I help organizations hear what they’ve been missing, and turn it into practical change
I'm Dr. Owen Chamberlain, a strategist and qualitative researcher who helps navigate complexity with clarity. Whether you're designing learning ecosystems, shaping culture, or rethinking how people adapt to change, I help connect what’s really happening to what you’re trying to do.
Culture, learning, and systems thinking, brought down to earth
I’ve led global transformation programs, co-chaired neurodiversity initiatives, and earned a doctorate studying how power works inside systems. I'm part academic, part practitioner (a pracademic) with a habit of spotting patterns others miss..
Where I Engage
Culture, Systems, and Strategy: I help make sense of how people actually experience work. My practice sits at the intersection of research, leadership, and lived organizational dynamics.
From Theory to Practice: I translate complex ideas about power, learning, and systems into actionable insights. My doctorate explored how invisible forces shape behavior; now, I use that lens to support meaningful transformation.
Speaking, Writing, Making Trouble: I write and speak about the messy, human side of work: how culture resists, how strategies collapse, and what leaders can do about it. Always practical, always grounded, occasionally provocative.
Media Features
Reworked.co
Editorial: Better Work or Better Cover? The Double Life of AI in the Workplace, which considers the use of AI to prop up a culture that prizes being quickly right over slowly wiser.
The BLOC Podcast
Podcast: I joined Dr Heidi Kirby on the BLOC (Building Learning and Organizational Culture) Podcast, discussing pracademia and how we can narrow the gap between theory and practice.
Docebo Inspire 25
Conference Recording: This session explored how AI can shift that dynamic, not just directing employees but empowering them with agency over their development.
The future of engagement isn’t a concept: it’s a strategy. From inside the enterprise, I challenge defaults, rewire systems, and apply theory to where it actually matters: organizational change.