Rachel Taylor
Narrative, editorial and communications strategist; multi-modal story experience designer; specialist editor and writer; regenerative practitioner; community activist
Background
Rachel’s practice moves between strategy and experience design, involving people in imaginings and makings of just and regenerative futures through impactful story experiences that re-pattern narratives and shift people’s beliefs about the world and their place in it.
Academically, Rachel’s background is in art and design, interweaving the study of semiotics, linguistics and narrative theory. Professionally, her background is in editorial, publishing and communications, including eight years as the managing editor of Another Escape, a publication championing outdoor lifestyle, environmental stewardship and regenerative living.
Today, she approaches her work as regenerative and systems change practice, supporting organisations on diverse projects as well as endeavouring experimental projects with creative collaborators through multi-modal transmedia design, symbiotic futuring, multi-sensorial relationality, and ecological weirdness and wonderfulness.
At the School of System Change
Rachel is a collaborative partner at the School, supporting with the editorial development of multimedia learning and teaching materials; tending an emergent storytelling approach rooted in systems change principles; and co-inquiring into the School's approach to narrative strategy for systems change and systemic storytelling. She's worked on projects that include Stepping Into Systems, Action Inquiry publication, the Systems Change Learning Handbook, and Case Studies: Stories of Systems Change. She is also a contributor on the Story, Narrative and Systems Learning & Practice Series in 2025.
"What excites me about the growing field of systems change practice is the invitation and possibilities of cultural transformation for thriving futures."
