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Phoebe Tickell is a scientist and the Founder of Moral Imaginations, pioneering systemic change through moral imagination. She has trained over 2,000 people across 75+ organisations and introduced more-than-human perspectives into UK government policy for the first time. Her award-winning work with Camden Council demonstrates practical implementation at scale. She is an Executive Fellow at the Harvard Business School and one of 500 Global Impact Fellows at the Edmund Hillary Institute.

Long bio

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Phoebe Tickell is a scientist, systems thinker, and the Founder of Moral Imaginations, a non-profit dedicated to catalysing just, regenerative futures by igniting humankind's moral imagination. She has worked alongside the world’s leading authorities on sustainability and trained senior leaders at Fortune 500 companies, helping them to imagine what a better future looks like and giving them the confidence to make it happen.

She has developed the Moral Imagination approach, adopted by organisations, communities and change leaders worldwide to shift mindsets and drive deep, systemic change. It pioneers cutting-edge practices that bridge inner and outer transformation, introducing radical approaches into the heart of government, institutions and companies.

She has worked with over 75 organisations and trained over 2,000 people in the Moral Imagination methodology since 2021, including groundbreaking work that introduced, for the first time, a more-than-human perspective into UK government policy-making creating the first functional more-than-human citizens assembly. In 2022, Moral Imaginations partnered with Camden Council in an award-winning collaboration to embed imagination into the council's leadership, policy and practice. She trained 30 Imagination Activists who reached 300 and then 3000 of the Council’s staff, and Camden’s local residents.

Phoebe coined the term "Imagination Activist" to describe a new kind of activist who focuses on creating new possibilities through imagination and a transformative worldview, rather than fighting against existing systems. Through her thought leadership and practical implementation, Phoebe has influenced many others to take up an imagination activist approach, including large foundations who have diverted their funds towards supporting ‘imagination infrastructure’.

Phoebe is an Executive Fellow at Harvard Business School and Edmund Hillary Fellow for Global Impact. She is a Scientific Advisor to the Inner Development Goals and holds a degree in Biological Natural Sciences from Cambridge University.

Testimonials

“Thanks again for opening our minds to the art of the possible. Still using this in my strategy sessions and loving it.”

Mike Gosselin, Chief Underwriting Officer, UK and Lloyd's, AXA XL

”Phoebe Tickell closed Sustain, EcoVadis annual conference, with a keynote that genuinely shifted the room. Her framing of the Imagination Gap gave our CPO audience a fresh way of thinking about why systemic change is so hard – and what it takes to move beyond it. Thought-provoking, well-crafted, and highly recommended.”

Cécile Dorvault, VP Field Marketing & Demand Generation at EcoVadis

“I interviewed Phoebe as a thought leader for my documentary on the future of business, and found her to be insightful, authentic and engaging. She has an impressive ability to understand complex environments, and significant experience in helping individuals and organisations to work successfully together. I would recommend her to anyone working in a high performance culture and/or facing multi-stakeholder challenges”.

**Richard Threlfall, Global Head of Infrastructure, Government and Healthcare, KPMG International

”**Phoebe Tickell is truly a top-tier speaker—engaging, thought-provoking, and utterly inspiring!”