The DecisionLab team

Nathaniel Whitestone

Nathaniel Whitestone has been designing and facilitating working, learning and residential communities since 1996. He developed his expertise in supporting personal transformation and creating high-quality relationships over three years of training with shamans in the American Southwest and another two years of apprenticeship with pioneering psychologists Drs C.G. and Kathlyn Hendricks. He has served as steering-committee member of the Ecovillage Network of the Americas and Merchants of Vision Editor of the World Business Academy. He currently practices the art of relationship with his wife and son in Uckfield, England, and serves others through his life-coaching, facilitation and consulting businesses Integrity Unlimited and DecisionLab, and through his varied work with IT4D nonprofit Aptivate.

Martin Grimshaw

Martin is passionate about sustainability, participation and the joy of useful action. He has a BSc Physics but you’d never notice, a PGdip Environmental Assessment & Management, a career which has encompassed public service management, making people dance, flogging t-shirts around Europe on rock’n'roll tours – and commissioning, organising, delivering events and training focused on manifesting a healthier, fairer, greener world. He loves creating spaces, inspiring attitudinal shift and putting the fun into fundamental change.

Louis Loizou

Louis started working in the family business as a child and trained as a Specialist Speech and Drama Teacher. From a background in business, teaching, training, personal growth, leadership and facilitating groups he has walked a line between commerce and personal development in activities ranging from Sales and Management Training for Corporations to empowering private individuals, allowing the development of unique training programmes and styles. His voluntary activities have included leading three choirs, supporting community development in West Africa, local and national tenant action and community broadcasting. He is currently developing a new series of programmes for exploring the hidden potential of inner and outer spaces which will be called Dragonfly.

Alan Jackson

With a background in Computer Science, International Development and a former Paragliding Instructor, Alan specialises in facilitating teams in the IT sector. In his day to day work Alan uses Participatory Action Research, the Agile methodologies, Open Space, BarCamps and Formal Consensus decision making. He and his partner are also the proud parents of a beautiful baby girl.

Julian Howell

Julian is a graphic designer with many years experience working with environmental, health education and arts organisations. He has a strong desire for good communication and for sustainable living. Climate change is a massive challenge that we have to deal with as best we can – and key to this is that people can work together openly, honestly and realistically. Julian has been training with Nathaniel White and John Buck as a facilitator and is enjoying working in new ways with the Decision Lab team. Julian lives in Brighton and has a BA in Graphic Design, an MA in Narrative Illustration and Editorial Design, and has completed the Permaculture Design Course.