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At the centre of every design challenge are human relationships

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 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.

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.

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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.

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.

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.

Matt is a lead designer and facilitator with strong experience in designing innovative, resilient services and facilitating change with clients such as the 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.

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Matthew McStravick

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.

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.

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.

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Zahra Davidson

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.

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.

Rebecca is a social designer and former youth worker. She led the service design practice at Girlguiding and has worked as a consultant for banks, startups and large charities who want to work in new ways.

 

She is prone to a gardening metaphor and spends most of her free time exploring her local Epping Forest and other wild green places.

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Rebecca Birch

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.

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.

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Stephanie’s experience spans launching ventures, startup operations & designing and implementing systems.

 

She enjoys enabling people, whether as a performance coach, or coaching rowing on the river.

Her background is Experimental Psychology (BA, MSc, U.o.Oxford), and when not working, she’s usually writing, thinking about new projects, or taking pictures.

Stephanie Hall

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.

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.

Ellie first discovered the art and power of connection as an ethnographic researcher and trend forecaster in the corporate sector.

 

Her current work blends systems thinking, innovation, facilitation, design, insight, ethnography & personal development.

She’s a trained coach, and is currently hosting the Deepr Learning Marathon in partnership with Enrol Yourself and the Hawkwood Centre for Future Thinking.

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Ellie Osborne

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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.

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.

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.

Emily Bazalgette

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.

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.

Gemma is a systems thinker expert, designer and coach.

 

With over 13 years supporting communities and organisations to make sense of complexity, she has spent the last 2 years leading and growing Systems Change capabilities within the children's and youth sector at The Children’s Society and at Barnardo's.

 

Prior to this worked in social impact, with the public sector, foundations, charities and NGOs, in the UK and globally.

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Gemma Drake

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

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