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 @ her at @JenFrahm and use our hashtag #CreatingChange

You can find more about Jen here;

For those working in change:

https://conversationsofchange.com.au/

 

For those leading change

https://drjenfrahm.com/

 

LinkedIn

 

LinkedIn company page

 

Facebook page

 

Twitter

 

Amazon for book

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 matters – it precedes, runs through and impacts on the things that matter most – our lives, families, friendships and relationships, our work and endeavours, the way we are with the world. It shapes the decisions we make and the things we surround ourselves with – ultimately, it creates our happiness.

If we want to make good decisions, solve problems creatively, innovate, communicate well, have good relationships, mediate our way through challenging situations, think about how we can solve our own problems as well as those facing the world, we need to think well individually and in groups."

Find out more about the Thinking Environment and Nancy Kline at: www.timetothink.com 

Find out more about Sophie via;

Twitter: @TheThinkingProj

https://www.thethinkingproject.co.uk/

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 @Kate_Faragher 

You can watch her TedX here > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vHuuiBH9T8

 

Other things referenced in the podcast =

The Element by Ken Robinson - http://sirkenrobinson.com/finding-your-element/

Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth & Happiness - Richard Thaler & Cass Sunstein - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nudge_(book)

Synthetron: www.synthetron.com

Silent Retreat: www.dipa.dhamma.org

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 to develop through coaching, learning and development and even more simply, time to reflect and answer key questions. 

The honesty and humility in this episode is exquisite. I can't wait to hear what you think. 

 

You can find out more about Hodan on Twitter @HodanNoor2 or find her on LinkedIn.

In this episode, I have a heartfelt conversation with Gemma McDonald, 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 mental health. We bond over both being seen as 'rebels' too.

She paints a bright future for change if we can just start getting into the depths of what it is all really about. 

You can find out more about Gemma and chat to her on Twitter @GemmaVMcd

She also mentions;

@EnergyProjectUk 

@SeaSaltLearning & @JulianStodd 

 

Apologies there may be some background rustling in this episode but it is hopefully easy to ignore with all the good stuff you will be hearing.

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 how ace it is though!

You can check out Liz @LizAshallPayne and Orcha @OrchaUK

 

Liz has kindly provided further information related to what we talked about below. 

 

Digital Health Schools - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rUlVkeXMq4&t=81s 

GPs talking about recommending apps - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VcuUAmbWt4 

Clinical Psychologist talking about recommending apps - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vf24LFIZ4s8&t=11s 

&

How to use Orcha - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWzmHf7AjOU 

 

Once again we would love to know what you think so please tweet me at @SarahBoydh and let me know!

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, Live Boldly (https://www.liveboldly.co.uk/).

I thoroughly enjoyed creating this episode and I hope you love listening to it just as much.  We would love your feedback so please comment below or let us know via Twitter @sarahboydh and @BeneJill.