Hilary Cottam

Hilary Cottam is a British innovator, author and social entrepreneur.

Cottam is the author of ''Radical Help: how we can remake the relationships between us and revolutionise the Welfare State''. The book has been described as "mind-shifting" and "[addressing] the questions we ought to be facing."

A thinker and innovator on the reform of the welfare state, Cottam has designed and led large scale systemic innovation projects focusing on employment, the prevention and management of chronic conditions, elder prison reform and family services. Working with communities across Britain and in Europe, Cottam has worked to collaboratively design approaches that have changed thousands of lives. Transformation is achieved through a model that emphasises human relationships supported by technology.

Cottam argues that we need a social revolution: deep socio-economic change driven by technology combined with the demand to address climate change, requires us to think, work and organise in radical new ways. Her writing and practical collaborations around the theme of a fifth Socialist Revolution are at the core of her [https://www.hilarycottam.com current work.]

Cottam is credited as a pioneer of social design and was named UK Designer of the Year in 2005 for her ground-breaking methodology which fuses anthropology, psychoanalysis, multi-level marketing, business tools and a design process. Provided by Wikipedia