Four people. Fifteen years. One craft: designing for human connection.

Our small team packs a big punch. Between us we've launched and landed successful startups, created impactful digital services, facilitated widespread culture shifts and high-level internal learning processes for clients big and small. We train others in our approach and have taught at the world's best design schools.

Holly May Mahoney
Holly May Mahoney

Holly is a service designer and Design Thinking advocate with a diverse practice spanning the private and public sectors. She has taught Design Thinking at Stanford's d.school, service design at the Royal College of Art and is a design coach for the startups at Bethnal Green Ventures. She was the Design Lead at David Kester & Associates and led design coaching and training at the Design Thinkers Academy, London. Holly leads on best practice at Deepr.

Matthew McStravick
Matthew McStravick

Matt is a lead designer and facilitator with strong experience in designing innovative, resilient services and facilitating change with clients such as the Red Cross, Google and Barnardo's. He designed, founded and led Echo, Sharing Economy UK and was Head of Interaction and Culture Design at CAST. Matt is an accredited coach and has supported national charities at C-suite level in developing strategies and cultures.

Zahra Davidson
Zahra Davidson

Zahra's background spans service design, sustainability and visual communication. She is Co-founder and Director of Enrol Yourself, a social business redesigning lifelong learning through the power of peer groups. She is most fascinated by the intersection between design and learning, by participatory group experiences and the role of learning in reaching for sustainability. She is a trained coach and co-organiser of the #LXDmeetup.

Emily Bazalgette
Emily Bazalgette

Emily helps purpose-driven people and teams to be intentional about how they work and develop, through organisational design, strategy, facilitation and coaching. She works with charities and social enterprises, funders and governments, supporting them to organise around collective purpose. Emily brings nearly 15 years of experience in supporting people to collaborate in nourishing ways, working towards equitable, adaptive, regenerative organisations.

We are equal human beings, collaborating to make the world a little bit better, every time we work together.

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