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Launching the Oxygen Accelerator at Invergeldie

Launching the Oxygen Accelerator at Invergeldie

We are delighted to announce that applications are now open for the Oxygen Accelerator, an innovative venture programme designed to support entrepreneurs building the rural businesses that will transform the future of conservation in the UK. Scaling Conservation across an…

Spring 2026

Two years in. Here’s what I’ve actually learnt.

Two years in. Here’s what I’ve actually learnt.

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

Oxygen Conservation Approach to Performance Management

Oxygen Conservation Approach to Performance Management

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

Does Culture Have to Get Worse?

Does Culture Have to Get Worse?

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

Estate Management: The Best Job in the World

Estate Management: The Best Job in the World

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

The Asset Behind the Asset Class

The Asset Behind the Asset Class

There is a problem at the heart of institutional natural capital investment that almost nobody talks about directly. It is not the policy environment, though that is complex. It is not the absence of institutional appetite, though that has taken…

Spring 2026