When the topic comes to ‘Change Management’,  it   is often the moment the room goes quiet. I see this repeatedly in my leadership coaching and training work.  The conversation starts engaged. Then this term is mentioned. Something shifts.  People don’t disengage, but they become careful.  This reaction is not surprising.  Problem: Change is announced late, and lived early In many organisations, change is not communicated when it starts forming. It is communicated once decisi

This week, while reading Designing Your Life further, one insight stayed with me: designing a life is not only about imagining multiple futures, but also about learning how to build them through real-world experiments, conversations and support.   It reminded me of my early days in architecture. Beautiful concepts meant nothing until we tested materials, gathered feedback and refined the design. The second half of the book makes the same point: a well-designed life is not sha

While sketching ideas in my notebook when I was reading our new selection in Book Insider Book Club  ‘Designing Your Life’; a thought landed with surprising clarity: we rarely design our lives the way an architect designs a space. We decorate , we adjust , we patch , but we rarely take a blank sheet and ask:  ' What if I could design my life again, how many versions could I create?’   Research from Stanford’s Life Design Lab and behaviour science shows that people stick to lo