Redundancy is one of life’s sharpest, ouchiest (real word) curveballs. Even when the rumours circulate or logic tells us “it could happen,” the moment itself still lands with weight. It interrupts our routines, our identity, our sense of stability. This five-step framework is designed to guide you from shock to clarity, from stuckness to forward motion, and ultimately to thriving again.

Change can come slowly and then suddenly, an (expected) announcement, a (rumoured) restructure, a (much talked about) takeover, and then you are in suspense as redundancy consultations that aren’t yet confirmed but loom in the air. It creates a space of liminality: that uncomfortable in-between where nothing is clear, emotions run high, and our minds race faster than facts can keep up.

You’re not “getting left behind” with AI. In moments of, what can feel like, revolutionary change, there is a swell of getting busier, ‘catching up’, chasing, getting ahead. But that can also cause burnout and overwhelm before we’ve even started. So how we can approach AI development with an open curiosity, to understand what it can really do, and contribute to the world, rather than join the 100m sprint into the land of ‘Who-Knows-Where’ (which should’ve been a land in the Never Ending Story but wasn’t).

You don’t need a big life event to activate your Change Mastery. We need these skills everyday: adjusting to a new routine, learning a skill, navigating a tough conversation. Each time you cycle through Pause, Mess, Play, Try, Restart, you build your capacity for change.

Change mastery doesn’t mean you’ll always find it easy. It means you’ll be better equipped to walk through the uncertainty with courage, curiosity, and intention.

Change is not waiting for us at the next closed door. Change is happening every day.

Leading change starts with you. When we talk about leading change at work, it's often about others: our team, our organisation, our stakeholders, our processes, the stuff that is changing. But leading change well has to start with ourselves. Quite often leaders skip this bit.

Children are trying to navigate change everyday. Friendship groups, family changes, new lessons, new school, new teachers, new body, new thoughts, new latest thing they all need! Using these steps might help to talk about it without the icky parent child conversation we sometimes end up having.