Mac is the founder of Embercombe, a social enterprise that seeks to ‘inspire committed action towards a truly sustainable world’. Embercombe is located in a small 50 acre valley on the north-eastern edge of Dartmoor National Park in the south west of the UK. The funds to purchase Embercombe came to Mac in highly unusual circumstances.

In 1983 Mac was the gardener at a management training centre. By 1987 he was the Head of consultancy at the same place, and two years later had his own London based people and organisation development consultancy. This consultancy was later expanded into Russia and Poland.

Over a period of twenty years he was mentored and coached by Native American metis ‘Medicine’ people to learn the Earth Wisdom teachings that once informed the practice of our own British indigenous culture. Mac’s work with organisation leaders was motivated by his belief that it was in this arena that he could exercise his skills to greatest effect for the benefit of our Earth. He has shifted ground on this position. Embercombe is a place where human beings are gardened and cultivated – people of all kinds.