Gabriella Garnett
Gabriella is a researcher and practitioner with diverse interests, committed to integrating the fields of organisational psychology and applied neurosciences to shape business environments and practices to create conditions in which people can build strong relationships, do their best work, grow and achieve great things together. Her research focuses on exploring human experiences of emergent change in complex adaptive systems such as the workplace, from an applied neurosciences perspective. She is currently working as the Global Organisational Development Manager for Triggerise, a non-profit that uses innovative tech for good.
Topic: The Hidden Face of Change: Human Experiences of Emergent Change from an Applied Neurosciences Perspective
Abstract: Behind all changes in organisations, there are changers: The people implementing and impacted by change. The incremental impacts of emergent change on employees at work have been vastly underestimated, and underrepresented in literature, theory and traditional models of planned change. As a result, the impacts of these experiences on organisations have been too, with untold costs on human and business levels. It's time to shift the focus from all the changes to the changers themselves, and their experiences. Turning to applied neurosciences offers a unique, integrative lens to these questions, enabling us to reconceptualise emergent change, and how humans experience it. Significant findings from this research open doors to new approaches and to designing more brain-friendly workplaces and practices where our teams are empowered to learn, build resilience and strengthen relationships to face whatever may come their way - and to proactively drive change themselves.
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