The plan is sound. Making it real is proving harder.
Leadership, culture, structure or communication aren’t moving with it.
Christine Narramore Independent Adviser
An independent perspective on the people part.
Where the plan
meets the people.
The messy human bit between what you want to happen and what actually happens.
That’s my territory.
Oeuf is where leaders bring the change, idea, plan or problem that looks sensible on paper — and feels rather different in real life.
Bring me the messy bitIndependent adviser · Sydney, Australia
The person behind Oeuf
Hi, I’m
Christine.
I work in the messy human bit between what you want to happen and what actually happens — the people, the culture, the change that looked simple in the deck.
I’ve spent my career working inside and alongside organisations in change, people and culture, leadership, communication and transformation.
That experience matters. But the value is not a list of roles or a wall of logos. It’s knowing what to notice, what to ask and when to say the thing that will help the work move.
Warm, insightful and refreshingly candid. Clear about what matters, thoughtful about how we get there, and never interested in making things more complicated than they need to be.
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You don’t always need a consultancy.
Sometimes you just need the right person.
Someone who can get underneath what’s really going on, question the assumptions and help you do something useful about it.
Before it becomes a thing
Run it
by me.
A thought. A problem. A niggling sense that something doesn’t add up.
Bring it early. I’ll help you test the thinking and work out whether it’s the idea, the execution or possibly not the problem at all.
You don’t need to diagnose it before you call. That’s part of the job.
The same problem keeps coming back.
Plenty of activity. Still, something isn’t shifting.
Your leaders are saying the right things.
People just aren’t feeling them.
Your team is too close to it.
Capable, busy and caught in the system. You need a clear outside view.
There may be a perfectly good reason everyone is avoiding the obvious.
We should probably talk about it.How I work
Sometimes it’s me.
Sometimes I bring people.
I’ve spent a long time finding, working with and quietly collecting brilliant people.
People who know their craft. People I trust. People who can walk into complexity without needing six weeks to understand the brief.
When the work needs more than me, I bring together exactly what it needs.
- No bench to feed.
- No predetermined team.
- No one learning on your dollar.
You get the right team.
Not the available team.
Confidentiality
You won’t find
names here.
Leaders sometimes need somewhere outside the system to think aloud. Good people can still be too close to see what is really happening.
Some executives never mention we’ve spoken. Others bring me into part of the work. Either way, it stays confidential.
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