About John Higgins and Jennifer Bryan

Jennifer Bryan is a Director, published author, speaker and expert in the people side of leading change and has worked with nearly 40 different organisations across multiple industries. She has partnered with Henley Business School of Management and presented at Women in Technology, Association of Change Management Professionals Global Conference and World Institute of Action Learning Global Conference, to name a few. She has created a unique leading change framework, the ABChange Model, and uses her commercial insight to help lead people in change. Jennifer is author of Leading People in Change – A practical guide. John Higgins is a widely published researcher and writer about the overlooked and taken-for-granted in all aspects of organisational life. His work has appeared in the Harvard Business Review and the Sloan Management Review, as well as on the Brene Brown show. He can be found via www.johnhigginsresearch.com

Posts by John Higgins and Jennifer Bryan:

April 22, 2022

Hybrid working and how we escape the constraints of leadership

by John Higgins and Jennifer Bryan • Comment, Flexible working

Jennifer was at the ballet the other day, watching Acosta Danza, and there was a dance with ropes. In the movement of the relationship of the dancers, the mood, the emotion were all defined using the rope. It was very beautiful. Then towards the end the ropes were taken away and everything changed – the performers were liberated, unconstrained. At first like a frenzy, but then the dancers started to gel together letting go of the need for the rope. And this got her thinking about the role of constraint in leading change, especially in the new era of hybrid working. More →