About the author
The Synaptic Composting framework was not built in a seminar room. It was built from years of watching real people do the hardest thing available to any of us.
Kieron has spent his career sitting with people in the middle of change. Not the easy kind. The kind that asks something of you at a deeper level. He trained as a Naturopath and worked with people navigating serious illness, including cancer, learning early that real change begins long before any practical intervention. That understanding runs through everything he has written.
He has worked extensively in change management across BT and EE, and led AI transformation at British Airways, giving him a rare dual perspective on what it means to keep pace with an organisation that will not slow down. He has sat with leaders who were excellent at what they did and could not understand why it was no longer working. With professionals who had invested decades in building expertise and were beginning to sense, quietly, that the ground was moving beneath them.
"Not releasing something old. Discovering, on the other side of that release, that what they had composted had become the richest soil they had ever grown from."
The Synaptic Composting framework is, at its root, a description of something Kieron experienced in his own life before he ever had a name for it. It is not a theory. It is a description of what real transformation actually looks like when you stop pretending it is supposed to be painless, and start working with the material you actually have.
He is also the author of the forthcoming How to Master the 7 States of Self-Reflection, and co-author (with his twin brother Nathan) of How to Be a Slightly Less Shit Human Being. All three are published under the Dutch Harbour imprint.
