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    • 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
    • Finding My Voice On The Page As a Female Business Author
    • On Irish radio with Bobby Kerry
    • The Soft Underbelly: Why showing your vulnerable side is critical for change leaders
    • Purpose over Process: How Your Gantt Chart Causes Damage During Periods of Change
    • And they all lived happily ever after: Why change leaders need to ditch process in favour of telling a good story
  • About Jen
    • Publications and appearances
  • About the book
    • Launch Party Photo Gallery
  • Posts
    • 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
    • Finding My Voice On The Page As a Female Business Author
    • On Irish radio with Bobby Kerry
    • The Soft Underbelly: Why showing your vulnerable side is critical for change leaders
    • Purpose over Process: How Your Gantt Chart Causes Damage During Periods of Change
    • And they all lived happily ever after: Why change leaders need to ditch process in favour of telling a good story

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Herring and Peanuts

Part three on leadership transition - why understanding is everything
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Beautiful and Terrible Things

Part 2 on leadership transition - on confidence, cairns and croissants
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Taking my own medicine

Part one on leadership transition - how to belong ...
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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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  • Leadership,  Organisational change

    On Irish radio with Bobby Kerry

    Jen Emery / 25 March 2019

    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 on my feet,…

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  • Humanising business,  Leadership

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

    Jen Emery / 13 March 2019

    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 to how to…

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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…

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  • 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

    Jen Emery / 13 March 2019

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

    Taking my own medicine

    Jen Emery / 28 December 2019

    My year of huge change and what it has taught me – a reflection in three parts Back in the spring, just after the clocks had changed, when the days were warming and…

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

    How’s business?

    Jen Emery / 27 August 2019

    One of the questions that I most hated when each of my children was very little was,  “Is (s)he a good baby?”  Such a sweet and well intentioned question, really meaning something along…

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  • Business writing,  Humanising business,  Organisational change,  Personal Reflections,  Storytelling

    I do, we do, you do, review …

    Jen Emery / 25 July 2019

    Do you? Review? I never used to.  You are inundated with requests, am I right? An email from Open Table: ‘How was Enoteca St Paul’s?’  Erm, fine thanks, I’d have said if it wasn’t,…

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

    Two Monsters

    Jen Emery / 20 July 2019

    When my eldest son was three years old, my brother bought him a book that had been one of his own favourites when he was younger. It’s a book called Two Monsters, by…

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  • Business writing,  Humanising business,  Organisational change

    The Tough Question

    Jen Emery / 17 May 2019

    In the few weeks since the publication of my book, I have been asked two questions in particular over and over again– a fun one, and a tough one. The fun question is…

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  • Leadership,  Organisational change,  Purpose

    How to Keep Your People Engaged in Times of Uncertainty

    Jen Emery / 07 May 2019

    We had one of those rare family evenings around the dinner table just recently when the bickering stopped and we had a ‘proper’ conversation. My ten year old daughter asked, apparently apropos of…

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  • Humanising business,  Personal Reflections,  Storytelling

    A celebration, a pause, and a lesson

    Jen Emery / 19 April 2019

    Almost three weeks ago, I had a party to celebrate the publication of my book. In lots of respects this was a counter-intuitive thing for me to do – it involved being the…

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