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Writing on leadership, strategy and transformation.

Linen-bound editions of People at the Heart of Change and The Secret Life of a Consultant

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People at the Heart of Change

Strategies don’t fail on paper — they fail on the factory floor, in the contact centre, at the hospital nursing station, wherever the people meant to carry them out were never truly brought along. Drawing on decades inside boardrooms and back offices — not textbooks — Karen Thorpe-Reid introduces The Connection Bridge™: the conditions that turn organisational intent into genuine human commitment. For leaders ready to stop managing change at their people and start building it with them.

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The Secret Life of a Consultant

Every consultant has two scripts running at once — the polished one in the room, and the honest one in their head. This is the second one, finally spoken. A candid, wry look at the unwritten rules of client work: the diplomacy, the restraint, the moments textbooks never prepare you for.

Studio Editions

Quarterly reflections on leadership, strategy and transformation.

Four times a year, I step back from client work to write about what I’m actually seeing — the patterns that repeat across boardrooms, the assumptions worth challenging, the moments that quietly decide whether a transformation holds.

Each edition is tagged to the Connection Bridge™ condition it explores most closely — so you can go straight to what’s relevant to you.

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