Founder and Director of Sociability, Founder of Mindapples and Co-founder of School of Everything
Andy Gibson is a digital entrepreneur, campaigner and consultant specialising in the social uses of technology. He’s co-founder of the award-winning “eBay for learning″ start-up School of Everything, which won both a New Statesman New Media Award and a Prime Minister’s Catalyst Award in 2008, and founder of the 5-a-day for mental health campaign, Mindapples. He also advises other organisations on new technologies and business strategy through his writing, speaking and consultancy work.
As a consultant he advises organisations including the RSA, NESTA and The Nag in the social uses of technology, and is a mentor and dogsbody for Social Innovation Camp. He’s also an experienced event facilitator and a host for The People Speak. In 2007 he was listed in the Observer Future 500 “ones to watch” in the UK and is also a fellow of the RSA and the School for Social Entrepreneurs.
Andy specialises in business strategy, service design and project leadership for companies, organisations and campaigns, focussing particularly on education, democracy and mental health. He really likes being helpful.
He actually trained as a historian, studying at Cambridge and specialising in the social and cultural history of the Renaissance and Reformation. After that he ran the national teacher recruitment campaign Those Who Can, Teach, won a Web Marketing Association Award for Skillset Film and produced five acclaimed storyboard guides to the media industries. He writes various blogs, gives occasional presentations, speaks in public and does the odd bit of event facilitation. He has no free time but if he did he’d play guitar and piano, sing badly, read graphic novels and write comedy. He’s slowly realising that studying the history of periods of rapid social and technological change has been the perfect preparation for navigating the swirling waters of the information age.
Follow Andy on Twitter (@gandy), or connect with him on various professional networks including School of Everything, LinkedIn, Courvoisier Future 500 and New Media eXchange.
Questions? E-mail andy[at]sociability.org.uk
