I don’t post much. Partly because I’ve been so busy, and partly because I wasn’t sure I had earned the right to say much yet. I’m still not entirely sure — but two years feels like a reasonable moment to…
Spring 2026
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Inverting Performance Management One of my favourite elements of working at Oxygen Conservation is how we deliver performance management. Now, before you recoil in your seat and wonder what this crazy HR person is thinking, bear with me because this…
Spring 2026
Culture gets worse as a company grows. It’s a universally accepted truth. Perhaps even part of the panacea of management truisms like Parkinson’s Law or Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs. But is it true? There’s an exception to every rule. A…
Spring 2026
Have you ever walked into a moment so alive, so arresting, that you felt time itself hold its breath? That’s what estate management gives you. Not just a job, not even just a calling, but a life lived to the…
Spring 2026
Europe has no shortage of environmental ambition. What it lacks is a delivery platform at institutional scale. That gap is now impossible to ignore. For the past eighteen months, conversations with institutional investors across Europe have converged on a single…
Winter 2026
This article was originally published in Knight Frank’s Rural Report. Read it here: https://www.knightfrank.co.uk/perspectives/publications/the-rural-report When we founded Oxygen Conservation, our mission was ambitious yet simple: to Scale Conservation. We set out to prove that nature could be investable, that by…
Winter 2026
During New York Climate Week, I had the privilege of joining the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change and The Schwarzenegger Climate Initiative for a discussion about the most wicked problem of our time. Being invited into a discussion with…
Winter 2026
There used to be a stark contrast between our Central Team and the talent we were able to attract to work directly on our estates. While our central roles were filled with industry-leading experts in investment, natural capital, marketing, and…
Winter 2026
Emily smiles across the room, walks across to Ell and asks, “How’s everything going with the Cult?” We’re asked similar questions often, but that’s ok. We’ve built a team with such a sense of purpose and together that, from the…
Winter 2026
At Oxygen Conservation, we approach reading with the same intensity and intentionality that we bring to rewilding landscapes and reshaping natural capital markets. Our mission to Scale Conservation extends beyond ecological restoration—it requires a recalibration of human capital. Developing leaders…
Winter 2026
There’s a pervasive sound echoing through the sustainability space, and it’s not the wail of a world in crisis—it’s the quiet yawn of disinterest. A long, tired, involuntary yawn from an audience worn down by guilt-laden messaging, hollow slogans, and…
Winter 2026
Oxygen Conservation is a high-performance environment. Many people think they want to work in that kind of space, but few truly understand what it takes. The demands, the pressure, the relentless drive to reinvent not just what you do, but…
Winter 2026