Fourdecadesacrosspeople,place,ideas,andtheworkofmakingthingshappen.

Chris Doyle has spent more than four decades working across communications, the outdoors, tourism, destination development, community, international collaboration, and now collaborative intelligence. Different settings, but a consistent thread: understanding what matters, connecting people and ideas, and helping promising possibilities move toward practical action.

Chris Doyle in a landscape setting during fieldwork

The Playgrounds

Six environments where the same pattern keeps showing up — not separate careers, but one recurring way of working.

Tourism & Destinations

Responsible and adventure tourism, emerging destinations, community-based approaches, and destination stewardship across the globe.

Outdoor Recreation & Industry

Human-powered recreation, outdoor retail, gear and apparel, brand, and the long-standing bridge between outdoor culture and tourism.

Communications & Narrative

Journalism, public relations, brand strategy, and translating complex ideas into language people actually use.

Convening & Community

Global summits, regional gatherings, facilitation, stakeholder alignment, and the networks where people learn together.

Innovation & Systems

Cross-sector experimentation, collaborative intelligence, AI, digital humanism, and the practical design of better coordination.

Regeneration & Stewardship

People-and-place relationships, ecological recovery, dark skies, rewilding, and reciprocal value.

Proof, Not Promises

Field-authenticated stories from four decades of work, drawn from the sourcebook rather than a highlight reel.

Facilitator working with a group of stakeholders outdoors

Adventure Travel World Summit

Convening the global adventure-tourism sector across years of gatherings, bringing destinations, operators, and development organizations into the same room.

AdventureNEXT & the Balkans

Regional cooperation work across the Balkans, connecting emerging destinations with the international adventure-travel community.

Outdoor & Brand Continuum

Years inside REI, Eddie Bauer, Altrec.com, and Tenson — living the retail, gear, and brand side of the outdoor world before carrying it into tourism.

Rwanda: Community-Centered Tourism

Work centered on community, arts, and culture in Rwanda's tourism development — tourism as a vehicle for local voice, not just visitation.

The Throughline

I've never worked particularly well inside neat boxes. Tourism led to communities. The outdoors led to stewardship. Communications led to convening. Technology led back to questions about people, ownership, relationships, and what intelligence is actually for. The connections have always been more interesting than the categories.

Chris Doyle

Chris sees relationships among people, ideas, places, sectors, and systems — helping people find common ground, turning complexity into something understandable, and pushing promising ideas toward practical action.

Currently: coOwn

Chris's career has long centered on collaboration, continuity, and turning good intent into coordinated action. coOwn gives that way of working a new infrastructure layer: knowledge that stays alive, relationships that retain context, and AI that supports human judgment rather than replacing it.

Much of what you're experiencing here is possible because CMD Inspired now operates on coOwn — collaborative intelligence infrastructure Chris has helped shape and now works on full-time.

In the Field

Nature, terrain, and lived observation — not lifestyle content, just where the thinking happens.

Hands holding freshly foraged chanterelle mushrooms in a forest