In this episode, Susanne talks to Steve Hearsum about his book, No Silver Bullet, and the unconscious patterns of shame and anxiety that drive leaders to seek a quick fix for complex problems.

Also, we discuss how consultants are very willing to collude with these unconscious behaviours.

We also talk about how to build change capability in organisations and challenge our own thinking as consultants, recognising how uncomfortable this can feel at times.

The ChangeStories podcast is for people who are interested in change, whether that is within organisations or for individuals.

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Hosted by Susanne Evans, an organisation change consultant, coach, trainer and researcher, each podcast episode features a conversation with a guest about their work to provide ideas and inspiration.

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To find out more about ChangeStories and Susanne’s work, go to www.feldsparconsulting.com or follow her on Twitter or Instagram (@feldsparconsult). Susanne is on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/susanneevans and her email address is susanne@feldsparconsulting.com

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Steve can be found here:

linkedin.com/in/stevehearsum

https://www.edgeandstretch.com/

In this episode, Susanne talks to Jennie Holyoake from Wellbalanced about how she uses numbers and data to tell the story of a business.

As well as sharing her own career story, we talk about the different activities involved in data storytelling and how she uses them with her clients.

Jennie also discusses the key aspects of financial data that all small business owners need to be familiar with in order to grow their businesses and achieve their goals.

In this episode, Susanne talks to Alison Jones from Practical Inspiration Publishing about the power of exploratory writing for sense making and transformation.

Alison shares her own story of discovery of its power and discusses how to use insightful questions and metaphors to prompt creativity.

She also shares tips and techniques for making exploratory writing a habit and Susanne shares her own discovery that she is able to be more creative on plain rather than lined paper!

Alison can be found here:

linkedin.com/in/the-alison-jones

https://alisonjones.com/

alison@alisonjones.com

https://extraordinarybusinessbooks.com/podcast-episodes/

https://practicalinspiration.com/