Change is easy to announce and hard to do well. In our very first episode, hosts Matt Smith and Joe McGuinness sit down with Kate Collins – founder of Kate Collins Consultancy and former Chief Executive and Director of Fundraising at Teenage Cancer Trust – for an honest, insightful conversation about what it really takes to lead people through change.

After 16 years at TCT, Kate brings a rare blend of hard-won experience, radical honesty, and genuine warmth to one of the most searched-for yet least-talked-about topics in leadership: how to lead people through change – especially when they really don't want to go.

In this episode:

• The "hat, haircut and tattoo" framework – and why a decision that feels minor to you might feel life-changing to someone else
• Why resistance to change is healthy, and when the absence of it should worry you
• The crucial difference between transparency and full disclosure
• Why leading with compassion requires clarity – not softening the message
• The emotional cost of leadership, and why resilience and endurance are not the same thing
• Kate's two things to leave you with: change can't be managed, only navigated – and friction is feedback

Links & Resources

• Kate Collins Consulting: https://katecollins.org/ 
• Follow Kate on LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/in/katecollinsuk/
• THINK - our webiste - https://thinkcs.org/

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88% of transformational change projects fail, not because the strategy is wrong, but because the people delivering it are running on empty. In episode two, hosts Matt Smith and Jo McGuinness sit down with Janine Chandler, founder of Jump In Puddles, a certified B Corp and social purpose consultancy that uses the power of play, and Lego, to help organisations in the social impact sector create real, lasting breakthroughs.

Janine brings 30 years of experience in innovation and brand marketing and a distinctive, deeply human approach to one of the sector's most pressing challenges: what does it actually take to help people be change fit, not just change managed?

In this episode:

• Why 88% of transformational projects fail and why it's a people problem, not a strategy problem
• The difference between a team that's energised by purpose and one that's just going through the motions
• How Lego Serious Play works in practice and why it unlocks things that PowerPoint simply can't
• The five things every organisation needs in place for change to succeed
• What thriving actually looks like
• How to lead a team through redundancy

Links & Resources

• Jump In Puddles: https://jumpinpuddles.co.uk/
• Follow Janine on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/janinechandler/
• Unicef UK CEO Philip Goodwin's LinkedIn post on Lego Serious Play strategy: HERE
• Dorothy House Hospice Care: https://www.dorothyhouse.org.uk/
• THINK — our website: https://thinkcs.org/

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