Insights
The conversation our work sits inside.
We chair, contribute to and write up the conversations that define the future of planning, employment, skills and stewardship. The work generates the thesis. The thesis shapes the work. This is where the two meet in public.
Featured · OBS2025
Future talent · Chaired by Tom Storey
We have a future talent problem.
36% of OBS2025 delegates named skilled labour shortage as their single biggest business challenge. The same room was optimistic about regional growth. Tom chaired the panel that took on the contradiction. Watch the session, download the impact report, and see how the talent thesis cascades from our case study work.
Read the insight, watch the session→What this insight contains
- Vimeo speaker reel from Blenheim Palace
- Full YouTube recording of the panel
- OBS2025 Impact Report (PDF download)
- Cascade map: case studies into thesis
- Three delegate stats from the report
- Cross-links to the four programmes
All insights
Three pieces. More on the way.
Future talent · Live
We have a future talent problem.
The session Tom chaired at the Oxfordshire Business Summit 2025. With Vimeo and YouTube embeds, the impact report PDF, and the cascade map from case study to thesis to public conversation.
Section 106 · Coming soon
Why S106 needs a platform, not a consultant.
The Section 106 system is structurally underbuilt. Reports go to councils, not communities. Commitments slip without a record. The argument for treating S106 delivery as infrastructure, not advisory work.
Place-based skills · Coming soon
Place-based skills planning in practice.
How the Oxford North + Careys model, named in the OBS2025 impact report, actually runs on the ground. Labour histograms, FE college anchoring, the brokerage layer, and what the dashboard looks like when it's working.
Coming next
More from the steering groups, the panels and the deeds.
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