Welcome to the Notebook
A little over a year ago, my husband and I decided to follow a long-held dream. We packed up our lives, moved to Venice, and bought an apartment to renovate and call home.
Navigating local bureaucracy, project managing a full structural overhaul through the canals, and building a new life here has been an incredible adventure. But as an Organizational Change Management specialist, it has also been a massive live experiment in human adaptability.
This notebook is a space where I bridge those two worlds. It’s a collection of real-time reflections on community, resilience, and the art of managing transition—proving that whether you are navigating a blind Venetian canal or a complex global corporate restructuring, success always comes down to putting people first.
What Did the Romans Ever Do for Us?
Why do leaders micromanage under pressure? Explore how Stoic leadership, Mission Command, and managing executive anxiety can prevent corporate bottlenecks and empower your teams.
Churchill and the Art of Plain English
In August 1940, Winston Churchill banned corporate jargon across the British Civil Service. Eight decades later, enterprise communication is still smothered in woolly fluff. Here is why over-complicated language hurts execution, why true brevity takes serious effort and three practical rules to strip out management posture.
Bicycles on Trains: Why Enterprise L&D Is Failing Your People (and Your ROI)
Why passive PowerPoint broadcasts and abstract metaphors in enterprise training waste millions in digital transformation—and 3 principles to fix human adoption.
What Kind of Unkind God Designed the Bat? (And What It Means for Leadership)
What kind of unkind god designed the bat? Standing in the Somerset twilight watching Serotines swoop overhead, it’s easy to be amazed by these flying mammals—until you look closer at their awkward, backward-knee mechanics. Evolution never redesigns from scratch; it simply tweaks legacy structures to be "good enough to survive." Most organisations suffer from the exact same evolutionary debt, cluttering their workflows with "bat-wing" processes and awkward workarounds. Here is how leaders can spot vestigial baggage and build the psychological safety needed to prune it.
When the Noticeboard Goes Up in Flames
Why do expensive digital transformations fail? It’s rarely a glitch in the code—it’s the human adoption layer. Drawing on a memorable classroom science experiment, discover a 4-part OCM framework to align major tech rollouts with genuine organisational capability.