He joined Bryden Wood in 1995 and has been instrumental in leading the company’s expansion from disruptive start-up to 300+ people across 9 offices worldwide..

Specifically, I have had meetings with two of the organisations I partner with: my local Watermill Theatre, which, as well as producing truly magical theatre, has an outreach scheme that touches hundreds of lives, and the World Land Trust, which is actively protecting habitat and species diversity around the world.With both organisations, we are looking at ways to work together to magnify our individual impact..

I see academics, businesses, and organisations of people focusing on the problems that face us, not just out of good intent but out of facing cold, hard realities.This is resulting in money, the fuel of the world economy, being slowly but steadily diverted from the old economy to a new one.We are starting to invest in a changing world.

Leaders and regimes will come and go, but this matrix of positive intent and action is what will truly drive the next 50 years..The third reason for hope came to me in maybe the most unexpected place: a two-hour stand in the toilet on a train with five others, due to huge overcrowding.

Of course, there was griping, anger, and frustration about the situation.

There was also a humble reflection that our plight was nothing like those stuck in conflict and humanitarian disasters.The operatives who are there will be working much more safely, with greater productivity.

They are likely to be part of multi-skilled gangs, trained with the know-how to assemble a whole range of components, as opposed to each individual having a single trade.These teams will be able to build a hospital one day, a school the next, and a set of apartments the day after.

Each project will use the same, standardised components.We hope that giving people the skills to perform a range of tasks, versus one repetitive task, will also lead to greater job satisfaction and productivity, as it has in the manufacturing industry..