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Case Study: Rogue Robot immersive learning pilot

Rogue Robot is an immersive educational escape room that uses AI to promote and strengthen teamwork and critical thinking skills. A year-long project to develop a pilot learning experience was put through its paces by 50 students at Lewes College in Summer 2026.

Case Study: ARLLS youth leadership startup

The All Round Leadership Learning System (ARLLS) is a collaborative leadership development programme tailored to the needs of young people, that has been productised and launched to market to help generate revenue for the Beacon Changemakers scholarship charity.

Building a youth sport events system

This personal development project uses a nightly automation process to gather event data on youth cycle races from multiple locations into a single, mobile friendly, easy to use website for parents.

Case Study: Technology Leadership Mentoring

My journey mentoring a talented young web developer who had stepped into a technology management role in a small but ambitious organisation.

Case Study: The Portal – reimagining learning

Supporting a founder to bring their product vision to life, incorporating product definition, solution analysis, and selecting a development agency.

How community engagement platforms are moving in on the workplace learning market

Numerous research studies show that effective learning in organisations comes from three areas: experiential learning (real-world tasks) making up the bulk; social learning (interactions with others) following in second place; and structured, formal education in last place and making up just a small percentage of how we learn. This is why LMS products, traditionally focussed…
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Software End of Life Part 3: From Abandonment to Open Source Revival

In the world of software development, the topic of end-of-life scenarios often remains overlooked and there is a stark absence of guidance or case studies to help navigate such situations effectively. This series of blog posts aims to fill this gap, drawing from my own experiences across various companies. Software End of Life Part 1:…
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Software End of Life Part 2: Overcoming Tech Debt With a Complete Rebuild

In the world of software development, the topic of end-of-life scenarios often remains overlooked and there is a stark absence of guidance or case studies to help navigate such situations effectively. This series of blog posts aims to fill this gap, drawing from my own experiences across various companies. Software End of Life Part 1:…
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Software End of Life Part 1: The Journey to Closing Down a Legacy Product

In the world of software development, the topic of end-of-life scenarios often remains overlooked and there is a stark absence of guidance or case studies to help navigate such situations effectively. This series of blog posts aims to fill this gap, drawing from my own experiences across various companies. Software End of Life Part 1:…
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Our journey searching for the AI Team

My piece for Thrive’s AI newsletter about setting up a new AI team for the business and some of the innovations they’ll be working on through 2024. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/ai-made-me-do-our-journey-searching-ai-team-thrivelearning-k0bpe