David Key
As an ecologist, mountaineer and outdoor leader, I have spent a lifetime outdoors - learning from nature. And being utterly changed by my experiences.
Across mountains, forests and coastlines, one lesson has remained constant: healthy systems thrive through relationships. Every living system depends on countless connections that enable resilience, adaptation and renewal. Human communities and organisations are no different.
This understanding has shaped more than thirty years of work spanning consultancy, postgraduate education and social enterprise. I bring ecology and psychology together to help create healthier cultures, stronger relationships and lasting change.
I hold an MSc (Dist.) in Human Ecology, specialising in Ecopsychology - the study of the relationships between human psychology and the rest of nature. My work has included leading postgraduate programmes, designing professional training, advising boards, and working with organisations including WWF, Greenpeace International, the Eden Project, and the Australian Conservation Foundation - as well as numerous universities and public sector departments. I am a published author in the fields of ecopsychology and social change.
My approach is informed as much by time spent outdoors as by academic research and organisational practice. Nature is not simply an interest or metaphor; it provides the most complete understanding we have of how living systems remain healthy over time.
I do not prescribe any predetermined frameworks or off-the-shelf solutions. Instead, I work with the relationships, patterns and assumptions that shape every social system from within. This creates change grounded in the reality of each community or organisation rather than being imposed from the outside.
Ultimately, my work is driven by a simple purpose: to help create an ecologically viable future by strengthening the relationships that allow people, organisations, communities and the natural world to thrive, together.
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