Deliberative Decision Making in Organisations
A pilot programme using participatory processes and democratic tech to improve how organisations make complex decisions.
What is it about?
This pilot will organisations test a new way of making decisions on complex issues.
Using proven participatory methods and emerging democratic technology, we bring together a diverse group of people from across your organisation to work with real insight, not just opinion.
With expert facilitation, participants explore evidence, weigh trade-offs, and develop practical recommendations.
The pilot shows how deliberation can lead to stronger decisions, shared ownership, and greater confidence in navigating complexity.
Who are we?
Olivia Stamp
Director
Olivia is a strategist and facilitator working at the intersection of organisational change, democratic innovation, and community power.
She helps organisations and communities manage risk and opportunity by designing processes that make better use of the intelligence already present across their ecosystem. Her work focuses on turning complexity into clarity through collective sense-making and imagination.
Olivia brings senior operational experience from fast-growth environments, having helped scale the healthtech company Accurx from an early team to over 250 staff, while managing large NHS contracts.
She has also built and supported founder communities at scale through Entrepreneur First. Currently she is leading on Waves programme, the UK’s largest trial in digital democracy.
She bridges strategy and practice, helping groups connect across sectors and turn ambitious ideas into decisions that can be delivered in complex, real-world settings.
Ben Redhead
Co-Founder and Director
Ben is an experienced facilitator and participatory change practitioner with a deep background in deliberative democracy and organisational change.
He brings extensive experience leading complex change projects at London School of Economics and across the education sector.
As a former Director and Associate of the Sortition Foundation, he has facilitated Citizen Assemblies and large-scale deliberative processes, including the Global Assembly.
His facilitation practice is grounded in deep listening, inclusive design, and dialogue, informed by a background in mental health, wellbeing, and youth work.
He combines participatory methods with democratic technology to build trust, widen access, and support groups to think clearly, act collectively, and navigate complexity with confidence.
Who do we want to partner with?
We are intentionally open to working across sectors. The challenges of decision making, change, and complexity are widely shared. Participatory and deliberative approaches are transferable, and often work best when applied beyond their usual settings.
For this pilot, we are looking to partner with organisations or teams of 20 people or more who are curious about doing things differently. This could include private companies, public bodies, charities, cooperatives or community organisations.
We are less interested in sector labels and more interested in groups who recognise untapped potential in their people and are open to experimenting with new ways of thinking together.
The pilot is well suited to organisations facing complex issues, where decisions feel hard to land or ownership is fragmented. If you believe there is more collective intelligence in your organisation than current processes allow, and you want to explore participatory and deliberative approaches in practice, we would welcome a conversation.
Interested?
Interested?
This pilot is designed as a learning partnership, not a quick sign-up or one-off intervention.
We expect conversations to unfold over weeks and, in some cases, months as we get to know your context, explore fit, and shape a meaningful focus together.
Registering your interest simply opens a conversation. There is no commitment at this stage. We will follow up to learn more about your organisation, share how the pilot works in practice, and see whether this feels like a useful next step for both sides.
If you are curious but not yet certain, that is exactly the right place to start.