In our first episode with an international guest, Dr Jen Frahm (from Melbourne, Australia), gives her amazing insights to change.  Jen is a highly experienced change practitioner (and Ph.D. Dr no less) and we learned so much from this conversation.  Jen talks about loving the messiness of change, why being a 'slashie' is so hard, her advice for new change practitioners and leaders and why she thinks, as change practitioners, we need to get better at sharing. If you do start sharing please @...

In this episode, I talk all things change and Thinking Environment with the glorious Sophie Stephenson. The Thinking Environment provides an experiential way of learning how to do the good thinking that leads to good doing.  About the Thinking Environment (taken from Sophie's website) "The Thinking Environment was originally conceived by Nancy Kline, Time to Think, who observed that ‘the quality of everything that we do depends on the quality of the thinking that we do first’.  Thinking...

In this episode, I chat with the amazing Kate Faragher. Kate is an actress by background but has ended up in the world of communications and entrepreneurship (starting her own nursery) and is currently writing a book.  We talk about energy and nudges and feedback. The impact of acting on Kate's work. Language and dialogue and more.  I LOVED this one. Kate is brilliant and I hope you seek her out for more of her brilliance.  You can find out more about Kate on Twitter...

In this episode, Hodan Noor, coach and change maker, talks honestly about her own personal journey through change and how this has shaped her approach to change in general. A key theme is about how important it is to really know ourselves before change can happen. To understand our stuff and how that impacts on the people around us and how vitally important managers can be to the success of their people, and therefore, change.  Our chat also highlights the importance of people having time...

In this episode, I have a heartfelt conversation with Gemma MacDonald, an independent change agent and all round brilliant human.  Through our conversation, we hear about Gemma's experience of change in the banking sector and in the NHS. We discuss the key themes she has seen and how we need to stop being so 'institutionalised' in our thinking about work, and therefore change. A key theme throughout is the importance of the individual and therefore the importance of good self-insight and...

In this episode I get to talk all things change, behaviour change and digital health apps with Liz Ashall-Payne. Liz is CEO and founder of ORCHA - The organisations for review of care and health apps -  www.orcha.co.uk I have learned so much on this podcast and it was a LOT of fun to do too. Apologies, we switched off all known technology but then got scuppered by a door bell and a landline so we stopped recording and I have had to merge the files in the middle. It doesn't detract from...

Hello and welcome to the first ever Creating Change podcast!Our first guest is Jill de Bene (@BeneJill) and she is awesome. Jill and I have worked together on and off for years and she is the person I have learned from the most. Jill is an amazing coach, boss, director and friend and I can't wait for you to hear her magic too.  In this episode we talk about how Jill ended up working in change, her experience of change programmes, her belief in storytelling and her own 'hobby', her blog,...