This week on the show, we speak to Master storyteller, Brain Fitzgerald from the Creative Global Agency 'Dancing Fox'. After working for GreenPeace for 35 years, Brian and fellow Fox, Tommy Crawford began assembling a new band of 'beautiful mischief makers' to bring fresh creative energy to the tables of some of the biggest charities and foundations in the world, helping the to redefine and reform the message and promote the wellbeing of the planet. We speak openly and honestly about his time in the field as an activist and discover some of the brave moments that have propelled Brian into living the unique and colourful life that he now leads. It is with great pleasure that I get to introduce you to this mischievous 'Dancing Fox', Brian Fitzgerald.
In Brian's own words:
I'm one half of Mister Fox, the trickster alter ego and Chief Executive Whisker Washer at Dancing Fox, Ltd, a creative agency and storytelling factory. The other half is my creative partner, Tommy Crawford. We worked together at Greenpeace, where I spent 35 years driving innovation internally and learning how to work the levers of disruptive communications.
In the early days, I did what one does in any charity startup: everything. I was a one-man IT department, a governance architect, a communications director, a deckhand, an action coordinator. I stopped a nuclear weapons test for four days. I hung a banner on the Statue of Liberty. I helped set up offices in Italy and the Soviet Union. I sailed on Greenpeace ships. I saved whales. I built a web activism team in the days before web activism was a thing.
I worked with Tommy and a band of storytelling pirates for nearly three years developing a theory of change for Greenpeace International and an organisational story, crafted on three continents, that got embedded into its long term planning. Tommy and I founded Dancing Fox to share our experience and techniques with other change makers, and to develop a mindbomb or two of our own. We believe in courage and creativity. We believe activism can be more invitational, more joyful, more hope and solutions based. We believe great stories have the power to change the world.
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