In the press
BBC World Service - The Conversation, 'Starting over after redundancy'
Companies around the world are making their employees redundant. But for Eleanor Tweddell and Dawn Kelly, losing their jobs was the best thing that ever happened to them. After being laid off in 2015, communication executive Dawn Kelly used her severance pay to open her own cafe, The Nourish Spot, in Queens, New York.
So You've Been Made Redundant. What Next?
Thanks to rolling global recessions, pandemics, inflation and a cost-of-living crisis, many employees will experience multiple redundancies before they're out of their twenties. Here, Vogue guides you on managing your head, heart and - let's face it - ego, after being made redundant.
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Guest podcasts
What I talk about - of course, happy to work with your brief, but here are some examples -
Fives steps to navigate the messiness of change to find joy and opportunity
How to thrive after losing your job
Why it’s important to develop your Change Mastery skills
Why we should embrace the messiness of change with more intention
Why it’s important to pause in moments of big change
The importance of play to find creative solutions to your problems
Why trying is the most rewarding rewarding act of success
How teams navigate change
The missing piece of most company / digital transformation programmes
How to write a book / create a course
How to start something new, from scratch
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Bio
“If we embrace the mess of change, and let go of the fear and resistance, we can discover a world of opportunity and joy on the other side of the door closing” eleanor
Eleanor Tweddell
Eleanor Tweddell is the author of Another Door Opens and founder of Another Door. Another Door is on a mission to change how we feel about change - to move from fear and resistance, to curiosity and opportunity.
Through the signature programme ‘Five Steps to Navigating Change’ Another Door helps people through the shock and feeling of being stuck, to a space of optimism and opportunity.
Eleanor coaches and mentors people to seize the moment of change and make it a new beginning, a new chapter, to start something new.
She helps people to discover their thing, develop their thing, create their thing.
As the author of Why losing your job could be the best thing that ever happens to you, published by Penguin Random House and Another Door Opens published by Bonnier, Eleanor supports people to embrace change. She also writes and talks about change and has been featured in Grazia, The Guardian, Wired magazine and British Vogue.
After 23 years of corporate life, in senior roles with great brands such as Whitbread, Costa Coffee, RAC, Virgin Atlantic and Vodafone, Eleanor decided to start her first business after being made redundant. Eleanor’s clients include BAFTA, Bristol Water, Channel 4, Trinity Mirror and Harvey Nichols.
Eleanor talks about “seeing change as opportunity, despite the fear” on her podcast, as a guest on podcasts, in the media and as a speaker.
You will mostly find her in the fells of the Lake District, where she embraces her rambling mind, “walking is where the ideas are found”.
