The art of growth and transformation

In 2023, after over ten years as a Change Manager, I decided to take a year off. While ostensibly helping corporate clients deliver successful change, I’d become increasingly demoralised, as programme after programme failed to achieve what it set out to do, and often left employees (and leaders) exhausted, burnt out, or ill.

I decided to explore why this was the case through writing a book about my experiences. The book is titled Change Sucks, which for most people it does. Unfortunately, not changing sucks even more. 

Change is now an inherent part of organisational life. I see the challenge as being to not only support leaders and employees through the discomfort and pain of change, but also to see it as an opportunity for personal and organisational development.

How I can help

To address this challenge, I now specialise in three areas:

• Lean Change: I work with forward-thinking organisations from start-ups to corporates, working with the people impacted by change to co-create and implement solutions.

• Self-organising: I work with start-up founders to discover how they can stay focused on what they’re good at and what they love as their company grows, without getting bogged down in bureaucracy and people management.

• Men’s work: I want to challenge the narrative of what it is to be a successful man in a work setting, and help men find healthier and more satisfying ways of fulfilling their roles, which are also beneficial to the organisation. The key to this is listening.