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  • About Jen
    • About Jen
    • Publications and appearances
  • About the book
    • The book
    • Launch Party Photo Gallery
  • Recent Posts
    • An island in an ocean full of change
    • Herrings and peanuts
    • Beautiful and Terrible Things
    • Taking my own medicine
    • How’s business?
    • I do, we do, you do, review …
    • Two Monsters
    • The Tough Question
    • How to Keep Your People Engaged in Times of Uncertainty
    • A celebration, a pause, and a lesson
  • Resources
    • Rethinking Change – Extra Resources
    • Psalm

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Organisational change, Purpose

Purpose over Process: How Your Gantt Chart Causes Damage During Periods of Change

Change is coming, everyone in your organisation can feel it and there’s a general undercurrent of unease. We are not creatures who like uncertainty. We’re programmed such that our brains…

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13 March 2019
Humanising business, Leadership

The Soft Underbelly: Why showing your vulnerable side is critical for change leaders

You would think, in our information age, with the depth and breadth of the research and thinking out there, that someone might have produced a blueprint – the definitive guide…

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13 March 2019
Organisational change, Purpose, Storytelling

And they all lived happily ever after: Why change leaders need to ditch process in favour of telling a good story

So, your organisation is facing change. You’re in charge. What is the first thing you’re going to turn to, to help everyone make it through?

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13 March 2019
Leadership, Organisational change

On Irish radio with Bobby Kerry

I was excited to make my live radio debut on Ireland’s Newstalk on Saturday. It was great fun to have a chance to talk about my book and to think…

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25 March 2019
Agility, Business writing, Humanising business, Leadership, Organisational change, Personal Reflections, Purpose, Storytelling

Rethinking Agility

My fifteen year old son is a goalkeeper. During lockdown, his training has been via zoom calls and has involved setting up ludicrous obstacle courses across the living room, so…

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16 March 2021
  • Humanising business,  Leadership,  Organisational change,  Personal Reflections,  Purpose,  Storytelling

    Rethinking Simplicity

    Jen Emery / 25 March 2021 / 0 Comments

    Blue anemones in a glass vase. A clear diary. A perfect story. A clear decision made. Do you find yourself craving simplicity in what feels like an airless and cluttered world? Does your…

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  • Humanising business,  Leadership,  Organisational change,  Personal Reflections,  Storytelling

    Rethinking Understanding

    Jen Emery / 22 March 2021

    Almost all of us have surely, over the past year, been sucked into the impossible game of ‘pandemic trumps’. Whose wifi is worst? Whose pet the most disruptive? Is it better to be…

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  • Agility,  Business writing,  Humanising business,  Leadership,  Organisational change,  Personal Reflections,  Purpose,  Storytelling

    Rethinking Agility

    Jen Emery / 16 March 2021 / 0 Comments

    My fifteen year old son is a goalkeeper. During lockdown, his training has been via zoom calls and has involved setting up ludicrous obstacle courses across the living room, so that he can…

    read more
  • Close up of small boy looking smug!
    Business writing,  Confidence,  Humanising business,  Leadership,  Organisational change,  Personal Reflections,  Purpose,  Storytelling,  Women

    Rethinking Confidence

    Jen Emery / 12 March 2021

    Some days I don’t have the first idea what I’m doing. I eat cake for breakfast and shout at the children, and my hair looks crap. Some days I look at the length…

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  • Close up of a lemon meringue pie
    Business writing,  Humanising business,  Leadership,  Organisational change,  Personal Reflections,  Purpose,  Storytelling

    Rethinking Evolution

    Jen Emery / 09 March 2021

    I have two daughters, aged 12 and 10, who like to define themselves as pretty much polar opposites of each other (though in truth, they are perhaps more similar than either of them…

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  • Photo of three of my children sitting at the dining table, drawing pictures while blindfolded
    Business writing,  Humanising business,  Leadership,  Organisational change,  Personal Reflections,  Purpose,  Storytelling

    Rethinking Belonging

    Jen Emery / 04 March 2021

    For the first time in my life, I saw the truth … that Love, Meaning and Connection are the ultimate and highest goal to which man can aspire –Viktor Frankl The first big…

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  • Business writing,  Humanising business,  Leadership,  Organisational change,  Personal Reflections,  Purpose

    An island in an ocean full of change

    Jen Emery / 01 March 2021

    There’s a George Ezra song, Pretty Shining People, that was released in March 2019, the same month my book was published, and, of course, several months before we had even heard of Covid…

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  • Personal Reflections,  Women

    Ordinary Gorgons

    Jen Emery / 09 March 2020

    A personal reflection on two women from my past who inspire my future for IWD 2020 At Arup, one of the things we’ve been doing to mark International Women’s Day this year is to share…

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  • Business writing

    Finding My Voice On The Page As a Female Business Author

    Jen Emery / 01 April 2019

    I finally found my loud, clear voice as a female leader in the summer of 2018, when I was all alone in a tiny holiday cottage on a remote bluff in Cornwall, watching…

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  • Organisational change,  Purpose

    Purpose over Process: How Your Gantt Chart Causes Damage During Periods of Change

    Jen Emery / 13 March 2019

    Change is coming, everyone in your organisation can feel it and there’s a general undercurrent of unease. We are not creatures who like uncertainty. We’re programmed such that our brains feel better when…

    read more
  • Business writing,  Humanising business,  Leadership,  Personal Reflections,  Storytelling

    Herrings and peanuts

    Jen Emery / 19 February 2020

    My year of huge change and what it has taught me – part three of a reflection in three parts. In this final part of a three part blog reflecting on my year…

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  • Business writing,  Confidence,  Humanising business,  Leadership,  Personal Reflections,  Purpose

    Beautiful and Terrible Things

    Jen Emery / 01 February 2020

    My year of huge change and what it has taught me – part two of a reflection in three parts. In part one of this blog on my first year in a new…

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