Kenny is Engagement Lead within the Capacity Building and Standards function at Involve. He designs and delivers participatory and deliberative approaches that put people at the heart of decision-making. He is passionate about creating new civic infrastructures and capabilities that support communities to have agency and meaningfully respond to collective challenges.
As Programme and Pedagogical Lead for the School for Everyday Democracy, Kenny oversees an innovative National Lottery-funded programme supporting people across the UK to become catalysts for change in their communities. The programme combines training in participation and deliberation, community organising and collective care as foundations to supporting people to build power and influence on issues that matter to them.
Kenny’s background combines systems thinking, anthropology, psychotherapy and facilitation. He designs collaborative processes that bridge personal, cultural and systemic change. Before joining Involve, Kenny was Programme Manager for Citizen Engagement at the Food, Farming and Countryside Commission, where he designed and established the Food Conversation - the UK's largest ever national conversation about food – combining deliberation, advocacy, community conversations and local action and that involved over 350 citizens in deliberative dialogues and many more through community-led conversations.
Kenny holds a first-class degree in Social & Cultural Anthropology and draws on his training in psychotherapy and group process to create transformative engagement experiences. Currently training as a Core Process Psychotherapist with a small Private Practice in Bristol, this complementary work deepens his practice and holding of complexity, uncertainty and change. Outside of work, he is figuring out being a Dad while still trying to find space for football, yoga, veg growing and surfing.