About
The independent voice in the room
Evidence becomes direction, direction becomes impact — delivered by someone who reads the room, tells the truth, and stays human while doing it.
The Mission
Give me the problem, I'll find the angle everyone missed.
Your room gets someone who sees the big picture, connects what no one else has connected, and drives change that sticks. The uncomfortable truths get said — backed by evidence. And every person in your room, from funder to frontline, walks out able to act on the same picture.
About Malcolm
Strategist, storyteller, systems thinker
You are working with someone who has spent 25 years and four countries connecting data, community wellbeing, and regional development — so the advice lands in your context, not a textbook.
The platforms, measurement systems, and community-grounded frameworks from past work are already battle-tested — which means your organisation gets methods that tell you whether investment actually changes outcomes, without the trial-and-error.
For you, that means data that speaks as a living expression of your community's aspiration — not an abstraction in a spreadsheet.
The Shift
How Jester works — from signal to action
The Secret Power
Reading the room, choosing the moment
Your big-picture ideas actually get acted on — by the funder, the council, the community, the board. The directness you need lands at the moment it counts, with the trust to make it stick, and the hard thing the room was avoiding finally gets said.
Direct
You hear the full truth — clear, unhedged, and backed by evidence — not just the parts that are comfortable to say.
Subtle
The hard truth lands at the moment it can actually change the outcome — not a day too early, not a day too late.
Human
Working together feels human — direct when it matters, humane in the delivery, and never at your expense.
Here's the signal, here's what it means, and here's where we move next.
Work with the independent voice
Your organisation's biggest decisions deserve evidence behind them — not instinct alone.