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.
The Weight of Enough
Arriving back in the UK with just a suitcase of bare essentials served as a quiet reminder: when you have enough, you realise how little you actually need. In corporate life, we often hoard projects, artificial urgency and perfectionism until we are carrying far too much weight. Drawing on agile Scrum principles—like the power of the Minimum Viable Product—this piece explores why "travelling light" is an essential leadership mindset and how letting go of 100% polish creates space for what truly matters.