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AFRAID NEW WORLD: The Hidden Pandemic

15 February 2021

Fear is a primal human emotion, born out of self-preservation, rooted deep in our cavemen brains. So how is fear felt, experienced and expressed in the modern world, in particular in the workplace?..

Making for Good— Starting at the End

9 February 2021

While the month of January has flown by faster than ever before, we’ve been busy working with the British Red Cross to craft a seamless journey for volunteers signing up to be part of the mass vaccination efforts...

Hooked on a Feeling

3 February 2021

Having worked in culture change and transformation for 10 years within businesses and as a consultant, I’ve seen and experienced warts and all, where cultures can positively and negatively affect people and their performance or motivation in their work...

Zoom n’ Doom — a.k.a. I’m sick of my face

27 January 2021

Somehow, it’s been almost a year since we collectively adopted a life of hermitude. In that time, we’ve Zoomed, Hung out, Teamed, muted, un-muted...

We’re Making for Good with the British Red Cross!

15 January 2021

Just before Christmas, we kicked off our Making for Good initiative; a pro bono project where we give back, lend our skills and expertise, and work with organisations who are doing great things...

Making for Good

18 November 2020

“&us — what’s that? Who are they? What do they do?” That’s a problem we’re trying to solve. How do we drive awareness, and show people what we’re capable of...

How We Came to Experiment with Fear

29 October 2020

I joined the &us team as a strategist in July to help with Project Fear, a piece of research looking at fear in the workplace and how it interacts with innovation...

We’ve Got the Fear

29 October 2020

For the past few months, we’ve been thinking deeply about fear. This year, it’s been hard not to. But recent developments aside, we are specifically interested in how fear manifests in the workplace, and how it interacts with innovation...

My FMCG Summer

14 September 2020

I’ve spent this strangest of summers back at my parent’s place in London, working as an intern with &us. My main focus has been developing an innovation process for teams to create a product or service in just one week...

Leading From the Front: 5 Brilliant Reasons Why Leaders Should Trust Their Teams and Get Out the Way

4 May 2020

We’ve learned a lot, these last few months. About ourselves, and our families; about what we define as ‘essential’, and we’ve learned a great deal about our leaders. This crisis has exposed the flaws of many organisations and leaders...

What Has to Happen for Innovation to Become Normal?

24 April 2020

If the job ‘head of innovation’ didn’t exist, because everybody was innovative-by-nature, then what would heads of innovation do? Where would they channel their bravery? What would they take risks on...

Top Tips and Tactics for Nurturing Kick-Ass Distributed Teams

17 February 2020

At &us we’re a little bit obsessed with what it takes to create the right environment and conditions for talented teams to unleash their potential to make great things...

Your ‘Big Bang’ Transformation Won’t Work

28 January 2020

Everywhere we turn, another organisation is on a mission to ‘transform’. To become more ‘digital’, more ‘agile’, more ‘customer centric’, etc...

5 Bold Moves

19 November 2019

There’s a lot of confusion about what 'agility' really is, and what it takes to do it right. Since the agile manifesto was launched, it’s built cult-like status amongst digital evangelists and whole industries have been created around maintaining its mystique...