Platform speaker, teacher and consultant, Stephen provides creative and strategic support to charities, universities and arts organisations in UK and abroad. He has a special interest in the way charities treat, or mistreat, their supporters.

He is a visiting Professor for Plymouth University’s Hartsook Centre for Sustainable Philanthropy.  In 2015, he was given the Institute of Fundraising’s Lifetime Contribution Award and in that year, his first book How to love your donors…to death was published.