Change That Holds
is Designed.
Architecture for Human Systems Under Pressure
Founder & Co-Architect, HOSA
Founder, Nervous System Economy
Creator, Who Turned The Lights On
Intellectual Focus
For many years I worked at the level of behaviour — refining habits, optimising performance, increasing effort. The results were often impressive in the short term. They rarely endured.
Over time a pattern became impossible to ignore. Change collapses not because people lack motivation, but because the structure beneath the change cannot sustain what is being asked of it. Capacity is exceeded. Constraints are misunderstood. The sequence of change is rushed or misapplied.
Under pressure, systems revert to what they are structurally organised to support. This applies equally to an individual navigating stress and to an organisation pursuing growth. The language may evolve. The architecture does not.
My work examines and redesigns that architecture. I focus on the structural conditions under which change becomes viable and durable, rather than temporarily accelerated.
Selected Work
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Human Operation
System Architecture
Founder & Co-Architect
Human Operating System Architecture (HOSA)
is a first-principles system for designing durable change across biological, behavioural and organisational layers.
Developed through the structured sequencing of more than 1,100 modalities and practices, it formalises the relationship between capacity, constraints and lawful order of change.
HOSA defines why collapse repeats and how structural coherence prevents it.
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Nervous System Economy
Founder
The Nervous System Economy is an applied research and pilot platform focused on Biological Economics — the relationship between energy, load, solvency and performance across individuals and institutions.
NSE explores how biological capacity influences professional output, decision-making and business growth. Its current phase centres on pilot programmes, practitioner community and field testing.
Over time, NSE is designed to serve as a structured go-to-market platform for applied architectures, including HOSA.
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Who Turned The Lights On
Creator
Who Turned The Lights On began as a podcast exploring structural collapse and durable change through lived experience, applied inquiry and expert conversation.
It is currently expanding beyond audio into laboratory formats — small, applied environments where architecture is tested in practice.
The platform serves as a public-facing field for examining what stabilises under pressure, what fragments, and why.
Professional Experience
Before developing HOSA, I spent seventeen years building NB3, a business growth agency serving technology companies selling into enterprise markets. The work required navigating complex procurement cycles, executive decision structures and high-stakes performance environments. Growth was never theoretical. It had to convert.
I also spent six years preparing regulated financial services firms to meet regulatory scrutiny, focusing on governance design, accountability structures and decision architecture under pressure.
Project Name
& location
Academic Development
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MSc Mind Psychology & Body Psychotherapy, University of East London (in progress)
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Ten years of advanced training with The Demartini Institute
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Four scholarly publications (formerly under Nervous System Intelligence)
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Author, NSI: The Science of Growth
Advisory & Speaking
Shannon advises founders, executive teams and regulated institutions on structural coherence, governance design and durable performance.