learning landscape.