Welcome. I’m Carlo Navato, 50% Londoner, 50% Neapolitan. 

I’m fuelled by insatiable curiosity and forever on the look-out for the next connection and the next possibility. Growing up in a household with an English mother and an Italian father set the scene early for an environment predicated on opposites. My childhood, mostly feral and spent outdoors, was built on adventure, exploration and seeing things a bit differently. Life on an edge-land council estate in the 1970’s, showed me time and again that it was possible to create great things from nothing. We were frugal, experimental, and creative.

From a young age it seemed instinctual to me that the tension between opposites was at the heart of creativity. So boisterous tree climber and studious reader, maker of bows and arrows to shoot with and maker of cakes to please with. Lover of art, lover of science. 

I’m a collector of things including new experiences, new juxtapositions and new intuitions. I studied building and real estate in my 20’s, wine and design in my 30’s, photography in my 40’s and performance coaching and Zen in my 50’s. 

I’m impatient, adaptable, and resilient and find that resourcefulness is our greatest resource. I value craftsmanship and I’ve learned that cheap is expensive.

I believe in the essence of not knowing, and the wisdom of holding uncertainty lightly. I’m never happier than hanging out with open-minded mavericks in wild places.

Most of all I like to make spaces: physically through my development company, creatively through photography, writing and experiments in connection, and professionally through consulting, coaching, and advising in leadership transformation and change.

I’ve recently given up worrying so much about being found out.

carlo@carlonavato.com