Hello. I’m Belinda Gannaway, EX strategist, team coach. facilitator and trainer.
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About me
I work with teams and organisations small and large using a range of coaching, design thinking and facilitation techniques to supercharge culture change and transformation programmes.
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How it started
My interest in organisational culture is 1,000 years old. I became fascinated by organisational culture when I started working as a journalist in the Palace of Westminster (home of the UK’s Houses of Parliament) after my degree in politics and international relations. It was an extraordinary place to start work with layers of culture weaving their way through the institution.
From there I moved into business journalism – looking under the bonnet of a range of different organisations to see what was at play. Not content with looking, I moved into comms and from comms into the world of digital transformation, people and change. Getting my hands dirty.
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Where I’m at
I’m now an EX strategist and author, a facilitator and Organisational Relationship and Systems Coach. The book I co-authored – EX by Design; How to Create an Effective EX for Competitive Advantage – was published in 2021 with a second edition due in 2024.
Speaking
I speak on a range of topics to do with organisational culture and employee experience, including:
Purpose and values and the role of leadership
How to design and deliver a great employee experience
How to create and sustain the culture you need
How to create an organisation people queue up to join and never want to leave
How to create a great customer experience through a great employee experience
Design thinking and the employee experience
I have spoken at a wide variety of events in the UK and internationally, including:
Shift/HR Employee Experience Summit, 2023
HR Uncovered Bucharest, 2023
Shine People & Culture Summit 2022
Shift work Germany 2022
IRDG Design Thinking Ireland 2022
IOM Summit 2022
HR Week Conference 2021
Inspiring Workplaces 2021
CIPR Inside
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Facilitation and team coaching
• HR leadership retreat for a global NGO
• Purpose and values retreat for leadership team of a UK-based digital agency
• Leadership team purpose discovery sessions for a UK-based property business
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Training
• EX: Effective strategy, design and implementation, HRD Future, 2023
• EX by design open courses for 150+ people professionals 2021-2023
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What else
• CIPD Associate Trainer in employee experience
• Judge at the Employee Experience Awards 2021 and Internal Communication and Engagement Awards 2022
• Strategy lead on a global culture transformation programme that won the Grand Prix prize at the Internal Communication and Engagement Awards in 2021 and the Business Culture Leading with Purpose Award in 2021