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

    How’s business?

    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 the lines of, “Are you alright? Or has the arrival of this small person so turned your world around that you no longer know which way is up?”  It was, I think now, really just a way of letting me know I was seen, that the boundaries of me hadn’t dissolved completely in the fog of milk and sleeplessness that so marks this period. But I never knew how to answer it. I didn’t have a baseline…

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    A bundle of all of the books discussed in this blog

    What I read on my holidays

    23 January 2022
    Child with face painted as zombie and t-shirt saying 'revive me'

    Rethinking Energy

    26 April 2021

    Rethinking Agility

    16 March 2021
  • Business writing,  Humanising business,  Organisational change,  Personal Reflections,  Storytelling

    I do, we do, you do, review …

    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, and besides, it was yesterday – already just a glimpse of a memory in the bottom of a dark stairwell. Swipe left and delete.  A notification from Uber: ‘Thanks for riding with Estefan. Please rate your trip. Please leave a tip. Please pay Estefan a compliment.’  Swipe up and ignore. An email from Amazon Marketplace: “Jenni Emery, did White Marshmallows Bulk Buy – 1 kg bag meet your expectations?” Nnnnggg – perhaps I’ll reply when my mouth isn’t…

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    A bundle of all of the books discussed in this blog

    What I read on my holidays

    23 January 2022

    Sometimes I don’t even know the question

    27 September 2021

    Did you imagine it would be this way forever?

    15 October 2021
  • Business writing,  Humanising business,  Leadership,  Organisational change,  Personal Reflections,  Purpose,  Storytelling

    Two Monsters

    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 David McKee and it’s about, well, two monsters.  The two monsters live on opposite sides of a mountain – one on the east side, and one on the west side. They have never met, but they can speak to each other through a hole in the mountain.  One evening, the sky is beautiful, and one monster shouts to the other through the hole,  ‘Look! Isn’t it beautiful! Day is departing.’ ‘Day departing?’ replies the other monster? ‘You…

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    Rethinking Simplicity

    25 March 2021

    How’s business?

    27 August 2019

    Rethinking Understanding

    22 March 2021
  • Business writing,  Humanising business,  Organisational change

    The Tough Question

    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 about why I wrote the book in the first place; perhaps that’s an article for another day. The tough one is the one I particularly want to tackle now, and the answer – or at least an attempt at one – is in a sense a companion to last week ‘s piece about how to keep people engaged in times of uncertainty. The tough question is, in a nutshell,  “Okay, all this stuff about authentic leadership and…

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    A bundle of all of the books discussed in this blog

    What I read on my holidays

    23 January 2022

    Taking my own medicine

    28 December 2019

    Lessons from a Friend

    03 January 2023
  • Leadership,  Organisational change,  Purpose

    How to Keep Your People Engaged in Times of Uncertainty

    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 nothing, ‘What’s your favourite feeling?’ We covered joy, laughter, cosiness, relief, gratitude … and then my thirteen year old son alighted on ‘Looking forward to something’.  That fluttering sensation in your stomach, the way the air feels like it’s buzzing, the sky a little brighter … the way you can be assailed with this feeling even if you momentarily can’t remember what it is you may be looking forward to … and how it’s such a close…

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    Beautiful and Terrible Things

    01 February 2020

    Herrings and peanuts

    19 February 2020
    Webb's first Deep Field (NIRCam Image)

    Great, make one!

    12 October 2022
  • Humanising business,  Personal Reflections,  Storytelling

    A celebration, a pause, and a lesson

    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 centre of attention, speaking in public, celebrating an achievement, and lots of people from different walks of life in one place … … and for every one of those self-same reasons, it proved to be one of the loveliest and most enriching evenings I’ve had in a very long time. There was deep and rich learning – it feels good to have been able to deliver 20 minutes of content, without notes, and with conviction. Another string…

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    Photo of three of my children sitting at the dining table, drawing pictures while blindfolded

    Rethinking Belonging

    04 March 2021

    China in your hand – five lessons in gratitude

    03 January 2022

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

    13 March 2019
  • Business writing

    Finding My Voice On The Page As a Female Business Author

    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 the rain lashing its way along the coast.

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    Rethinking Simplicity

    25 March 2021

    Ordinary Gorgons

    09 March 2020

    Rethinking Agility

    16 March 2021
  • Leadership,  Organisational change

    On Irish radio with Bobby Kerry

    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, though my knees were knocking afterwards! Look for the podcast “Leading for Organisational Change” on Newstalk’s iTunes page here.

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    Leaving things half done

    07 August 2021

    China in your hand – five lessons in gratitude

    03 January 2022
    Close up of small boy looking smug!

    Rethinking Confidence

    12 March 2021
  • Humanising business,  Leadership

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

    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 lead well in every scenario.

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    An island in an ocean full of change

    01 March 2021

    Leaving things half done

    07 August 2021

    Rethinking Simplicity

    25 March 2021
  • Organisational change,  Purpose

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

    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 we can see patterns and predict the future. We like to sense-make.

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    Did you imagine it would be this way forever?

    15 October 2021

    Herrings and peanuts

    19 February 2020

    Rethinking Understanding

    22 March 2021
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