Kerry was interviewed for Culture Camp by Genevieve Lowles, who is brilliant at communicating the right thing at the right time - and who we knew would get to the core of Kerry’s thinking about culture!

Artefact: an object made by a human being, typically one of cultural or historical interest.

We create artefacts everyday.

They are made in the present, and left behind to guide, inform or help our future selves.

How can we use this most basic of resources, to coach a team or individual or even ourselves? Here are 5 ideas, all great in person or on zoom, that you can try with your team to get the creativity flowing and conversation started.

Workplaces with high levels of empathy, also have high levels of innovation -especially when empathy is a norm across all parts, teams and levels in an organisation.

What matters is that innovation is found in group action, rather than individual thinking, and empathy connects people to groups.

Brilliant work cultures are the holy grail of modern organisational development, so why do so many organisations face a culture crisis?

With the complexity of bringing together multiple people together, on and offline who are often tackling societal issues exacerbated by the health crisis, cultivating better cultures has to become a priority for the non-profit and public sectors.

I’ve had 21 coffee dates, in person and online and its been the richest, most fun experience! Ive had chats with dancers and doctors and conversations with community café owners and charities, discussing everything from wellbeing to Lego-play and moving cities to stand up comedy!

Here are 21 reflections and nuggets of good stuff that have given me a bigger, brighter view of the world as I develop Brilliant Thing.

Design thinking is a process, that moves thinking from challenge to solution. Through a series of creative structured activities, initial ideas become valuable innovations. In this short explanation with examples, you’ll learn how design thinking practices offer teams playful learning experiences that encourage connection and build trust.

A glimpse into a micro coaching practice. She showed me what ‘dropped’ beneath me, the deep roots I have that allow me to feel secure.

Then it was time for the rise.

Ive been untangling my thinking around scarcity, plenty, expectation and growthI have been invited to join Design Thinking Academy London as a coach and my May retreat launches next week. As my business surges forward, I have been deepening its roots and doing some mental work to ground success and support my own learning.

In moments of pause, inaction or recovery, the smallest of actions can contribute to a far bigger mission or purpose.

Design thinking encourages empathising with the people impacted by your work. But how can you really understand and empathise when you are creating your strategy alone?

Strategy is a boring and slightly scary word- ‘Applied imagination’ feels exciting and full of potential. ‘Visual sense-making’ evokes a practice of communicating what matters most and ‘everyday delights’ connects to the motivation needed to make things happen. What if we replaced strategic thinking planning and doing with these three pillars?

How identity and business align in systems inspired by nature, to make sense of complex issues like a companies culture, or to find meanings and connections within personal and work development.

For me, it started with a book.  I had already begun to work with a coach but at the time kept my work and personal worlds in different departments.  I was loaned a book which revealed that bringing the whole of me, into my work and life, with all my imperfections, was possible and a good thing!

And what have paper airplanes got to do with it? Collaborators are people who tackle, experiment and play with ideas to understand problems, explore challenges and create solutions, read on for my method!

When something turns out differently to your expectation, this tool can provide useful insight and ecourage action (rather than reaction). I applied it to my own thinking, when my webinars didn’t exactly go to plan…

How often have you put off decisions, changes or things you care about doing because you don’t have time?

Often procrastination is blamed but I have another, maybe more controversial view and an approach to create clarity.

You can create change and already have influence. Find one small thing you can influence, shape and innovate here first and ripples of change will emerge

Now feels like the time for depth, deep change. We soak up the culture of productivity, goal setting, achievement. Yet complex issues require depth, breadth and choices to enable deep-rooted change.

Changing your focus, the lens on your work, the place that you stand can help you create deeper, richer, more diverse ‘good’ work. Introducing human-centred design, and exploring how you can step into the heart of your work.