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 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.