Strategist | Innovator | Entrepreneur | Connector | Policy Maker
Empowering you to achieve good
About Dominic
Dominic is an adviser, social entrepreneur and impact investing pioneer with a background in politics, innovative finance and setting up charities and social enterprises. He is passionate about societal and economic impact – helping senior leaders and organisations achieve good. He works around the world with leaders in multinationals, governments and the social sector and his expertise includes:
In his personal life he is a husband and father, and his hobbies include reading autobiographies, spending time with friends and watching most sports, especially football and Formula One.
Expertise
Dominic's work focuses on four areas:
Creating cross sector collaborations and global partnerships
Many of today’s complex societal challenges require governments, businesses and – often – the social sector to provide their unique skills, experience and insights to solve them. There is increasing necessity for cross-sector collaborations.
Dominic has built many cross-sector collaborations and enabled global partnerships. His experience includes:
Developing viable social impact investing strategies and deals
Social impact investing is an exciting and rapidly growing industry powered by investors who are determined to generate social and environmental impact as well as financial returns. This is taking place all over the world, and across all asset classes.
Dominic has unique insights of social impact investing from policy creation through to advising on deals then went on to build an across many asset classes in impact investing. He has helped high net worth individuals, institutional investors, foundations and governments create strategies, products and partnerships that have raised over £100m. He sits on the Advisory Board of Big Society Capital. Dominic's work has included:
Helping large organisations to be platforms for innovation and impact
Often start-ups struggle to get to scale. Large organisations are often disrupted by new organisations. Collaboration between start-ups and large corporates is key for fostering innovation. Collaboration should benefit both sides, helping corporates to enter and create new markets, and start-ups to develop their products, and to scale. Complications commonly arise from a clash of cultures: agile versus static work processes, different work ethics and different levels of appetite for risk.
Corporates and large charities and social enterprises are increasingly applying this methodology in social innovation; both creating products and services and working with smaller organisations that both tackle poverty and creates business opportunity.
Dominic has unique experiences across corporate innovation and corporate social innovation including:
Public service reform and policy making
In a time of global uncertainty and increasing inequality, changes to public services are required at an even greater pace, and the opportunity is presented to do things better. Citizens need more people centred public services, commissioners are seeking greater value for money and social enterprises and charities are prepared to deliver.
At the same time, policy making needs to be done, not through the lens of Whitehall, Holyrood, Cardiff Bay or Stormont but through the lenses of communities, civil society and small and growing businesses.
Dominic has exceptional knowledge of both. His experience includes:
Dominic posts on Medium on areas of interest and expertise. Here are some of his recent posts.