
Professor of Public Management
Toby is an action researcher at Centre for Public Impact.
He joined the CPI team in 2020.
Toby has a PhD in Political Theory from Newcastle University, exploring “the Concept of Community in Political Theory”.
Toby was Chief Executive of a participatory arts charity in North East England, supporting marginalised and excluded people to explore and address their creativity.
He has also done policy work addressing poverty in neighbourhoods for the Social Exclusion Unit, and worked as a public management action researcher – helping public service organisations across the world to change their approach to management, so that it better serves the lives of real people, in what is called a Human Learning Systems approach.
At CPI, he is passionate about helping to change how public service is managed, as he believes that how we perform in public management is directly connected to governments’ ability to address the complex challenges faced by people.
In his leisure time, Toby enjoys dancing and DJ-ing.
Some of Toby’s work includes: