We are Building a Tribe

At Lakefield Drive we are building our own tribe of optimists, realists, theorists, pragmatists, ethicists, utilitarians and libertarians. We are capable, adaptive and honest.

If this is interesting then …

Position Vacant: Thought Wrangler and Stuff Doer

Location: Anywhere you can find a decent Wi-Fi signal and a better-than-average coffee

Type: Full-time, part-time, or just part-of-every-conversation

Remuneration: Design your own and justify it - value created is more useful that value consumed.

About Us

We’re a forward-leaning, side-glancing, occasionally eye-rolling organisation on a mission to do great things, tell honest stories, unravel mysteries and fictions, identify potential disasters, convey wisdom, find insight and ways of knowing,all the while ensuring the meeting minutes are interesting.

We believe in great governance, big ideas, brave decisions, and well-timed sarcasm. What we need now is someone who can light up a whiteboard, drop a quote from a Nobel Laureate, and still make a strategy and governance session feel like a TED Talk with snacks.

If you deliver entertaining training on whatever we agree upon, or are engaged to deliver, with authority and humility, then we are keen to talk.

About You

You know everything, or at least a lot, with an ability to predict what is needed next and preferably the desire to do it.

You’ve got:

• The wisdom of a seasoned philosopher, the passion of a TEDx speaker, and the energy of someone who drinks too much single-origin espresso.
• A brain wired for systems, connections, and occasional conspiracies (ideally the strategic kind, or related to strategy and decisions which impact other - not US politics or local versions).
• Curiosity informed by being well read. Can write. Don’t take offence too easily when we disagree.
• An ability to spot governance gaps, ethical minefields, or operational inefficiencie. 
• A love for frameworks, models, metaphors, and rebranding the same idea at least three times until they get it.
• The ability to capture and convey ideas in whatever medium is required - including writing words; yes we can be “old school”!

Your Mission (Should You Choose to Accept It)

• Be the voice of reason. Or passion. Or critique. We’ll let you know what we need that day.
• Inject insight into complex problems and humour into unbearable PowerPoint decks.
• Turn strategy into poetry (or at least something less painful).
• Spot what’s missing before anyone else does, and make it sound like you planned it all along.
• Help us be wise, not just smart. And never, ever boring.
• Do whatever, whenever, like we do.

Selection Criteria

• Must be able to say “That reminds me of something profound“, without losing the room.
• Must have made peace with the phrase “It depends.”
• Must have at least one bookshelf organised by theme, not alphabet.
• Should be fluent in corporate jargon but prefer not to use it.
• Must be able to make a case for existential risk and upgrading the shared calendar.
• Can critique, proofread and correct simultaneously.
• A good moral compass and a sense of humour.

Bonus Points

• You’ve been accused of “thinking too much”, and took it as a compliment.
• You’ve been asked “What is it exactly that you do?”, more than once.
• You know the difference between being the smartest person in the room and being the most useful.

How to Apply to Join the Tribe

Send us your thoughts a CV, a manifesto, or a voice memo recorded while pacing.

Write a paper (with references) on a problem with modern governance, and two solutions.

Impress us. Confuse us. Make us question our entire business model.

Just don’t bore us.

Info@lakefielddrive.co