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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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Humanising business, Leadership, Personal Reflections, Storytelling

Lessons from a Friend

In the middle of November, on a gentle grey day, just as the old year was starting to tire and fray, one of my dearest friends, Gregor Grant, died.  In…

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03 January 2023
Humanising business, Leadership, Personal Reflections, Uncategorised

Great, make one!

You know those pictures that circulate online of baking disasters? One went viral just recently, showing a horse cake that someone had made to mark the Queen’s funeral. Those pictures…

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12 October 2022
Humanising business, Leadership, Storytelling, Women

This Ramshackle House

I talk a lot about what it takes on a personal level to be a good and resourceful leader. About the disciplines and practices that we should pay attention to…

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06 March 2022
Business writing, Coaching, Humanising business, Personal Reflections, Purpose, Storytelling, Women

What I read on my holidays

When I was a kid, my nickname in my family was Johnny Number 5, after the robot in the 1988 movie Short Circuit who could read a book in seconds. My earliest…

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23 January 2022
Business writing, Humanising business, Personal Reflections, Storytelling

China in your hand – five lessons in gratitude

'Don't push too far your dreams are china in your hand....' sang Carol Decker of T'Pau in 1987, and I've been pushing to far ever since. But this year a…

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03 January 2022
  • 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 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…

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    Webb's first Deep Field (NIRCam Image)

    Great, make one!

    12 October 2022

    China in your hand – five lessons in gratitude

    03 January 2022

    Sometimes I don’t even know the question

    27 September 2021
  • 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, 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…

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    An island in an ocean full of change

    01 March 2021

    Ordinary Gorgons

    09 March 2020

    Herrings and peanuts

    19 February 2020
  • 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 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…

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    Rethinking Understanding

    22 March 2021
    Close up of small boy looking smug!

    Rethinking Confidence

    12 March 2021

    China in your hand – five lessons in gratitude

    03 January 2022
  • 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 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…

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

    13 March 2019

    How’s business?

    27 August 2019
    A bundle of all of the books discussed in this blog

    What I read on my holidays

    23 January 2022
  • 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 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…

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    Webb's first Deep Field (NIRCam Image)

    Great, make one!

    12 October 2022

    Ordinary Gorgons

    09 March 2020
    Close up of small boy looking smug!

    Rethinking Confidence

    12 March 2021
  • 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 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…

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

    13 March 2019

    Did you imagine it would be this way forever?

    15 October 2021

    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

    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 the rain lashing its way along the coast.

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    Did you imagine it would be this way forever?

    15 October 2021

    Ordinary Gorgons

    09 March 2020
    Webb's first Deep Field (NIRCam Image)

    Great, make one!

    12 October 2022
  • 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, though my knees were knocking afterwards! Look for the podcast “Leading for Organisational Change” on Newstalk’s iTunes page here.

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

    13 March 2019

    Sometimes I don’t even know the question

    27 September 2021
    Child with face painted as zombie and t-shirt saying 'revive me'

    Rethinking Energy

    26 April 2021
  • 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 lead well in every scenario.

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    An island in an ocean full of change

    01 March 2021

    How’s business?

    27 August 2019

    Taking my own medicine

    28 December 2019
  • 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 we can see patterns and predict the future. We like to sense-make.

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    On Irish radio with Bobby Kerry

    25 March 2019

    Herrings and peanuts

    19 February 2020

    Taking my own medicine

    28 December 2019
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