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Dom Morris is a strategist, politico, and widely respected coach and practitioner in the art of strategy, particularly in defense and security. Described as one of Malcolm Gladwell’s “super-connectors,” Dom has advised senior leaders, lectured at King’s College London, and supported the UK Defense community in campaigns and resilience planning. He also runs Strategy Farm, where teams engage in deep strategic analysis and planning in the fields. 

  1. Dom brings together strategic thinking and practical experience, working with leaders and organizations on complex challenges in defense, security, campaigns, and resilience planning. 
  2. Beyond his work as a strategist, Dom serves as a county councilor, bringing his experience in strategy and public life into local government. 
  3. Dom works the family farm with his dog, Disraeli, and describes Strategy Farm as a strategy-making equivalent of “Clarkson’s Farm.” 

Dom Morris

Grand Strategist and Campaign Planner, Strategy Farm

Baroness Philippa Stroud co-founded FORUM, a global cross-sector network of senior leaders designed to translate influence into cultural renewal and societal impact. What began in London has expanded into an international community spanning Europe and the United States, with the U.S. network jointly operated with Sagamore Institute to convene leaders across business, policy, faith, and culture. Alongside her FORUM leadership, Stroud brings decades of experience shaping poverty and opportunity policy—serving in the House of Lords and leading major institutions—helping connect ideas, influence, and action to drive long-term societal change.

  • Baroness Philippa Stroud serves as a Member of the House of Lords and Executive Chair of the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship, and previously led major think tanks including the Legatum Institute and the Centre for Social Justice.
  • Along with her husband David Stroud she co-founded FORUM, building a relational, cross-sector network of influential leaders committed to using their platforms for the common good—now operating internationally with Sagamore as U.S. partner.
  • Philippa played a key role in poverty and welfare reform policy, advising U.K. leadership and helping adapt work-focused welfare models internationally, including collaboration with policy innovators connected to Sagamore.

Baroness Philippa Stroud

Distinguished Senior Fellow

Co-founder, FORUM

One Big Thing: David Stroud co-founded FORUM, a global cross-sector network of senior leaders designed to translate influence into cultural and societal renewal. What began as a London gathering has grown into an international community spanning the U.K. and U.S., with Sagamore Institute serving as the U.S. partner to expand convenings, working groups, and leadership collaborations. Through teaching, convening, and coaching leaders across sectors, Stroud focuses on building relational networks that move ideas into action for long-term societal impact.

  • David co-founded FORUM with his wife Baroness Philippa Stroud; the initiative has grown into a global network of influential leaders collaborating across sectors to address major societal challenges.
  • He is also the founder of ChristChurch London and has trained leaders worldwide as a speaker and leadership coach.
  • At Sagamore Institute, David works to expand FORUM in the United States through gatherings, retreats, and working groups that convene senior leaders to advance collaborative solutions.

David Stroud

Senior Fellow

Co-founder, FORUM

ALLIANCE FOR RESPONSIBLE CITIZENSHIP

Baroness Philippa Stroud serves as chief executive officer of the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship (ARC). ARC is an international movement with a vision for a better world where responsible citizens work together to bring flourishing and prosperity to their families, communities, and nations.

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FORUM

Forum, founded by Baroness Philippa Stroud and David Stroud, is a London-founded network that brings together transformational leaders from across sectors who are committed to using their influence for the common good. Forum creates trusted communities where senior leaders, emerging leaders, and culture-makers can learn from one another, engage across professional and cultural boundaries, and collaborate around the challenges facing society. Through its administration of Forum U.S., Sagamore helps extend this model of relationship-driven leadership into American cities while connecting Forum’s global community with leaders and ideas across the Atlantic. The partnership reflects Sagamore’s broader commitment to building networks that move beyond traditional sector and geographic boundaries to equip leaders to create positive change.

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US-UK DEFENSE ROUNDTABLE

Sagamore’s U.S.-UK Defense Roundtable brings together leaders from the United States and United Kingdom to strengthen transatlantic relationships and foster dialogue around shared defense and security challenges. The roundtable provides a trusted setting for senior military, government, business, and policy leaders to exchange perspectives, deepen strategic relationships, and explore opportunities for greater cooperation between the two nations. By creating space for candid conversation and sustained relationships, the roundtable helps identify practical opportunities to strengthen the U.S.-UK alliance and address emerging security challenges together. 

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COTSWOLD IMPACT FUND

The Cotswolds region is one of the most beautiful places on earth. More than 20 million visitors walk the cobblestone streets and a growing number of celebrities are turning centuries-old manors into vacation homes.

All this glamour and abundance makes the Cotswolds village of Kempsford a very unlikely food desert. With local housing 13 times higher than the national average, home ownership is increasingly out of reach and historic stone cottages come with high energy bills. The Cotswolds Impact Fund invests in solutions to these problems.

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CS LEWIS AND JRR TOLKIEN'S WARTIME FRIENDSHIP

Joseph Loconte’s work on C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien explores the remarkable friendship between two of the twentieth century’s most influential writers and the profound impact of war on their lives, faith, and imagination. In his New York Times bestselling A Hobbit, a Wardrobe, and a Great War, Loconte examines how Tolkien and Lewis’s experiences as soldiers in World War I helped shape their understanding of faith, friendship, heroism, and sacrifice. His follow-up, The War for Middle-earth, turns to the gathering storm of World War II, exploring how the two friends responded to the rise of totalitarianism and the crisis facing Western civilization, and how the conflict influenced works such as The Lord of the Rings, The Chronicles of Narnia, and Mere Christianity. Together, the books offer a compelling account of how Tolkien and Lewis drew upon friendship, Christian faith, and the power of imagination to confront the darkness of their age and articulate a vision of courage, virtue, and hope. 

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