Building trust to enable meaningful change

I work with leaders and their people to create the conditions where trust can grow, new ways of working can emerge and endure, and organisations are better equipped to thrive.

How I can help

Lean Change

I work with organisations – from start-ups to large corporates – to explore more effective, human ways of engaging with change. I work directly with the people impacted by change to co-create solutions, build shared understanding, and support change that people trust and sustain.

Change Communications

I work with senior leaders on major change programmes to develop clear communication and engagement approaches. I help create the conditions for trust by improving transparency, promoting shared understanding, and encouraging honest dialogue. I can do this as either a strategic advisor or as a one-man comms and engagement team.

Self-Organising

I work with founders and their leadership teams to help organisations grow without defaulting to a hierarchy that creates unhelpful power dynamics, and unnecessary bureaucracy. By clarifying roles, decision-making, and ways of working, I support the evolution of environments where trust increases and people can focus on doing their best work.

Men's Work

I work with men to explore healthier ways of showing up at work and as leaders. This work builds self-awareness and emotional maturity, which helps men trust their own authority and make decisions that benefit the teams and organisations they are part of.

Who I am

I listen carefully, get to the heart of what’s going on in the here and now, and work with people to solve problems that concern them most.

Sometimes that means offering a spark of creativity; at other times it means being pragmatic and getting things done. I like working hard, delivering tangible outcomes, and nudging the world in a better direction.

I’m not afraid of failure – I've learnt so much from it.

Who I'm not

I’m not a corporate careerist, though I understand how organisations work and why systems behave the way they do. I’ve never been motivated by climbing ladders, and the idea of retirement as non-work doesn’t appeal to me.

I live life knowing that I can't control what’s coming next. I think pretending otherwise can cause more problems than it solves. I try to remain curious, open, and able to adapt in a business world that’s constantly changing.

I believe people and organisations already hold the answers they need to grow and transform. Often, what’s needed is the right conditions for those answers to surface. What can look like resistance is usually an indication that something needs to be understood, not overcome. When that understanding is reached, trust grows, and change tends to follow organically.

Julian Sharples

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Julian fizzes with inspired creativity. Your business issue will spark a discussion that spins off in any number of surprising and useful directions before delivering the elegant insight or solution you need. Julian is a good listener, a perceptive lateral thinker and a charismatic, humorous presenter.

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