Who are nowhere

Our companies

nowhere is currently a community of six companies. Each company specialises in a different yet complementary lever for releasing our creative potential.

  • limitednowhere
  • beyondnowhere
  • enternowhere
  • nowherenz
  • nowherefoundation
  • nowheregroup

Our people

nowhere is made up of core teams of creative-catalysts, a global network of specialist practitioners, and a wider group of strategic partners. Key council members include:

  • Dr Sue Abbotson
  • Alison Bell
  • Matt Clarke
  • Marc Cornwell
  • Tracy Draffan
  • David Hansen
  • Liam Hinshelwood
  • Terry Ingham
  • Chris Jacob
  • Jane James
  • Boz Kay
  • Andy Kitt
  • Andrew Leith
  • Mike Malig
  • Jenny Mackewn
  • Ed Rowland
  • Andrea Turner
  • Nic Turner
  • Susie Turner
  • Dr Nick Udall
  • Victoria Udall

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limited nowhere

How do you catalyse profound strategic and cultural breakthrough...?

limitednowhere specialises in building cultures of innovation. We help global businesses discover profound insights into their unique purpose and strategic differentiators. We use these insights as the creative wellspring from which to transform some of the deeper cultural patterns and accelerate the formation and delivery of breakthrough strategies and innovations.

Our work releases the creative and innovative potential of complex organisations while inspiring their people to find greater purpose and meaning in their lives and their work.

beyond nowhere

How do you switch yourself on and go beyond?

Feeling energetic about your contribution to life and work is fundamental to happiness, well-being and performance. Unfortunately we settle for mediocrity far too readily, usually born from an absence of knowing how to achieve the dream of living and working purposefully.

beyondnowhere is dedicated to liberating the energy, engagement and performance of leaders, teams and organisations. Our unique approach creates the insight and attention needed to release human energy and leverage talent. This simultaneously decreases stress and increases personal and collective power in exponential ways.

enter nowhere

How can design help awaken the creative power of organisations...?

Lying at the heart of every business is a code. This code is the life force of a business - its soul, its 'anima', its animating principle. When this code is illuminated and set free it transforms organisational memory, reminding everyone of what they stand for in the world, what they can achieve together and the difference they can make.

Over the last ten years enternowhere has developed a unique de-sign practice that enables us to co-create cultural signs, symbols and artefacts that awaken the creative power of organisations, bringing to life an organisation's purpose, values, brand, vision, strategy...

Our work is an integral and complementary part of the wider nowherepractice, enabling us to work with some of the world's largest companies and brands.

nowhere nz

How do you catalyse breakthrough performance...?

nowherenz is the southern-most member of the nowheregroup of companies. We catalyse discovery, achievement and growth through coaching executives, working with teams and designing and facilitating larger organisational events across Asia Pacific. The focus of our work is to enhance performance through breakthrough leadership, teamwork, creativity and innovation, as well as strategic and cultural alignment.

nowherefoundation

How can we release the creative potential of society...?

The nowherefoundation is a not-for-profit company dedicated to releasing the creative potential of society through the four key pillars of education, health, business and governance.

Since its inception, the foundation has worked co-creatively with strategic partners and clients in both the public and private sectors, working across a diverse range of social programmes and projects.

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nowhere group

How can we hold the space for nowhere to grow and transform...?

The nowheregroup has historically offered strategic, developmental and systems support to the wider nowhere community and its emerging practice. It also invests in our various Quests and hosts nowhere's academy.

Learn more about nowhere's academy

Alison Bell

Alison leads Communications and Media in nowhere. She is taking great delight in working closely with the medium of film, both internally with colleagues and with nowhere clients. Working as a member of the Brand and Web team, her long-held passion for communications is fuelling a journey of re-discovery - exploring the power of storytelling and finding ways of opening up a living practice for others to experience and share.

With an MA (Cantab) degree in Modern Languages , Alison initially trained in Marketing and Commercial development. She first specialised in e-Marketing, online communications - campaigns, communities and services - and Database Marketing. Then later focused on Brand identity and evolution consultancy.

Whilst setting up a joint IT venture in New York in 1999, an extraordinary series of encounters led Alison to a set of consciousness teachings that she is still exploring and now has the privilege of passing on to others.

She left a career role at Microsoft UK in 2002 and set off into the unknown - acquiring new skills in psychotherapy, systemic constellations and mentoring (young people and business owners) which she integrated into her consulting practice. Alison has supported innovation and start-up projects, led brand transformation in large organisations and SMEs, and worked on breakthrough programmes in social and commercial arenas.

Alison began working with nowhere in 2005 and joined as an employee in 2007.

She lives in North Hertfordshire, England, with her partner Neil, and daughter Arianna.

Andrea Turner

Andrea is the finance manager of all five nowhere Companies.

Andrea started work in 1993 as an accounts and payroll clerk at a Chartered Accountants in Derby . She worked and trained there for seven years. She then went onto work for an international Logistics Company as Management accountant and then took a similar role at a Training Company two years later.

Andrea Joined nowhere in 2005 as Finance Manager which was a new role in the company at that time due to expansion of the business. Working in nowhere has introduced her to Tai Chi, meditation and number of other techniques and wisdoms to become focused and to understand and embrace the creative process.

Andrea lives in Derby, England with her husband Ian and two young children, Lucas and Mattie.

Andrew Leith

Andrew is an associate of enternowhere. While his background was in engineering and industrial design, he has worked in fields as diverse as virtual set design for television and systems planning.

Formerly a creative director of media agency Deepend, Andrew has many years experience in developing consumer engagement strategies, and communication packages for a wide range of companies and brands. He is passionate about developing a mastery of visual and experiential storytelling techniques - that inspire teams and individuals to see information from a new perspective.

He lives in London with his wife Aase and his two young children.

Andy Kitt

Andy is a creative-catalyst in beyondnowhere, whose work centres upon liberating the creative potential of individuals, teams and leadership communities.

After completing a BSc in Behavioural Science and an MSc in Applied Psychology Andy's early career was as an Occupational Psychologist. After spending 4 years in Strategic Development he became fascinated in the interplay between individual and organisational purpose. In his career he has spent a decade heading learning and organisational development functions in some of the UK's largest retail and financial organisations.

Andy joined beyondnowhere in 2004 and spends his time exploring such questions as:

  • What are the conditions that create purposeful, fulfilling and stimulating places to work?
  • How can we weave our individual purpose with the purpose of the organisations we work in?
  • How can we be switched-on everyday?

Andy loves to spend his time with his wife Diane and his three children Adam, Rosie and Oli.

Boz Kay

Boz is the web developer and manager for nowhere. He works with the latest technology to produce innovative web systems, that support and promote the nowhere practice.

Boz studied art, photography and music, and has practised Aikido and Buddhist meditation since the early age of 16.

Inspired by the birth of the internet, he saw its potential and became a web developer. He set up one of the first commercial websites making web pages for small businesses. Since then he has worked on hundreds of websites and has a wide range of experience in programming languages and web techniques. In his work with nowhere, Boz is exploring the role of technology as a support to consciousness practices.

Boz lives in Devon, England with his wife Yasmin and his three sons Seren, Manu and Jago.

Chris Jacob

Chris is a creative catalyst in limitednowhere. He works with leadership teams to help release their creative and strategic potential. He specialises in working with teams that are responsible for generating breakthrough strategies and innovatively putting them into practice.

With a first degree in History, Chris started his career with Bain and Company. With this background in the development of strategy Chris has worked for a number of different businesses leading, developing and delivering new strategies. Before joining nowhere he was Director of European Strategy for Capital One Bank in Europe.

Chris lives in North Norfolk with his wife Diana, his two children Emma and Nick and his two stepsons Ross and Sam.

David Hansen

David is a director of nowherenz passionate about researching, designing and facilitating breakthrough interventions for individuals, groups and organisations.

With degrees in Sociology and Psychology he started his professional career as a rugby player and coach in England, Italy, and the USA. This experience fuelled his interest in individual and team performance and led to him completing a Masters in Organizational Behaviour.

In the early 90's David opened the Australian operation of a global psychometrics supplier. From there he moved to a London based consultancy to lead research and consulting on a series of global projects. From there, following his passion for discovering new and more powerful ways to catalyse change and performance he started his own business and co-founded the nowheregroup in 2001.

He now has over twenty years experience in organizational development and business transformation working with leading organisations in over twenty countries.

He lives in Auckland, New Zealand with his wife Suzanne and his children Joshua and Georgia.

Ed Rowland

Edward is co-founder and Programme Director of the nowhere academy's systemic consulting and coaching services. He works as a systemic organisational consultant, senior executive coach and constellations practitioner, helping leaders, teams and organisations in all sectors to unfold their potential and creativity. He also tutors for CSISS training programmes in systemic constellations.

His vocational journey has integrated academic, creative and psychological disciplines; after Masters degrees in History and Law, he trained as a barrister, theatre actor and family systems/ Gestalt practitioner. He has also trained with the Tavistock Consultancy Service and most of the leading systemic practitioners.

He began consulting to organisations in 1995, initially specialising - and lecturing - in management and sustainability, before devoting himself to leadership transformation and systemic change. He has worked with numerous international companies, UK Government departments and charities.

He lives with his partner and their baby daughter in the country south of Bath, and loves singing, dancing and sailing.

Jane James

Jane is programme lead of enhancingchildren'slearning working with teachers, leaders and educational professionals to support families and schools to enable children to learn and live fully.

Originally a secondary teacher, Jane has worked in all sectors of education including early years and universities and has been a school governor for more than ten years. She has been working with systemic approaches in schools since 2003 and has taken part in three major projects funded by the UK central government Department for Children Schools and Families.

Jane is also an Associate Consultant at Bristol Business School. She works extensively in individual and organisational development as both a consultant and as a qualified leadership and executive coach.

Jane lives in Bath with her husband Chris. They have four children who have 'flown the nest' but who are welcomed back with their partners and friends on every possible occasion.

Jenny Mackewn

Jenny Mackewn is a creative-catalyst in limitednowhere. She enables leaders and Leadership teams to review and transform their ways of working in order to achieve personal and business targets. In this context she supports and challenges catalysts, facilitators and business leaders to form strategic partnerships in the service of the business imperatives. She specialises in integrating innovative approaches to awaken purpose and build energetic commitment around key strategic goals.

Her work is an ongoing experiment in consciousness and commerciality and the relationship between the two. She has worked as mentor, coach, university fellow, college lecturer, manager, director, sales girl, mother, author and now finds that all aspects of her life experience contribute in equal measure to what she offers.

Jenny lives in Bath with her husband.

Liam Hinshelwood

Liam joined enternowhere as a creative-catalyst in 2005 after graduating from Falmouth College of Art and a short spell teaching design. He brought with him a passion for designing in both three dimensions and digital media, along with expertise in the increasingly important field of sustainable design. With enternowhere his skills have helped businesses explore, express and connect to their futures in exciting and meaningful ways.

Liam lives in North-West London although he can often be found sat on his board looking out to sea waiting for the next wave.

Marc Cornwell

Marc is brand director of nowhere and a co-founder and managing director of enternowhere.

The son of a professional footballer, Marc spent his early years playing football until an injury in his teens curtailed his blossoming sporting career. This change in his life led him to the practice of design.

He followed this path into his late teens and early twenties eventually graduating with a First Class degree. Marc then chose to join a new design consultancy led by a former partner of Pentagram. Here he pioneered the use of 3D CAD to create consumer products for major UK brands, working with marketeers, engineers and manufacturers across Europe, Asia and the Far East until leaving to co-found enternowhere in 2000.

He now works in organisations as an integral part of large strategic culture change programmes, using his design practice to bring to life and embed organisational purpose, values, brand, vision and strategy.

Marc lives in the Cotswolds, England with his wife Sal and two children Charlie and Albie.

Matt Clarke

Matt is a director of nowhere and co-founder and managing director of beyondnowhere UK. He supports senior leadership teams and their (typically) global remit to re-orient their work to what is most purposeful and naturally energizing.

Inspired by a life-changing cure from chronic asthma, Matt went on to study Naturopathic Medicine, lectured in Naturopathic clinical medicine and in Ethics and Jurisprudence, and practiced in a multidisciplinary medical center treating individuals, families and organisations.

He moved to London in May 1997 and worked first with Corporate Vision, and then with Hanson Associates, developing his practice as an executive coach and mediator of senior leadership teams and functions. In 2002 he co-founded beyondnowhere acting as director and creative-catalyst.

A trustee of the Baale Mane hostel for girl children in Bangalore, India, Matt lives in London with his wife Eileen and their two sons, Jackson and Coleman.

Mike Malig

Mike is a director of enternowhere and a director of nowheregroup, leading the development of products and artefacts. This role involves supporting some of the world's largest companies to create meaningful products and experiences.

With a first degree in design from Ravensbourne College and a Masters in furniture design from the Royal College of Art, Mike began his practice as a furniture designer. His passion for people and products has led him to quest, develop and pioneer co-creative objects. Mike has years of experience working with major businesses and has revealed insights into the way three dimensions can help to weave together people, strategy and brand to enhance a rich and meaningful experience.

He pioneered the creative-catalyst role in the late nineties and then joined enternowhere in 2002. Mike lives in Cambridgeshire in a house he built for his wife Rachel and their three children Jas, Mica and Matheusz.

Nic Turner

Nic is the managing director of limitednowhere supporting leaders and developing catalysts in some of the world's largest companies to inspire strategic and cultural innovation.

With a first degree in English and Sociology, Nic initially became a teacher. In his early twenties he became fascinated by different consciousness practices. This led to him driving a six-wheel box van from the UK to India, across Europe, through Iran before the Shah was deposed, then Afghanistan before the Russian invasion, arriving in New Delhi eight months later. In India he studied yoga and meditation.

In 1983 he joined a US oil company to work in curriculum design and language teaching in Saudi Arabia, which enabled him to do a Masters in Psycholinguistics and Instructional Design. Nic returned to the UK and through the nineties led major cultural transformations in some of the UK's largest companies.

He was nowhere's first benefactor and joined limitednowhere in 2001.

Nic lives in Derbyshire, England with his wife Susie and his two sons Ben and Jamie.

Dr Nick Udall

Nick is a co-founder and the CEO of nowhere. He works with CEOs and executive leaders of global businesses to develop breakthrough strategies and build cultures of innovation.

Originally trained in Product Design, Nick became fascinated by the nature of the creative process. He went on to undertake a PhD in Consciousness and Creativity where he had the opportunity to integrate the disciplines of art, design, consciousness, and personal and organisational transformation with the psychology, philosophy and phenomenology of creative breakthrough.

Throughout the nineties, Nick began consulting with executive leaders of global corporations on how to unlock the creativity of their organisations. In 1994 he also co-founded the Design Transformation Group, a community of international designers, artists, futurologists, educationalists, philosophers, consultants and other practitioners who were interested in exploring design as an act of meaning-making.

In the late nineties, Nick co-founded nowhere.

Nick lives in Surrey, England, with his wife Caroline, and two young children, Kaia and Zen.

Dr Sue Abbotson

Sue is a co-founder of nowhere and principal of the nowhereacademy. She specialises in bringing a systemic perspective towards releasing the creative potential of leaders and teams for organisational innovation.

With a PhD in Management, Sue explored the creative process in radio and theatre as an inquiry into how leaders can create the optimal conditions to enhance creative performance. This led to an approach to leadership development, which works with the transformative edge of the present moment.

Sue was originally trained in Gestalt in Organisations and went on to specialise her practice in the field of organisational constellations. She is a pioneer of the use of systemic coaching in organisations and was a co-creator of the creAte coaching process within nowhere. She also uses mindfulness- based practices to work with the visible and invisible dynamics in change contexts.

Sue has worked as a research fellow and lecturer in leading Business Schools in the UK, as a manager in Local Government and and as a Director of Bath Consultancy Group.

In the late nineties Sue co-founded nowhere.

Sue lives in Bath with her husband and the youngest of her 3 children.

Susie Turner

Susie has been the nowheregroup business manager since 2003, managing the support function of the group, as well as organising nowhere events. She is also a qualified Gestalt psychotherapist and fitness instructor.

Her background includes: travelling and working in Asia, Australia, and the Middle East; twelve years in the UK fitness industry as instructor and personal trainer; and voluntary work with people with mental health issues.

After gaining her MSc she worked with teenagers in the voluntary sector in addition to establishing her private psychotherapy practice. She has also developed classes integrating movement and dance with Gestalt therapy, drawing on her 5Rhythms training. Her ongoing interest in health and energy, has led to her recently completing two marathons.

She has two sons aged 22 and 18, and lives in Derby with her husband, Nic.

Terry Ingham

Terry is a Group Director at nowhere leading on the development of their ecl programme. He has 20 years consulting and research experience working with both commercial and public sector organisations. He specialises in working alongside leaders, their teams and change agents to catalyse innovation and manage change. He has a strong interest in the nature of creativity, human systems and collective intelligence, and how people can utilise them to find better ways of living and working together.

He has been with nowhere since 2001, having previously been Head of Corporate Development at Wiltshire County Council where his work focused on leadership development, organisational culture change and community strategy.

Current projects include co-designing and facilitating Organisational Constellations programmes for leaders and consultants, a Next Practice in Education project with the TDA/IU, a whole system culture change in a secondary school and running specialist creative workshops for leadership groups. He holds a Masters degree from University of Bath in Education specialising in action inquiry.

Tracy Draffan

Tracy is the Finance assistant to all five nowhere companies.

Tracy graduated from University in 1992 with a degree in fashion marketing. She worked as a ladies-wear buyer in the North-East before spending a number of years living and teaching in Venezuela and Hong Kong. Upon her return to the UK she went on to study and practice 3D AutoCAD design and continues to do so alongside her work with nowhere.

Tracy lives in Derby with her husband, Paul and son Callum.

Victoria Udall

Tor works in nowheregroup as the Programme Manager of nowherecircles and their related Quests.

With a BA (Hons) degree in Theatre, Film and TV from Bristol University, Tor spent her early career as a theatre director, choreographer and performer, devising and delivering productions for The National Theatre, The Royal Festival Hall, Sadlers Wells and The Royal College of Music. She was also director of theatre and dance at a sixth form college and was guest teacher of drama at Surrey University.

She first worked with the nowherefoundation in 2003, researching the methods and practices of co-creation within the nowheregroup. She then became the Programme Manager of Moving Constellations in 2005, enjoying the opportunity to learn about systemic perspectives and immersing herself in constellations. With her background in creative arts, she is interested in assisting people in their journey to expression and health so that they can release their full potential and take their place in the world.

She is currently working on a novel under the guidance of the Jonathan Pegg Literary Agency.

Tor lives in London, England with her partner Tom and their daughter Willow.