My work areas
The common thread is
“meaningful”, not just “more”
With executives for:
“meaningful” companies
Building more holistically successful businesses and overcoming bureaucratic drift.
governance, culture, adding meaningful value, employee, environment, community excellence.
See: shoremount.com
“John has helped us re-define our strategy and change our business model to create new opportunities and focus on long-term ambitions. We now look set to generate a marked improvement not only in financial returns but also in the way we interact with our local community, the environment and wider stakeholders. Importantly, I am also now enjoying my personal role and am excited about the future.”
Principal
Family Office
With investors for:
”meaningful” stewardship
Aligning investment strategies and stewardship with worldview, values and prosperity.
stewardship, impact, strategy, diligence and trends.
See: shoremount.com
“Originally, John’s role was to enhance our due diligence process and integrate the various partners in one of our funds with complex operational challenges. Off the back of this, we invited him to join the Investment Committee for our three flagship funds. John has been an integral member of the team that has gone on to win numerous awards. He has been a pleasure to work with.”
Chief Investment Officer,
Leading Impact Investor
With individuals for:
”meaningful” lives
Helping individuals with success (wealth, power, influence etc) navigate its personal complexity.
character, identity, soul, purpose, spiritual direction.
“John is a uniquely gifted coach and advisor. He brings a warmth and wisdom that combines a deep and practical understanding of business challenges with a profoundly human empathy. John's counsel, support and practical guidance was absolutely invaluable at a time of major professional and personal challenge and I would have struggled to navigate it without him.”
Head of Strategy
Big 4 Consulting Firm
With thinkers for:
”meaningful” exploration
Contributing to exercises where deeper (perhaps less modern) thinking is needed to look forward.
dialogues, peer to peer exploration, think tanks, working groups, sacred/secular overlaps.
“Over years of discussions with leading board Chairs, NEDs and global CEO’s, I have witnessed this paradox: a conviction that things must change and yet a personal brain-freeze and gutlessness that perpetuates the status quo. In meeting John Featherby, I found a highly articulate advisor already inhabiting the future of sustainable and flourishing business and the inherent re-imagination of the relationship between employer and employees in a thriving workforce. I recommend him to any leader brave enough to be on the right side of history earlier than most.”
Managing Partner
Executive Search Firm
Passion Projects
What I do with my other time
The Crossover
Rediscovering rites of passage
Ancient cultures celebrated and revered the transition from childhood to adulthood; modern western society does not.
We are on a mission to restore it. At this point, we are focused on boys and the exploration of what being a man might mean for them.
The Commonwealth
Reconciliation and Future Flourishing
Long running reconciliation programme between England, other British nations, the Commonwealth and the East India Company.
After decades of work that precedes me, my role is more forward looking into possibilities as opposed to backwards into problems.
Faith, Family & Farming
Rediscovering a theology of land
Working group of British farmers, landowners and conservationists exploring spirituality and stewardship, blending theology, philosophy, science and the arts to explore ideas.
Today, my family has farm in Cornwall. My ancestors farmed across Yorkshire for centuries.