Jen Emery

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

03 January 2022