Leading Through Uncertainty

Send us Fan Mail While some people thrive on uncertainty, for others it can lead to stress and overwhelm. Everyone’s limit is different based on how comfortable they are operating out of the comfort zone. It is also dependent on the volume of workload in any given moment. We have a psychological need for safety and uncertainty threatens that. Consideration must be given to what is a reasonable and...

Send us Fan Mail Jane Austin is the Head of HR for Wave, a start-up business in the utility industry. Jane has experienced huge uncertainty in the last 18 months as the business has undergone massive change. She shares her passion for engaging people emotionally, the importance of communication and how to do it when you legally can’t! I was inspired by Jane’s ability to balance her enthusiasm for...

Send us Fan Mail Paul is the former CEO of Birmingham international airport and is now a Non-executive director of five different organisations. Paul has such a breadth and depth of business knowledge, not just limited to the aviation industry. We covered so many topics from running an airport to Brexit and democracy, novel-writing, risk management, business growth, the importance of having a prof...

Send us Fan Mail In this podcast, Jude talks about the importance of emotions in business. She explores why we suppress them and how we can start to use them more skillfully as a source of information. We are emotional and intellectual beings. We have the capacity to both think and feel, and we are at our most effective when we bridge the gap between the two. Most people have developed the muscle...

Send us Fan Mail Martin Yardley is the Deputy Chief Executive of Coventry City Council and is Head of Place which covers anything from bins and potholes to strategic regeneration of the city. In the 9 years Martin has been in post, Coventry has seen massive change and business growth, and is unrecognisable from the concrete jungle that it once was. It may be down to him but he makes it clear that...

Send us Fan Mail Paul Faulkner is the CEO of Greater Birmingham Chamber of Commerce. As the UK’s second city, the Birmingham Chamber covers a huge area with 10 sub-divisions. With major business growth and the recently announced Commonwealth games coming to Birmingham in 2022, there is certainly a lot of change and uncertainty in the region. Paul seems to navigate it with apparent ease and talks a...

Send us Fan Mail Sue Grindrod is the CEO of Albert Dock in Liverpool. Sue is an advocate of being kind to yourself in the context of being realistic about what you can achieve. I think that’s laudable in a world of fast-paced change. It’s so easy to put ourselves under inordinate pressure. She talks a lot about balance – the balance between being a CEO and having a home life and interests outside...

Send us Fan Mail Nick Eastwood is the CEO and Deputy chair of WASPS rugby team. Nick has taken WASPS from a failing business in Buckinghamshire to a thriving business in Coventry in the heart of the Midlands. He talks openly about the challenge of making some tough decisions and the honesty required to engage people. From the moment I sat down with Nick, he showed such humility having overcome eno...

Send us Fan Mail In this podcast, I explore the role of emotions when leading through uncertainty. I explore how we suppress or explode our emotions and how we can use self-awareness to regulate them and use them skillfully as a source of information. I also share how the horses invoke emotions and how people can learn from that experience.  ©2018 Jude Jennison. All Rights Reserved.

Send us Fan Mail Sue Noyes is a non-exec director for multiple charities and the former CEO of the East Midlands Ambulance Service in the UK. In this podcast, Sue talks about the importance of operating according to a set of values. She explains that most challenges in organisations are due to the way people relate to each other and having values that the whole organisation work with, create a fou...

Send us Fan Mail In this short podcast, I explain why technology has an impact on uncertainty, the emotional challenges we face as a result and the need to embrace them as part of leadership. I also introduce why I work with a herd of horses to help senior leaders and executives lead through uncertainty, how the horses respond and why they create such great learning. ©2018 Jude Jennison. All Right...

Send us Fan Mail Elizabeth Cronin is the Director of the New York State Victim Services department. A former lawyer, her team provide support for victims of crime, anything from domestic violence to mass shootings or events like 9/11. She understands the challenges faced daily by her team in leading through uncertainty where anything can happen at any time without warning. There are lots of leader...

Send us Fan Mail Jude Jennison from Leaders by Nature explains the challenges we face when leading through uncertainty and sets the context for the Leading through uncertainty podcast series of interviews with business leaders. Jude provides strategic leadership solutions to large organisations as an author, speaker, executive coach and Horse Assisted Educator. ©2018 http://www.judejennison.com (J...